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Science Friday: The Virus in Your Genes
Many vertebrate species contain snippets of viral genetic code within their genomes -- and according to new research, it's not all from the likely suspects.
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Science Friday: Cyber Warfare
With the Stuxnet worm still affecting industrial systems around the world, some analysts are saying that the code may have been produced by a government. We'll talk about cyber warfare and computer security.
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Science Friday: Organism Captures Foreign Dna
Small freshwater invertebrates known as rotifers have the uncanny ability to capture bits of DNA from other organisms and assimilate that genetic code, scientists have found.