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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
November 28, 2019
Swedish researchers developed a vaccine to prevent E. coli-related diarrhea, Australian scientists are leveraging “coral IVF” to help repair the Great Barrier Reef, and Japanese engineers designed a robot that can climb ladders. It’s a wide world of wonder in this week’s coolest scientific advances.
 
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
July 05, 2019

Swiss scientists are helping harness the excess heat generated by subway systems into usable energy, researchers in Washington are testing out technology for proto-telepathic communication, and a set of smart glasses under development at Stanford might work way better than progressive lenses for folks with age-related visual impairment. Get a glimpse of a fascinating future in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
April 26, 2019

Scientists found a way to translate brain signals into “synthetic speech,” doctors can detect ovarian tumors the size of a poppy seed, and researchers using one of the world’s fastest computers modeled a DNA sequence of more than a billion atoms. Oh, and FYI: the U.S. Navy received a patent for technology that seems fit for powering a UFO, or something that certainly looks like one. All that and more in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries!

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 22, 2019

Sneaky robots made Austrian bees talk to Swiss fish, a Japanese and Russian team revived a muscle cell from a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago, and a California Institute of Technology team has a design for spaceships powered by a light beam. This week’s column is truly illuminating.

 

Long Distance Call Of The Wild

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
January 27, 2018
Contact lenses tracked rabbits’ blood-glucose levels through their tears. A new drug silenced the “siren call” that helps cancers grow. And a carnivorous plant inspired a repellent to keep ship hulls free of gunk. We’ve got quite a haul this week, mateys. Anchors aweigh!
 

Sugar-Sensing Contacts

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

October 08, 2016
Catch some waves like a beaver. Cruise, nano-style, in a car made of molecules. Wander the universe with a runaway black hole the size of 100,000 suns. Or just sit back and relax to the sounds of nature’s jazz musicians. Is this the coolest list of the coolest things in science?
 

The Oscars For Science Nerds

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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth The Week

Tomas Kellner
September 16, 2016
Scientists at Duke University used an MRI scanner to read the minds of 32 human subjects, Department of Energy researchers reported on nanomaterials that could self-assemble into novel computer chips, and the Milky Way is bigger than we thought. Can you feel your brain expanding?
 

 

We Know What You Are Thinking
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IoT

Here's What Will Happen When 30 Billion Devices Are Connected To The Internet

Javier Garcia Martinez
July 18, 2016

Reaching everything from households to businesses, the Internet of Things is changing lifestyles and productivity. Scientists have just opened the doors to The Internet of Nano Things, where medicine and drug manufacturing are just the beginning.


 

 
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 10, 2016
We’ve had the data cloud for some time — now comes data slime. We learned this week that scientists at Harvard were able to store data in Escherichia coli bacteria. Elsewhere, researchers found a second layer of information hidden inside DNA, and Microsoft data scientists used online search logs to detect pancreatic cancer in some cases even before medical diagnosis.
 

 
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 06, 2016
In the summer of 1942, 10 months after they started, the engineers loaded the first pair of working jet engines, each producing 1,300 pounds of thrust, onto a railcar and shipped them to the Muroc Army Air Field, in California’s Mojave Desert. The aircraft designer Larry Bell was working in parallel with the GE team and building America’s first jet, the XP-59. On Oct. 2, 1942, the plane soared to 6,000 feet, a small first step for a technology that ended up shrinking the world.
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