From Elon Musk to MacGyver: The Tech Superheroes You Most Want to Be
• Wired.comKids often dream of donning a mask and matching cape and flying out into the night to save the world using their awesome superpowers.
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AT&T Labs Builds an Asthma-Trigger Detection Device
• Technologyreview.comThe chemical-sniffing setup will send data to the Web so doctors and patients can get a better sense of what causes attacks.
Citizen Drone Warfare - Dangerous Information
• youtubeCitizen Drone Warfare - Dangerous Information
Peru to reopen Antarctica research base
• upi.comPeruvian scientists are reopening their research base in Antarctica after a five-year hiatus, a spokesman for the Peruvian Foreign Ministry said.
New Imaging System Could Make America's Stealth Technology Obsolete
• Business InsiderThe stealth technology of America's fifth-generation jet fighters, the F-22 and the F-35, could be obsolete after a new discovery from the University of Rochester in New York.
Invisibility Cloak Allows Combat Vehicles To 'Disappear' And Change Shape
• Business InsiderBAE Systems ADAPTIV invisibility cloak is getting some new attention online today after the University of Rochester announced its new quantum imaging tech.
Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic]
• http://www.popsci.com, By Emily ElertGlobal patterns reveal the myth of a "disease of affluence"
Here's A Great Primer On How Your Brain Works
• Business InsiderIf I had been asked 15 years ago to write a short piece about what the different parts of the brain did, it would have been a fairly straightforward task.
Mind over matter helps paralysed woman control robotic arm
• http://www.guardian.co.uk, Ian SampleDoctors in Pittsburgh stunned at ability of patient who has reached levels of performance never seen before
Scorpion Protein Illuminates Brain Tumors for Surgeons
• Technologyreview.comA compound derived from a toxin from scorpion venom could help neurosurgeons differentiate between healthy and cancerous brain tissue.
Heart Health Eating
• arclein“We found similar associations in all regions of the world, in different countries with different levels of income," Dehghan said. Prevention
NASA using 3D laser printing to create complex rocket parts
• http://www.gizmag.com, By David SzondyNASA engineers are using a 3D laser printing system to produce intricate metal parts such as rocket engine components for its next-generation Space Launch System (SLS).
RSLSteeper launches third version of its bebionic myoelectric hand
• http://www.gizmag.com, By David SzondyNigel Ackland could be mistaken for a cyborg.
Norway Set To Test The 'Energy Source Of The Future'
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Lucas KawaThe Norwegian government, in concert with U.S.-based Westinghouse and Norway’s Thor Energy, is facilitating a trial of what could potentially be the energy source of the future: thorium.
Lignin Based Thermoplastics
• arcleinResearchers accomplished this by reconstructing larger lignin molecules either through a chemical reaction with formaldehyde or by washing with methanol. Through these simple chemical processes, they created a crosslinked rubber-like material that ca
Solving the riddle of the sands: Peru's Nazca lines is a 'labyrinth path to spiritual enligh
• Charles Walford, Mail OnlineProf Ruggles believes some of the Nazca Lines were in fact not created to be seen at all, but to be walked in single file as part of a spiritual ritual.
Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
• http://www.ted.com, TEDGlobal 2012Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness
Almost Half Fukushima Children Have Thyroid Disorders
• arcleinThe Fukushima reactors were designed by General Electric, and 23 reactors of the USA's 104 operating reactors are very similar to Fukushima's. Lately, awareness of nuclear power's pitfalls is growing and casting a shadow on nuclear power's illegi
Super Camies
• arcleinThey're so confident that they claim the only way to find a person hiding beneath the blanket is to literally "trip over them." CNN reports that the technology is passive, meaning that it doesn't generate power or an illusion of any sort, what
8 Videogames to Get Your Kid Into Engineering
• Wired.comIt's always hard to find ways to get your kids interested in science.
Magic Foam Can Be Shot Into The Body To Stop Major Bleeding
• popsci.comThe new DARPA-developed technology is aimed at buying soldiers enough time to get medical care.
R.I.P. Pixels?
• popsci.comGive the pixel five years, researchers say, and it'll be dead--cast aside for a vector format.
Science Can Now Turn Human Urine Into Brain Cells
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowChinese researchers have developed a new technique for isolating kidney cells from urine and turning them into neural progenitors. Not as gross as it sounds!
Genetic Researchers Grow A Fish That Has Legs
• http://www.popsci.com, By Emily ElertRecapitulating phylogeny in the lab
U.S. Spies See Superhumans, Instant Cities by 2030
• http://www.wired.com, By Noah Shachtman3-D printed organs. Brain chips providing superhuman abilities. Megacities, built from scratch.
New Microscopy Technique Gets Close Enough To See The Lengths Of Atomic Bonds
• http://www.popsci.com, By Amber WilliamsA one-atom-wide probe scans a molecule to get the view.
Shapeshifting Metamaterial Could Revolutionize How We Treat Wounds
• http://www.popsci.com,"When a drug can flow into a cavity then conform to the shape of the cavity and stay there, it offers unprecedented opportunities [in the] delivery of drugs."
Doctors Save A Little Girl's Life By Reprogramming The HIV Virus To Fight Cancer Cells
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Nicholas CarlsonDrug company Novartis is betting $20 million on a cancer treatment that seems to have saved a little girl's life, according to a report from The New York Times' Denise Grady.
Shapeshifting Metamaterial Could Revolutionize How We Treat Wounds
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow"When a drug can flow into a cavity then conform to the shape of the cavity and stay there, it offers unprecedented opportunities [in the] delivery of drugs."
Science Can Now Turn Human Urine Into Brain Cells
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowChinese researchers have developed a new technique for isolating kidney cells from urine and turning them into neural progenitors. Not as gross as it sounds!
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