Geneticist Craig Venter has synthesised a new organism by inserting synthetic DNA into a single cell bacterium, which passed on the synthetic DNA when it replicated into more cells.
Below are several videos following the creation of the synthetic organism, and several from before.
The makers of the Voyager Golden Record could not assume an alien would
understand minutes or seconds, so the playback speed engraved on its cover
is defined against a single, unchanging frequency of the hydrogen atom — a
clock written into the physics of the universe.
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The two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated
copper phonograph record. The record holds music, spoken greetings and
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