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Wikipedia, China style
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/05/2017
» In China's new Wikipedia, only a small group of people picked by the govt will write articles to make sure everything "true" & say exactly what the govt wants.
Birth control for men: Works in monkeys, humans next
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/02/2017
» Search for long-term, reversible, non-surgical birth control for men to avoid side-effects that women suffer from birth control pills, coming soon.
The Virosphere: Welcome to this new expanding world
Jon Fernquest, Published on 28/11/2016
» Scientists have discovered 1,500 new viruses. Though very small & hard to see, viruses are everywhere.
Chinese scientists use DNA edited cells to fight cancer
Jon Fernquest, Published on 21/11/2016
» Biomedicine race between China & US looms as gene-editing to cure cancer draws near in Chinese clinical trial.
Healthy mice from lab-grown eggs
Jon Fernquest, Published on 18/10/2016
» Healthy mice produced from stem cells in the lab by Japanese scientists, a scientific first.
Nobel Economics Prize: Contract design
Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/10/2016
» Best employee contracts with pay based on performance, privatisation of govt run companies, insurance co-payments by insured, problems that Nobel Prize work this year sheds light on.
World's first 3-parent baby born
Jon Fernquest, Published on 28/09/2016
» Nucleus & DNA of mother's egg inserted into third-person donor egg. Three parents needed to avoid genetic disease.
Japanese electric cars coming to Thailand soon
Jon Fernquest, Published on 15/08/2016
» Four seat electric car running 100-150km per charge, up to six hours, with exports to ASEAN & Europe as well as sales in Thailand.
Angkor Wat lost cities uncovered by laser technology
Jon Fernquest, Published on 14/06/2016
» Huge lost city next to Angkor Wat in Cambodia revealed by new laser scanning land survey technology.
University killings and suicide: Motives revealed (UPDATE 4)
Jon Fernquest, Published on 20/05/2016
» FRI UPDATE: A suicide note and a police investigation reveal that the 60-year-old university lecturer who killed himself yesterday had a long set of grievances against the two lecturers he shot and killed the day before.