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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
July 08, 2016
This week we learned about a tiny robotic stingray bioengineered from rat heart muscle that can navigate an obstacle course, 3D-printed “micro-rockets” made from biodegradable silk that could one day target cancer in the body like a missile, and a programmable genetic vaccine against Ebola, malaria and the flu that can be made in just seven days and was 100 percent effective in tests in mice. Read on if you dare!
 

 
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 31, 2016
Scientists in the U.S. designed a living “minimally viable” synthetic species in a lab, their colleagues in Singapore  commandeered a beetle with electrodes and turned it into a cyborg, and a team in Scotland found sections of the human genome where changes in DNA can shorten life expectancy by as many as three years. Amateur astronomers also spotted a mystery object slamming into Jupiter. Read on.
 

 
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