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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
January 23, 2019

Tiny robots will repair Britain's sewer system, an algorithm helps digital cameras see around corners and a controversial gene therapy technique could change the game for infertile people. All that and more in this week's coolest scientific advances.

 

Three Genetic Parents And A Baby

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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
November 04, 2018
This week’s coolest scientific discoveries go to the stars and back, as scientists study the long-term effects of space flight on the human brain. They also used precisely targeted electrical charges to help paraplegic patients walk again. Plus: The rise of the machines continues apace.
 

 

Do Space Travelers Suffer Brain Drain?
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bioengineering

Going Viral: A New Kind Of Vaccine Could Change How We Fight Disease

Tomas Kellner
September 17, 2018
The province of North Kivu, in the northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been ravaged by war for much of the last two decades. But this summer, the nearly 6 million people who live there had to fight a new kind of vicious enemy — Ebola. As of Aug. 8, the World Health Organization had received reports of 44 cases, 17 of them confirmed, of this rare but deadly hemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
August 12, 2018
Airplanes are getting lighter (and higher), batteries are getting more sustainable, and aging is getting postponed — or might someday, at least. Physical improvement is at the heart of this week’s best scientific discoveries.
 

 

It’s A Bird. It’s A Plane. It’s A Supermaterial!
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
July 13, 2018
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Artificial intelligence is figuring out how to see through walls, predict human IQ, and clean up grainy pictures — with the help and input, of course, of some extremely savvy researchers. In this week’s coolest things, AI is advancing by leaps and bounds.

 

 

Berkeley Scientists Try On A New Pair Of Genes

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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 24, 2017
Scientists in San Diego are printing body parts, their peers in England are manufacturing blood, and a team in Wisconsin came up with eye gear that could give humans super color vision. Who needs rose-tinted glasses with results like these!
 

A New Kind Of Blue Gives Humans Super Color Vision
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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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