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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
February 08, 2019

Brain cancer cells are being lured to their doom, artificial neural networks are functioning even more like human gray matter, and lab-grown chimpanzee “mini-brains” are enriching our understanding of human evolution. In this week’s coolest scientific discoveries, researchers have got a lot on their minds.

 

‘Tumor Monorail’ Gives Brain Cancer A One-Way Ticket

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
August 17, 2018
"Artificial intelligence can detect eye disease with the best of them (the best being trained doctors), a crucial protein could be leukemia’s Achilles’ heel, and disease treatment might be revolutionized by drugs that “silence” gene expression — the medical field is advancing by leaps and bounds in this week’s best scientific discoveries. Also, there’s ""weaponized slime"" against pirates.
 

 
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 12, 2018
Researchers in Berkeley are working on a way to implant and erase sensations in the brain with a holographic laser, engineers in Canada plan to use “spooky action at a distance” to sniff out planes and missiles invisible on radar, and a “stealth startup” near Boston is seeking to reverse aging in dogs and potentially humans. This weekly dose of science could have a lasting impact.
 

 

False Positive
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
April 20, 2018
Scientists grew “mini brains” inside rodent skulls, created a thin film that can reuse heat energy emanating from computers, engineered an enzyme that could help take care of plastic pollution and finally figured out how to shade contact lenses in sunlight. Just like our star, science has been shining exceptionally bright this week!
 

 

This Enzyme’s Hungry For Plastic
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
April 07, 2018
NASA is planning to bring a swarm or robotic Marsbees to the Red Planet, engineers in Berkeley figured out how to 3D print liquids inside liquids, their pals at USC developed retinal implants that could help us see better in our dotage, and MIT researchers have found a way to take the words right out of your mouth. This week’s developments leave us speechless.
 

The Shape Of Water

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 23, 2018
"Scientists in Canada found a way to decode what people see by monitoring their brain waves, their colleagues in Japan created a ghostly LED light the size of a lentil that floats through the air on ultrasound, and a team in the U.S. is learning from squids and octopuses how to build the perfect camouflage. But there's no place to hide from progress.
 

 

I See What You Are Thinking
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 16, 2018
"This week we saw a chimeric robot with a doglike body and a snakelike head break out of a Boston lab, learned about molecular machines that can be programmed to starve tumors of blood, and learned about a blood test that can help doctors detect concussion. All this progress makes us feel sanguine about science.
 

Who Let The Dogs Out?
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Valentine's Day

Don't You Want Me, Baby? This Brain Imaging Contest Can Show You the Love

Tomas Kellner
February 14, 2018
How deep is your love? Neuroscientist Melina Uncapher devised a system in her lab that can supply an answer.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
July 14, 2017
A team in Canada resurrected an extinct pox virus, Harvard researchers encoded a “short movie” into living bacteria, and scientists in California found a way to regenerate a rat brain with electricity. This is what we call brain power!
 

 

A Zombie Pox Virus
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The Lucky One: How Technology Helped This 15-Year-Old Woman Beat “Incurable” Brain Aneurysm

Laura Zarta
February 02, 2017
When 15-year-old Jessica Vargas from Cali, Colombia, started getting headaches two years ago, a brain scan told her family something they never wanted or expected to hear: Jessica had a large, complicated congenital aneurysm — a bulging blood vessel in her brain — on an artery that’s difficult to access.
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