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06/08/2009

Brain scans start to probe what is different about criminal psychopaths; mice grown, egg-free, from single skin cells; the technology that makes remote-control war possible.

UK researchers have managed to scan the brains of a handful of criminal psychopaths, in an attempt to understand what makes their minds different.

Three research groups have managed to grow adult mice from re-programmed skin cells

As unmanned drones allow Nevada-based soldiers to fight remote war in Afghanistan, Quentin Cooper hears about the technological and ethical challenges.

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