Over the past decade, cancer treatment has become increasingly sophisticated, harnessing a patient’s own immune system to fight tumors, or decoding the genome to figure out…
Cancer Treatment Would Be Even More Effective With 3D Tissue Modeling
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Bone Eating 'Zombie' Worm Has Been Around For 100 Million Years
When a whale dies in the ocean, its carcass sinks slowly to the seafloor, becoming a smorgasbord for many different kinds of marine creatures. One of the weirdest of these…
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Asparagus Delivery Drone Catches Fire In Netherlands
Drones offer a lot of potential for farmers, from shining lights on crops at night to better tracking just how well crops are growing. At an asparagus farm in the…
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How To Build A Soft Robot Hand
In the field of soft robotics, engineers use squishy materials to make robots durable, flexible, and safer to operate around humans. Now intrepid DIYers can also bring life…
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Scientists Find No Obvious Signs Of Life In 100,000 Galaxies
Just a week after NASA scientists announced their certainty of finding alien life within the next 20 years, a team of scientists say they've found no obvious signs of…
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This Photo Was Taken By A Camera That's Fully Powered By Light
That dreaded “low battery” warning on your digital camera may soon become a thing of the past. Several groups are trying to engineer cameras that are solar-powered, no…
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What Is A Gyrocopter And Why Did This Man Land One On The Capitol Lawn?
Earlier today, a postman from Ruskin, Florida, landed a gyrocopter on the east lawn of the United States Capitol building. Doug Hughesclaimed his flight was intended as a…
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YouTube Videos And Graffiti Help Monitor Water Levels In Saudi Arabia
In a country as dry as Saudi Arabia, cool watering holes are a big attraction--drawing in locals, their graffiti, and their cameras. The latter two might be an annoyance…
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An Ice-Proof Coating For Airplanes Based On A Frog's Skin
Konrad Rykaczewski, an assistant professor of engineering at Arizona State University, has strived for years to develop a better anti-icing solution for airplanes. His…
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Remote-Controlled People Stroll Through A Park For Science
Have you ever been walking down the street, minding your own business, when you suddenly run into a person, or a telephone pole? Maybe you were texting a friend or…
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How To Build A Soft Robot Hand
In the field of soft robotics, engineers use squishy materials to make robots durable, flexible, and safer to operate around humans. Now intrepid DIYers can also bring life…
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The Navy Wants Anti-Drone Lasers On Trucks
The Navy is building a system of trucks that will fight drones with lasers, and they’re advertising them with all the thrill and excitement of a second-quarter earnings…
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How It Works: The Large Hadron Collider
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), famously upended physics with the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson in 2012. But it was only operating at half power. Since then, the LHC has undergone a massive upgrade, and this spring, it will ramp back up for a second run at near full strength. For the next three years, more than 12,000 scientists will use the LHC to explore the deepest and weirdest questions in particle physics. What they will find--new particles, forces, or even dimensions--is anyone’s guess.
How It Works
1. Acceleration: The…
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Watch An Adorable Octopus Photographer In Action
Octopuses are already hailed as masters of escape and predictors of soccer matches, but now these brilliant creatures can add another talent to their resume:…
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Guy Plans To Live Inside Giant Orange Ball On Top Of Melting Iceberg
Alex Bellini is an explorer. He’s rowed a boat across the Atlantic Ocean, walked 1,200 miles across Alaska pulling a sled, and ran 2,300 miles across America. Next, he…
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Dawn Catches A Glimpse Of Ceres' North Pole
Out in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres is the largest unexplored rock in our solar system. The Dawn mission arrived in Ceres' orbit back in March, but we…
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NASA Tests Cartoonish Flying Wing Drone
NASA’s Multi-Utility Technology Testbed (MUTT) looks like a kid’s cartoon drawing of an airplane crossed with a stingray, and it comes with the appropriately pet-esque…
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How To Build A Soft Robot Hand
In the field of soft robotics, engineers use squishy materials to make robots durable, flexible, and safer to operate around humans. Now intrepid DIYers can also bring life to squishy machines: Last September, Harvard University published an open-access Soft Robotics Toolkit online.
Some of the materials and skills Harvard recommends may be beyond the reach of a typical garage roboticist. But with a little ingenuity, you can substitute cheaper parts and simpler techniques. This project makes actuated “fingers” out of ribbed hose from a cheap foot pump, long thin balloons (the type you can…
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Fans Gasp In Awe At New 'Star Wars' Trailer
Much like Darth Vader after his fateful fight against Obi Wan on Mustafar, Star Wars fans have been burnt before. The last time new live-action Star Wars films came back to…
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Our Modern Lifestyle May Be Destroying Microbiome Diversity
Deep in the Amazonian rainforest, the remote villages of the Yanomami represent some of the final holdouts against Western culture. Though the villagers spot helicopters…
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