Word: carbonization
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...human body, then we should examine the ultimate cloning possibility. Let's scrape the Shroud of Turin for whatever tiny bits of human matter may still cling to that cloth, clone the dna and find out if the Man of the Shroud was just some 14th century monk, as carbon dating apparently reveals, or if he really was the Son of God. Then perhaps we could see what Jesus Christ would do today. LARY S. LARSON Idaho Falls, Idaho...
...uncertainty has to do with the way comets are put together. They're basically chunks of ice--chiefly H2O with a fair amount of carbon dioxide and other frozen gases mixed in, plus a lot of sooty dust. Billions upon billions of comets orbit lazily out beyond Neptune--most of which we'll never even see. When one happens to fall in toward the sun, though, the ice begins to vaporize, surrounding the solid core with a hazy cloud of dusty...
Today, Cavanaugh and her 11 student research assistants--post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates--are pursuing several interrelated projects, including the diversity of symbiotes within the vents and the ecology of the carbon dioxide-fixing enzyme RuBisco...
People who assume that genes are us seem to think that if you reared your clone, you would experience a kind of mind meld--not quite a fusion of souls, maybe, but an uncanny empathy with your budding carbon copy. And certainly empathy would at times be intense. You might know exactly how nervous your frail, gawky clone felt before the high school prom or exactly how eager your attractive, athletic clone felt...
...Blue pauses to "think." Finally, its human monitor announces, "F4." F4? An excited buzz sweeps the room. F4! Deeper Blue has advanced the knight's pawn two squares, loosening its kingside defense with an assumption of the superiority of its position that would surely be considered arrogant if a carbon-based life-form were making it. "This move was special," murmurs Joel Benjamin, a former U.S. champion and current Deep Blue consultant. The room nods in agreement. Deeper Blue is thinking...