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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Amy Kover
August 20, 2017
Bioprosthetic ovaries produced healthy offspring in mice, scientists are putting cigarette butts to good use, and a new study offers hope for faster Lyme disease diagnosis. Who says there is no cure for the summertime blues?
Tobacco Road Gets Cooler
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
August 11, 2017
Scientists in Washington State stashed a software virus inside a DNA strand and used it to hack a computer, their colleagues in Munich developed a material that can self-destruct and researchers at Rockefeller University created mutant ants that just “won’t fall in line.” We can sympathize with that.
 

Genetic Trojan Horse
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
August 04, 2017
A new digital bioprinting machine could one day replicate life across the galaxy, cicada wings could lead to a new generation of supermaterials, and scientists made a Skype call from a cellphone that doesn’t need a battery. Hey, future, are you listening?
 

Print Me Out, Scotty
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
July 28, 2017
A tough, new plastic could allow astronauts to 3D print satellites in space and launch them from the International Space Station, Australian researchers are developing a 3D-printable gel that can heal itself, and biomedical engineers created implantable liver “seeds” that sprouted into fully functional organs in mice. We can work with this material.
Ain’t That Tough Enough?
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5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
July 21, 2017
A team at MIT developed an AI system that looks at pictures of food and suggest recipes, a slithering robot from Stanford inspired by vines and fungi can squeeze into tight spaces, and spray-on sensors from Japan can monitor your vitals. It feels like the future is just a heartbeat away.
 

 

What’s Cooking?

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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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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 29, 2017
A real flying car landed at the Paris Air Show, Michelin unveiled a vision for 3D-printed tires you will never have to replace, and a team in North Carolina developed a smart patch that “harvests” body heat and turns it into electricity. What a powerful idea!
 

 

A Flying Car Arrives At Paris Air Show

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

June 23, 2017
This week, researchers unlocked the secrets of underwater stickiness by reverse-engineering octopus tentacles, mended broken bones with a pioneering new stem cell therapy and built a silicon chip that mimics the behavior of neurons to make deep-learning systems faster and more efficient.
 

Computer Chip Makes Deep-Learning Networks A Little Brighter
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

June 17, 2017
Space flight triggered amazing changes to a bunch of flatworms. Mosquitoes that carry life-threatening diseases may have met their match in a fungus engineered to sting like a scorpion. And a new drone can scoot around the world as well as any roach can. Nature has nothing on these creatures!
 

Out-Of-This-World-Worm Grows Two Heads
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 09, 2017
Engineers in the U.S. built a tiny cyber-backpack that allows them to control a dragonfly in flight, their colleagues at MIT equipped a robot with sensors that gave it a sense of touch and their colleagues in Rhode Island and China designed a heat-resistant ceramic that can be squished like a marshmallow but survive temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius. That’s hot!
 

 

Cyborg Dragonfly Takes Flight

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