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​DNA-disaster or medical miracle? Chinese researchers modify human genome

​DNA-disaster or medical miracle? Chinese researchers modify human genome

Greetings, ​DNA-disaster or medical miracle? Chinese researchers modify human genome For the first time ever, Chinese scientists report having successfully edited human embryos’ genomes. The breakthrough has, however, also revived…

Yale Engineers Design Metallic Glass Nanostructures of Tunable Shape

Yale Engineers Design Metallic Glass Nanostructures of Tunable Shape

Greetings, Yale Engineers Design Metallic Glass Nanostructures of Tunable Shape Metallic glass nanorods, shown here, are fabricated by sputtering, using a self-shadowing mechanism. A vast range of chemical compositions can…

New Research Shows Odor Receptors Do Much More Than Pick Up Scents

New Research Shows Odor Receptors Do Much More Than Pick Up Scents

Greetings, New Research Shows Odor Receptors Do Much More Than Pick Up Scents New olfactory sensory neurons (in green) begin to form the olfactory nerve (solid arrow) after three days.…

Two US police officers charged for hitting black men

Two US police officers charged for hitting black men

Greetings, Two US police officers charged for hitting black men Two US police officers have been charged with assaults after they beat two black men in two different states, authorities…

New Color Map of Ceres Reveals Surface Diversity

New Color Map of Ceres Reveals Surface Diversity

Greetings, New Color Map of Ceres Reveals Surface Diversity This map-projected view of Ceres was created from images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft during its initial approach to the dwarf…

3D Printing Accessibility is Key Solution for the Disabled

3D Printing Accessibility is Key Solution for the Disabled

Greetings, 3D Printing Accessibility is Key Solution for the Disabled by Brian Berletic 3D printers allow a nearly infinite number of designs to be made within its build area out…

Changsha research team develops brain-controlled robot

Changsha research team develops brain-controlled robot

Greetings, Changsha research team develops brain-controlled robot Researchers from the National University of Defense Technology in south-central Hunan province test the brain-controlled robot. (Internet photo) A Chinese research team has…

Mexican engineers find way to recover waste water in 2.5 minutes

Mexican engineers find way to recover waste water in 2.5 minutes

Greetings, Mexican engineers find way to recover waste water in 2.5 minutes A picture taken on March 1, 2015 shows the vice-chairman of the German aid group Sign of Hope,…

NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Views Ceres’ North Pole

NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Views Ceres’ North Pole

Greetings, NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Views Ceres’ North Pole This animation shows the north pole of dwarf planet Ceres as seen by the Dawn spacecraft on April 10, 2015. Dawn was…

Dark Energy Survey Reveals Detailed Guide to Spotting Dark Matter

Dark Energy Survey Reveals Detailed Guide to Spotting Dark Matter

Greetings, Dark Energy Survey Reveals Detailed Guide to Spotting Dark Matter This is the first Dark Energy Survey map to trace the detailed distribution of dark matter across a large…

NASA Supercomputer Simulation Shows Neutron Stars Ripping Each Other Apart to Form a Black Hole

NASA Supercomputer Simulation Shows Neutron Stars Ripping Each Other Apart to Form a Black Hole

Greetings, NASA Supercomputer Simulation Shows Neutron Stars Ripping Each Other Apart to Form a Black Hole A newly released video from NASA shows a pair of neutron stars colliding and…

Scientists in Poland working on liquid body armor, report says

Scientists in Poland working on liquid body armor, report says

Greetings, Scientists in Poland working on liquid body armor, report says File photo – Sets of U.S. body armor rest on the ground near Nasiriyah, Iraq Dec. 17, 2011. (REUTERS/Lucas…

NASA’s New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto

Greetings, NASA’s New Horizons Nears Historic Encounter with Pluto Artist’s concept of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015. In just…

Physicists Make Objects Invisible without Metamaterial Cloaking

Physicists Make Objects Invisible without Metamaterial Cloaking

Greetings, Physicists Make Objects Invisible without Metamaterial Cloaking   A team of physicists has managed to make homogenous cylindrical objects completely invisible in the microwave range without relying on metamaterial…

Synthetic muscle ready for launch

Synthetic muscle ready for launch

Greetings, Synthetic muscle ready for launch Lenore Rasmussen’s dream of developing a synthetic muscle that could be used to make better prosthetic limbs and more responsive robots will literally become…

New Wireless Sensor Detects Hazardous Chemicals or Food Spoilage

Greetings, New Wireless Sensor Detects Hazardous Chemicals or Food Spoilage The MIT researchers’ wireless chemical sensor. Researchers from MIT have developed a new wireless sensor that can transmit information on…

BLAST Delivers Large Particles Into Cells at High Speed

BLAST Delivers Large Particles Into Cells at High Speed

Greetings, BLAST Delivers Large Particles Into Cells at High Speed A newly developed device can deliver nanoparticles, enzymes, antibodies, bacteria and other “large-sized” cargo into mammalian cells at speeds up…

Baidu unveils projector you can wear on your finger

Baidu unveils projector you can wear on your finger

Greetings, Baidu unveils projector you can wear on your finger The DuRing projector in different colors. (Internet photo) Chinese internet giant Baidu has unveiled its self-designed smart hardware DuRing, a…

Mammoth step forward? Scientists splice Woolly DNA into elephant cells

Mammoth step forward? Scientists splice Woolly DNA into elephant cells

Greetings,   Mammoth step forward? Scientists splice Woolly DNA into elephant cells Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully inserting…

Scientists achieve precise synthetic gene manipulation

Scientists achieve precise synthetic gene manipulation

Greetings, Scientists achieve precise synthetic gene manipulation Researchers have gained control of gene activity through the synthetic creation of a key component of the epigenome that controls gene expression. The…

Hubble Reveals Phantom Objects Near Dead Quasars

Hubble Reveals Phantom Objects Near Dead Quasars

Greetings, Hubble Reveals Phantom Objects Near Dead Quasars These Hubble Space Telescope images reveal a set of bizarre, greenish looping, spiral, and braided shapes around eight active galaxies. The galaxies…

Bacteria power up by using magnets as batteries

Bacteria power up by using magnets as batteries

Greetings, Bacteria power up by using magnets as batteries It’s electrifying. Bacteria have been found growing on tiny particles of natural magnets. The bugs are a mixed colony, capable of…

Researchers Develop a Better Method for Making Perovskite Solar Cells

Researchers Develop a Better Method for Making Perovskite Solar Cells

Greetings, Researchers Develop a Better Method for Making Perovskite Solar Cells Perovskite solar cells could be a cheap, efficient alternative to silicon-based solar cells. A new technique can potentially mass-produce…

Black Hole ‘Wind’ Influences Evolution of Its Host Galaxy

Black Hole ‘Wind’ Influences Evolution of Its Host Galaxy

Greetings, Black Hole ‘Wind’ Influences Evolution of Its Host Galaxy This artist’s rendering shows a galaxy being cleared of interstellar gas, the building blocks of new stars. New X-ray observations…

Baby star before-and-after shows how it gets massive

Baby star before-and-after shows how it gets massive

Greetings, Baby star before-and-after shows how it gets massive The violent birth of massive stars has been captured for the first time in dramatic before-and-after images, which are already overturning…

U.S. firm develops glasses for colorblind, good for sports, children

U.S. firm develops glasses for colorblind, good for sports, children

Greetings, U.S. firm develops glasses for colorblind, good for sports, children A U.S. firm has given thousands of people their first look into the colors red and green by tricking…

New “Tandem” Solar Cell to Harnesses More Sunlight

New “Tandem” Solar Cell to Harnesses More Sunlight

Greetings, New “Tandem” Solar Cell to Harnesses More Sunlight Test sample of a monolithic perovskite-silicon multijunction solar cell produced by the MIT-Stanford University team. By combining two types of photovoltaic…

The first viable product made with ‘wonder material’ graphene is about to hit stores

Greetings, The first viable product made with ‘wonder material’ graphene is about to hit stores Business Insider By Kelly Dickerson (University of Manchester)Graphene co-discoverer Sir Kostya Novoselov (left) and British…

Mathematical Simulations Show Rocky Planets May Orbit Double Stars

Greetings, Mathematical Simulations Show Rocky Planets May Orbit Double Stars In this acrylic painting, University of Utah astrophysicist Ben Bromley envisions the view of a double sunset from an uninhabited…

Designer’s toolkit for dynamic DNA nanomachines: Arm-waving nanorobot signals new flexibility in DNA origami

Designer’s toolkit for dynamic DNA nanomachines: Arm-waving nanorobot signals new flexibility in DNA origami

Greetings, Designer’s toolkit for dynamic DNA nanomachines: Arm-waving nanorobot signals new flexibility in DNA origami This is an artist’s impression of shape-complementary DNA components that self-assemble into nanoscale machinery. Credit:…