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synthetic

[sin-thet-ik] / sɪnˈθɛt ɪk /


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Human-created cultural products like film and writing will be positioned as most valuable, and priced accordingly as luxury goods and artworks, while elevated synthetic content will be “humanwashed” to create a veneer of faux humanness.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We have a much better appreciation for how those subtle structural changes can significantly increase the synthetic challenge," says Mohammad Movassaghi, an MIT professor of chemistry.

From Science Daily

The model relies on one synthetic village, with fixed household sizes, workplaces and daily movement patterns.

From BBC

Cars will have to run on fully sustainable fuel, manufactured from biomass or synthetic industrial processes.

From BBC

Their approach uses "aptamers" -- short pieces of synthetic DNA that fold into three-dimensional structures.

From Science Daily