You haven’t seen any woolly mammoths hanging out around here lately, have you?
Woolly Mammoth Sightings – Are These Prehistoric Creatures Still Alive?
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Will Scientists Soon Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth?
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How would you feel about resurrecting a lost species? Say, the woolly mammoth? This large, hairy beast went extinct about 4,000 years ago, fairly recently in the grand scheme of things. It coexisted with humans before its final population died out in the Arctic Ocean, on Wrangel Island.
Top 5 Celebrity Time Travelers
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What’s the number one rule of time travel? Don’t ever let anyone take your picture! How many times do we have to go over this? Not taking the proper precautions during your impromptu time voyages could easily create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very …
Woman Sought To Be Surrogate For Neanderthal Clone
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Geneticist George Church wants to clone a Neanderthal. It’s not an easy process, and we’re not quite there yet (maybe within 50 years). But that isn’t stopping him from getting the word out. Namely, he’s looking for an “adventurous female human” to act as the cloned Neanderthal’s surrogate mother. Any takers?
Cloning And Immortality
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To some, cloning seems like one of our best hopes for immortality. The ability to create new copies of ourselves, to start over in a fresh body. But would it really be that simple? Even if we had the technology to create perfect human clones, and to transfer our memories into them, cloning for immortality …
Would You Upload Your Mind Into A Computer?
Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov wants to download human minds into immortal robots within the next decade. He’s hired 30 scientists to develop the necessary technologies, hoping to eventually create real-life “avatars.” Both projects are, naturally, named after the 2009 movie Avatar. Itskov also hopes to eventually transcend the physical and have human consciousness exist within …
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