Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Wilmut and his colleagues managed to create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology as unsettling as it was startling. Unlike offspring produced in the usual fashion, Dolly does not merely take after her biological mother. She is a carbon copy, a laboratory counterfeit so exact that she is in essence her mother's identical twin...
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...
...magma rises in a volcano, light molecules like carbon dioxide bleed off more than heavier gases like sulfur dioxide. The higher the CO[2] levels, the likelier an eruption. If magma gets stuck in the gullet of the mountain, SO[2] predominates. The more SO[2], the more stagnant the magma and the less probable an eruption. The problem is that taking accurate measurements may require climbing almost directly into a volcano--a decidedly dangerous proposition...