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Why this brain flies on rat cunning - www.theage.com.au.

"It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening.

The "brain", grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida.

They hope their research into neural computation will help them develop sophisticated hybrid computers, with a thinking biological component." - Philip Sherwell

This also appeared on CNN.com here. Found via die puny humans.

Discovering the fabric of Life

News | Francis Crick, DNA pioneer and English gentleman, dies

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China Launches Its First Manned Space Mission

"If successful, the journey of the manned capsule would mark a great step for China in its goal to become a major space explorer for both military and civilian purposes. The space program also underscores China's desire to become recognized as an emerging great power. Chinese scientists have vowed recently that the country would send a rocket to the moon, establish a space station, ring the globe with high-precision satellites and explore the possibility of extracting the moon's mineral wealth, particularly helium-3, a potential energy source."