California's Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis
• http://www.scientificamerican.comThe problems are as much structural and systemic as they are natural
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Engineer creates origami battery, for five cents
• http://www.sciencedaily.comOrigami, the Japanese art of paper folding, can be used to create beautiful birds, frogs and other small sculptures. Now an engineer says the technique can be applied to building batteries, too.
Rapid Ebola diagnostic successful in field trial
• http://www.sciencedaily.comA new test can accurately diagnose Ebola virus disease within minutes, providing clinicians with crucial information for treating patients and containing outbreaks.
Lamb Genetically Modified with Jellyfish DNA Sold as Meat in France
• infowars.comSold it to an unnamed individual
Modern Medicine: Where Health Technology Stands in 2015
• motherboard.vice.com"The Living, Breathing 'Human on a Chip' Is Coming." Now there's a headline.
Engineers develop robotic micro-tentacles for delicate procedures
• http://www.geek.com, By Natalie ShoemakerThere's robotics and then there's microrobotics. The issue is when it comes to picking up objects "[most] robots use two fingers and to pick things up they have to squeeze."
Condom that Changes Color on Contact With STIs Invented by Teens
• popularliberty.comBritish teenagers have invented a 'smart' condom that changes color when it detects sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Silent and Deadly: Fatal Farts Immobilize Prey
• http://www.wired.comThe beautiful animal in the photo above is a Beaded Lacewing. While the adults are delicate and lovely, they begin life as ferocious tiny predators lurking in the nests of termites.
Mouse Senses Magnetic Fields Possibly via Quantum Processes
• http://www.scientificamerican.comSome organisms' internal compasses relay direction via magnetic iron crystals, but in wood mice and birds, a totally different compass seems to rely on quantum processes.
Energy Efficiency Efforts May Not Pay Off
• http://www.scientificamerican.comWeatherization and other energy efficiency efforts may not be worth the cost according to a new study
Medical marijuana 'edibles' mostly mislabeled: Many too weak, some surprisingly strong
• http://www.sciencedaily.comThe vast majority of edible cannabis products sold in a small sample of medical marijuana dispensaries carried labels that overstated or understated the amount of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a proof-of-concept study shows.
New high-strength steel could help automakers improve fuel efficiency
• http://www.sciencedaily.comA high-strength steel could help auto manufacturers in their quest to meet future fuel efficiency requirements.
3D printing adds a new dimension to medicine
• http://www.businessspectator.com,3D printing may one day make aspects of medicine a bit like car making, where custom-made parts to be used in surgery are received "just in time".
3D printing adds a new dimension to medicine
• http://www.businessspectator.com,3D printing may one day make aspects of medicine a bit like car making, where custom-made parts to be used in surgery are received "just in time".
3D bioprinter uses carbon nanotube enhanced cellulose
• http://www.nanowerk.com,A group of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first time with the help of a 3D-bioprinter.
Scientists Are Making Modern-Day Mummies in the Lab
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.comThe ancient Egyptian practice of preserving bodies through mummification is no longer the preferred method to pay homage to our dead, but it is still alive and well in research labs.
Generic heart disease medications offer promise for Ebola treatment
• http://www.sciencedaily.comGeneric medications used frequently in the management of heart disease patients also have the potential to bolster the immune systems of patients with Ebola virus and some other life-threatening illnesses, researchers report this week in mBio®, the
Robot controlled remotely with thoughts
• http://www.sciencedaily.comFor someone suffering from paralysis or limited mobility, visiting with other people is extremely difficult. Scientists have been working on a revolutionary brain-machine approach in order to restore a sense of independence to the disabled.
Russian official calls for US moon landing review
• http://www.redorbit.comA top Russian official is calling for an international investigation into NASA's Apollo lunar missions, arguing that the disappearance of the original footage of the moon landing and some 400 kilograms of lunar rocks is suspicious and worthy of an
Starfish Show Tracking Tags Who's Boss [Video]
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.coma Funny thing happened when two Danish college students injected tracking tags into starfish. The tracking tags kept mysteriously winding up on the bottom of the tank. The students – Trine Bottos Olsen and Frederik Ekholm Gaardsted Christensen -- t
The Volocopter Wants to Be Your Personal Flying Machine
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.comIf a quadcopter drone and helicopter somehow reproduced, the offspring would be a Volocopter.
Ceres Gets Weirder With More Bright Spots and Unexplained Pyramid
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.comIf you thought Ceres' spots were weird, wait until you see its mystifying pyramid.
Cocktail of common chemicals triggers cancer
• http://www.sciencedaily.comA global taskforce of 174 scientists from leading research centers across 28 countries studied the link between mixtures of commonly encountered chemicals and the development of cancer. The study selected 85 chemicals not considered carcinogenic to h
Climate change threatens to undermine the last half century of health gains
• http://www.sciencedaily.comThe threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global health, according to a major new Commission.
Latest EU Sentinel satellite to track global food crops
• http://www.bbc.comThe lead spacecraft in Europe's new multi-billion-euro Earth observation programme is set to go into orbit.
Japan is building huge floating solar power plants
• http://www.treehugger.comJapan has been working to shift more of its energy generation to renewable sources in the years since the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, aiming to double its renewable energy output by 2030.
Fabricating inexpensive, high-temp SQUIDs: Discovery paves way for new kinds of ...
• http://phys.orgsuperconducting electronics. Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors--materials discovered nearly 30 years ago that lose all resistance to electrici
This startup is looking to revolutionize lithium ion batteries
• https://fortune.com, by Katie FehrenbacherA new stealth startup with a very big idea for batteries has come out of stealth mode.
Scientists Plan Risky Move to Get Rosetta Spacecraft Nearer Comet
• http://www.voanews.comEuropean scientists are planning a risky maneuver to get their Rosetta spacecraft closer to the comet it is orbiting, so it can communicate with its robotic lander on the surface and start experiments that could unlock some of the universe's secrets.
An Ancient Remedy That's Better Than Modern Medicine
• http://www.thealternativedaily.comA surprising find in a thousand-year-old ancient text has led modern-day scientists to a real solution against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.
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