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Loving an Elevator
The Space Elevator has been a dream of scientists for centuries. A new design may finally make it a reality at least, by the next century.
NOTE FOR 2021 READERS: This is the 16th in a series of award-winning open letters to the next century, now just one generation away. Babies born this year in the U.S., and nearly 50 other countries, are expected to live to 2100 and beyond. These letters examine what the world could look like then and how we can make the best scenario happen.
Dear 22nd Century,
Are you loving the Elevator?
Not the ones in high-rise buildings, although I m sure plenty more of those exist in your time. Condensed city living makes environmental sense, as do vertical farms; stronger and lighter building materials mean more towers; the international competition for tallest skyscraper is unlikely to end any decade soon.
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DNA-matching to solve crimes an imperfect science DNA-matching may work to catch killers on TV crime shows like CSI but in reality, it’s an imperfect science we shouldn’t have blind faith in, says Andrew Rule.
Crime by Andrew Rule
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Subscriber only Catching crooks and killers became a lot easier when DNA-matching hit the courts. It was the greatest investigation breakthrough since law enforcement took up fingerprinting in the 1890s. It took about a decade before fingerprint evidence was used to decide a criminal trial but after that it rapidly became an investigation tool routinely used by police worldwide. Fingerprint techniques have, of course, been refined ever since.