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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2017
Synthetic biologists at Boston University hacked human cells and made them add and subtract numbers, their peers at MIT bioprinted a bacteria-ridden fabric that will keep sweaty gym rats cool, and a team based in Boston and San Diego developed a Saran wrap-like electrode for the brain that “could lead to high performance brain machine interfaces.” This is science, not fiction.
 

A Cellular Computer?
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 26, 2017
Researchers in New York found a way to make “an unlimited supply” of blood in the lab, their peers in Belgium built a “brain-inspired” chip that composed music, and a team in Finland designed a “soft robot” inspired by a carnivorous plant. This is what we call finishing strong!
 

This Brain-Inspired Chip Is A Hit

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
May 19, 2017
Scientists at Georgia Tech have designed collision-proof drones and autonomous mini blimps that can detect “hesitant stares and eager smiles,” their peers at Princeton University have developed a technology that purifies water by injecting it with CO2 gas and researchers in Holland are using 3D-printed implants to correct eye defects in children. We see progress.
 

The Swarm Is Getting Smarter
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 12, 2017
Engineers in Illinois found a new way to kill killer bacteria, a team in Pittsburgh made a material that can turn pretty much anything into a touchscreen, and researchers in Minnesota 3D printed stretchable electronic skin for robots. This is what we call palpable progress.
 

 

Robots With Human Touch

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 05, 2017
Engineers at MIT built wireless beacons that can track your health, their peers in Pennsylvania used gene editing to shut down the replication of an HIV virus in a living animal for the first time, and scientists in Germany deciphered hominid DNA from just dirt. Make no bones about it — science is making progress.
 

Take A Walk On The Wi-Fi

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 28, 2017
Physicians in Philadelphia have developed an artificial womb, researchers in England built an AI that can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, and MIT engineers designed a robotic 3D printer that can build a house. Once again, science is hitting home runs.
 

This Artificial Womb Could Save Premature Babies

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 14, 2017
Extending the AR system to cobots like Baxter or Sawyer from Rethink Robotics will allow the team in Waukesha expand the palette of tasks it covers to the “4Ds — dirty, dangerous, difficult and dull jobs,” Beacham says. “Let’s say the operator is doing assembly work. The cobot may take over and apply adhesive in a complicated pattern. When that’s done, the human jumps back in and does the next step.”
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 07, 2017
Beacham first encountered augmented reality — which overlays graphics and video over the physical world — a decade ago in a science magazine. But the technology was still expensive and complicated, so he filed the idea away. He next ran into it two years ago at GE Global Research in Schenectady, New York. By then, kids all over the world had been logging thousands of hours on Microsoft’s Xbox and Kinect. A young GE researcher, Matteo Bellucci, who now works for GE’s Additive business, showed the technology and its AR applications to Beacham’s team during a regular monthly technology review.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 31, 2017
A paralyzed man used a brain chip to move his arm, a supercomputer is getting good at spotting depression, and scientists found a way to make fast-growing cancer self-destruct. Read on and finish the week on a positive note.
 

 

No More Wishful Thinking

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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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