http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHFlwJQIkE The tangled highway of blood vessels that twists and turns inside our bodies, delivering essential nutrients and disposing of hazardous waste to keep our organs working properly has been a conundrum for scientists trying to make artificial vessels from scratch. Now a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has made headway in fabricating... Continue Reading →
Disposable bicycles are here
http://vimeo.com/37584656 He was told by three engineers such a feat would be impossible, but after his wife persuaded him, designer Giora Kariv got to work on a bicycle made out of cardboard that costs just $9 to manufacture. Kariv got inspired by the man who made a canoe out of cardboard, and combined his own... Continue Reading →
Nano Water Chip Could Make Desalination Affordable for Everyone
http://youtu.be/qNPRMb_rgw0 With freshwater declining throughout the globe, desalination looks increasingly attractive, but current technologies are expensive, demand far too much energy and are prone to contamination. Now researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Marburg in Germany have developed a “water chip” that creates a small electrical field that separates... Continue Reading →
Engineers Build World’s Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NkvH98yEE#t=54 Nanotechnology in medicine promises targeted drug delivery while not harming healthy cells. There are a variety of approaches to accomplishing this goal, one of which is a nanomotor. Nanomotors are devices that use energy to move, as opposed to nanoparticles, which typically rely on biochemical signaling. A team of researchers led by Emma Fan... Continue Reading →
Milky Way, Andromeda galaxies set to collide in giant game of space bumper cars
http://youtu.be/yuGY47T-Eyo A short time ago, in a galaxy very, very close by, a NASA satellite thought it detected a gamma ray burst in Andromeda. It was a false alarm, but astronomers used the opportunity as a reminder that our galaxy and Andromeda are set for a head-on collision. NASA’s Swift satellite discovers and measures gamma-ray... Continue Reading →
Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkxlBKjCoA0 In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute. It sounds weird and it is. The reason for wanting to hold light in its place (aside from... Continue Reading →
RESEARCHERS ADD NEW LETTERS TO LIFE’S GENETIC ALPHABET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7R_mzTVqOQ DNA isn’t just a blueprint that gathers dust once the building — you or me — is built. Rather, it is an active factory with assembly lines to run all the processes in our bodies, big and small, over the course of our lives. But why does the factory rely exclusively on four machines,... Continue Reading →
Scientists Use Lasers To Regrow Teeth From Stem Cells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOIBmcZkG6g Imagine if a trip to the dentist to treat a cavity didn’t involve a filling, root canal, or crown. What if a simple light treatment could actually get your teeth to regrow themselves using stem cells? That’s the aim of a group of researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, led by David Mooney, who have... Continue Reading →
Biodegradable Plastics From Waste Methane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB0i-D4wmZc Although an extremely useful material, plastic is an environmental disaster. It clogs up landfills, it litters our oceans and it can be harmful to various organisms. Developing biodegradable plastics that can be produced in a viable and sustainable manner has proved difficult in the past. But all may not be lost as scientists at... Continue Reading →
Brain-controlled flight is now possible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmIi49Ocjw Imagine this scenario: you step onto a plane and sit next to a pilot in the cockpit. There, the pilot has a funny-looking helmet strapped to his head. Although he never touches the controls, the plane begins take-off procedures and launches into the sky, where it proceeds to fly to its destination and eventually... Continue Reading →
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