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New type of soft and growing robot created
24/07/2017
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Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight cylinder. They place the device at the entrance of th...
Wearable Sensors Give Skin Space to Breathe
24/07/2017
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Wearable electronics are undergoing a renaissance, from big and bulky to sleek and ultra-thin. Traditional rigid electronics aren’t naturally compatible with soft human skin, and researchers and companies have been developing a suite of stretchable e...
Green method developed for making artificial spider silk
16/07/2017
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A team of architects and chemists from the University of Cambridge has designed super-stretchy and strong fibres which are almost entirely composed of water, and could be used to make textiles, sensors and other materials. The fibres, which resemble ...
Scientists Store Video Data in the DNA of Living Organisms
16/07/2017
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The bacteria E. coli might sometimes make us sick, but they have served as a workhorse in science. They teach us about DNA and produce ingredients for drugs and fuel molecules. Now E. coli can claim one more skill: They can store our digital data.In ...
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
16/07/2017
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An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. As the wavelength of an electron can be 100,000 times sorter than that of visible light photons, electrons microscopes have a higher resolvi...
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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions
10/03/2016
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The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...