Because it's a human invention, science - just like religion - will always be used for all kinds of purposes, good and bad.
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Ms. BLATTER: Well, we were all working separately - myself at Amnesty, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science - on the concept of bringing science and human rights together.
Unlike the popular human time-sink, this was all in the name of science: specifically, simulating the human brain.
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The story of Harold and Erica does not really illustrate a new, coherent, science-based theory of human nature.
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Michael Osterholm, of the University of Minnesota, and Donald Henderson, of the University of Pittsburgh, however, argue in Science that H5N1's human-fatality rate means any benefits that might flow from the research are dwarfed by the risks.
Some of Bush's closest advisers -- including Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson -- had urged him to allow broader funding of the controversial science.
Outstanding contribution to the application of Science and Technology to industry or to human well-being in a developing country.
But the sequencing of the human genome, an example of the power of industrial-scale science, inspired him, and he wanted to fund something similar.
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Ayse Saygin, professor at the University of California, San Diego, is using cutting-edge brain science to understand this strange quirk of human nature.
James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin, who co-wrote the paper in Science and created the first human embryonic stem cells a decade ago, said on a conference call that these new cells are going to be "very powerful" in testing new medicines.
The results were surprising, and may be disappointing for people who believe mothers and fathers should share equally in the caregiving for their children, said Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, co-author of the study and associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.
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After all, no question of morality seems to escape the attention of the lab-coat crowd these days, confident that science can unravel every human mystery.
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True to the title of the book, many of these have involved experiments that explore the limits of human ingenuity in realms such as private space flight, brain science and digital knowledge-gathering.
In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrow like an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.
"Titanic" director James Cameron hopes to show TV who's king with the Fox science-fiction drama "Dark Angel, " about a "genetically enhanced human prototype" who's on the run from her handlers.
The centre will integrate expertise in cell biology, mass spectrometry, proteomics, "big-data" analytics, drug discovery and computer science to exploit the potential of the human genome project for healthcare and the development of safer drugs.
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It will move the IL-12 drug and other cancer gene therapy approaches through human trials while Intrexon continues to work on basic science.
During a World Cafe at Planet Under Pressure, business leaders will call on the assembled scientists to re-direct their science to address the business problems their organizations face in tackling ecological degradation, human wellbeing, and food and energy security.
But while Mr Buchanan explains all this well, he also makes a sweeping claim: that human society too is an example of self-organised criticality, and that it is therefore possible to use science to explain the patterns of history.
In 2009, the RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human-Interactive Robot Research (RTC), a joint project established in 2007 and located at the Nagoya Science Park in central Japan, unveiled a robot called RIBA (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) designed to assist in this task.
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They want science-based and data-driven attempts to craft small-government, conservative solutions to human-caused global warming.
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But a greater recognition that finance is at its heart a social science, with all the uncertainty that marks human interactions, would, no doubt, make would-be financiers more humble, less dangerous, and, by extension, more useful.
It's the impact of a Health and Human Services Department that funds research by women like Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a biotechnology and life science pioneer -- (applause) -- who won the National Medal of Science in 2006.
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