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...y.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Themes : Technothriller : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/technothriller |acce ...comparable to science-fiction and many of the subcategories within science-fiction. The popularity of the genre had evolved significantly and it continues to ...

...d to be of material existence. In particular, [[abstraction]]s and [[legal fiction]]s are usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumpti ...to a specific pathological process. While a disease entity is not defined by a [[syndrome]], it may or may not be manifest in one or more particular syn ...

..., subcategories and related topics to science fiction|genre]] of [[science fiction]]. This conception has been widely used in [[mythology]] and in [[fiction]]. ...

...tle=On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures by G.W.F. Hegel|year=1997|publisher=Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.|location= ...g|thumb|left|200px|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has evolved from a fiction to a crowd-sourced web site (see ''[[Encyclopedic knowledge#External Source ...

...icles near the [[event horizon]] of a [[black hole]] has been hypothesized by physicist [[Stephen Hawking]] to be a mechanism for the eventual [[Hawking Determination of the value of G has been a topic of extensive research, with numerous experiments conducted over the years i ...

...ds can change the flow of time considerably. As depicted in many [[science fiction]] stories and movies (e.g. ''[[Déjà Vu (2006 film)|Déjà Vu]]''), a person t Some physicists claim that by using a [[wormhole]] to connect two regions of spacetime a person could the ...

...s=48–50|doi=10.1063/PT.3.2085|issn=0031-9228}}</ref> In 1999, it was noted by [[Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.]] that the book was widely adopted and has many ...n the legal situation.]]) The third edition, released in 2013, was written by David J. Morin for [[Cambridge University Press]] and included the adoption ...

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...of [[artificial intelligence]] research and a common topic among [[science fiction]] writers and [[futurist]]s. Artificial general intelligence is also referr ...a [[virtual reality]] or [[simulated reality|simulated world]], supported by an anatomic 3D body simulation model. Alternatively, the simulated mind cou ...

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...6|[[Basrelief]] sculpture "Research holding the torch of knowledge" (1896) by ''Olin Levi Warner''. [[Library of Congress]], Thomas Jefferson Building, i ...trolling sources of [[bias]] and error. These activities are characterized by accounting and controlling for biases. A research project may be an expansi ...

...equently cited as an example of the [[hydrogen safety|safety risks]] posed by hydrogen. The extremely high cost of helium (compared to hydrogen) has led ...ed it from the slow [[alpha decay]] of radioactive materials within Earth. By human standards, helium is a [[non-renewable resource]] that cannot be prac ...

...ne]] systems. MNT would involve combining physical principles demonstrated by [[biophysics]], [[chemistry]], other nanotechnologies, and the [[Biological ...rientations to obtain desired chemical reactions and then to build systems by further assembling the products of these reactions. ...

{{About|the genre of fiction and associated subculture}} {{short description|Science fiction genre inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery}} ...

...mathematician [[John von Neumann]].<ref>''The Technological Singularity'' by Murray Shanahan, (MIT Press, 2015), p. 233.</ref> [[Stanislaw Ulam]] report ...weil]]'s 2005 book ''[[The Singularity Is Near]]'', predicting singularity by 2045.<ref name="chalmers2010"/> ...

...ectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the [[human condition]] by developing and making widely available sophisticated [[technologies]] that Another topic of transhumanist research is how to protect humanity against [[existential ...

...rst= Michael |title= ''Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics, and the Work of Fiction'' |publisher= Wiley-Blackwell |year= 1999 |isbn= 978-0-7456-0850-1 |page= 5 ...940. "σημειωτικός." ''[[A Greek-English Lexicon]]''. Revised and augmented by H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie. Oxford: [[Clarendon Press]]. Available via ''[ ...

...skills and works of skill, or, if one prefers, the science of things made by man's labour, chiefly through the use of his hands.'"</ref><ref>{{cite book ...during [[Prehistory|prehistoric times]], followed by the [[Control of fire by early humans|control of fire]], which contributed to the [[Brain size|growt ...

...tities]]. The SI base [[unit of time]] is the [[second]], which is defined by measuring the [[electronic transition]] [[frequency]] of [[caesium]] atoms. ...reliably recorded speed at which a baseball has been pitched is 100.9 mph by Lynn Nolan Ryan (California Angels) at Anaheim Stadium in California on 20 ...

...al introduction to the topic of genetics|Introduction to genetics|the song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark|Genetic Engineering (song)|the Montreal h ...nism. The first recombinant DNA molecule was made by [[Paul Berg]] in 1972 by combining DNA from the monkey virus [[SV40]] with the [[Lambda phage|lambda ...