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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
November 04, 2019
Robotics experts built smart blocks that can move and communicate like a swarm of insects, a new development in battery technology could help electric vehicles recharge in the time it takes to get a bag of chips from the gas station, and Russian researchers used artificial intelligence to translate brain waves into images. It doesn’t take a mind reader, though, to enjoy this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.
  
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
October 25, 2019
"Small swarming drones could assist in search-and-rescue operations, researchers find links between gut bacteria and brain disease, and rats can be trained to drive tiny cars — in fact, they prefer driving themselves rather than being passengers in tiny rat taxi cabs. In this week’s coolest scientific discoveries, it’s the little things that count.
  

Swarm Thoughts
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The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Sam Worley
October 20, 2019
A robot hand that can solve a Rubik’s Cube, artificial embryos grown in the lab, a “bizarre, brainless blob” that can heal itself and has a fondness for oatmeal — oh, and there’s persuasive evidence for life on Mars. In this week’s coolest scientific discoveries, the hills are alive with all sorts of weird stuff.
 

 

Give A Hand To Artificial Intelligence

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week  

Sam Worley
October 14, 2019
A U.S. Navy engineer filed an intriguing patent for energy’s holy grail, a compact nuclear fusion reactor; the world’s largest 3D printer produced — what else? — the world’s largest 3D-printed object; and a lab in San Diego is building a better, softer robot. Here are this week’s coolest scientific advances.
  

Energy’s Holy Grail
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
October 07, 2019
Japanese researchers developed artificial blood that could be transfused into patients regardless of their blood type, British scientists used artificial intelligence to predict heart attacks, and a lab at the University of California, Berkeley, has genetically engineered fruit flies to induce vomiting if they’re eaten. But don’t worry: This week’s coolest scientific discoveries are a real treat!
 

True Blood? Hardly
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
September 29, 2019
"A new artificial skin from Switzerland is soft, sensitive and stretchy, an Australian lab is developing a patch that could grow replacement heart tissue, and researchers in the U.K. are using a rare and ancient element to kill tumors. Scientists are casting their nets far and wide in this week’s coolest discoveries.
 

Artificial Skin So Soft
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
September 20, 2019
Artificial intelligence could help seismologists predict earthquakes, a new type of drug could flush aging cells from the body, and researchers introduced a robot that’s made of ... smaller robots. Similarly, this week’s roundup of cool scientific discoveries is way more than the sum of its parts.
 

AI Keeps An Ear To The Ground
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 14, 2019
Doctors in London used stem cells to make an Englishman see again, new AI can sniff out heart disease from just one heartbeat, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers stumbled on the blackest material to date and used it hide a 16-carat diamond. Here’s our weekly haul of scientific wonders.
 

Coming Out Of His Cell
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
September 09, 2019
Artificial intelligence could help speed the drug-development process, researchers came up with an answer to a stem-cell riddle, and scientists in China designed a gel that could spur the regeneration of tooth enamel, giving hope to candy enthusiasts and coffee drinkers everywhere. Take a bite out of the future — confidently! — with this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.
 

Faster, GENTLR Drug Development

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
September 03, 2019
The supermaterial graphene could provide a chemical-free approach to mosquito-bite prevention, call center employees are being coached by artificial intelligence, and some mice in Massachusetts gained the ability to see in the dark — and so, someday, could humans. You don’t need superhero powers to navigate through this week’s coolest scientific discoveries, though.
 

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