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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 19, 2018
Scientists in Pennsylvania are planning to re-engineer human immune cells to sniff out and kill cancer, a drone saved swimmers caught in rough surf in Australia, and an AI robot assistant in England found a new way to fight malaria — in toothpaste. Time to brush up on these and other remarkable developments we discovered this week.
 

 

Editing Out Cancer
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 12, 2018
"Scientists at Duke University flexed human muscles grown from stem cells for the first time, a thumbnail-sized sensor connected to a smartphone app can track your sun exposure, and another device can sniff out counterfeit homebrew in your expensive drink. Here’s a toast to science.
 

 

Bioengineering Is Flexing Muscles

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
Carlos Haertel
January 05, 2018
"A robot in California is acting like a total baby, researchers in the U.K. smuggled a tumor-tracing virus into patients’ brains, and plants in Australia are breeding like rabbits. We’d say 2018 is off to a promising start.
 

Going Viral
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
December 23, 2017
A Ukrainian startup is 3D-printing tiny homes, Israeli researchers helped paralyzed rats walk again and engineers in Japan built a robot that rolls — or rather crawls — with the punches. We find all this progress deeply moving, don’t you?
 

Robot Carpenters

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
December 15, 2017
A musician who lost an arm played the piano again thanks to a special prosthesis, new muscles allowed robots to lift as much as 1,000 times their own weight, and glowing trees could one day illuminate our streets. This week, the future seems especially bright!
 

Player Piano 2.0

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Maggie Sieger
December 09, 2017
NASA scientists reinvented the wheel in preparation for further space exploration, a woman who was born without a womb delivered a healthy baby, and lab-grown patches are keeping mouse and rat hearts beating. We’re pumped — are you?
 

Springy Tires For Mars

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Maggie Sieger
December 02, 2017
Scientists in Canada found a way to spot tornadoes before they form, their colleagues in the U.K built a living “solar” cell that can generate an electric current both in the dark and in response to light, and researchers in New York hacked the immune system of a bacteria and turned it into a microscopic data recorder.
Tornado Detection
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2017
This week we watched a robot do a backflip, marveled about an implantable device that can help the brain form memories, and learned about an X-ray-reading AI that outperformed Stanford doctors in diagnosing pneumonia. We are starting to feel sorry for sci-fi writers.
 

 

Brain Memory Implants
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
November 07, 2017
An origami-inspired cage could lead to safer drones, gene therapy gives a 7-year-old boy life-saving new skin, and machine learning could help doctors identify patients at risk of suicide. Another week, another set of inspiring stories about science making the world a better place.
 

A Drone In A Cage

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The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
November 03, 2017
Breaking news about smartphone screens, programmable virus-like particles that doctors could one day use to fight disease, and clothes with memory — if this week's roundup of discoveries is any indication, science is clearly in fashion.
 

No Chip on Their Shoulder

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