A global race is under way to reach the next milestone in the performance of supercomputers, many times faster than today’s most powerful machines.

An experimental therapy that uses skin cells grown from an aborted fetus successfully healed severe burns in eight children, sparing them the need for skin grafts.

Last month, just before the space shuttle fleet was grounded once again over safety concerns, NASA awarded two $28 million contracts to produce paper studies for a replacement vehicle.

A Malaysian woman who said she was subjected to sex up to 35 times a week spiked her New Zealand fiance’s drinks to “slow him down,” a court has been told.

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A survey reported Tuesday that nearly half of all Mexicans would like to live in the United States and that the sentiment seemed as strong among Mexico’s college-educated middle class as the poor.

Prominent ecologists are floating an audacious plan that sounds like a Jumanji sequel – transplant African wildlife to the Great Plains of North America.

Michael Ellison has a dream: to reconstruct a living thing inside a computer, down to every last molecule. It is, he said, “the ultimate goal in biology to be able to do this.”

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