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What started as a dream more than 10 years ago, has finally become reality. After more than 2 years of work, dozen of failures, hundreds of hours of lab work and design time, we’ve finally done it. We’ve engineered a strain of yeast that produce real spider silk! This video explains how.

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Could this be China’s smartest’ warehouse?

Newly published results offer compelling evidence that hydrogen is a metal at extremely high pressures. But is the research enough to convince the field at large that metallic hydrogen exists?

This eBike has the longest range ever — 245 miles on one charge.

Delfast Prime 2.0 eBike has the longest range ever – 245 miles on one charge. Version 2 of a legendary model with the Guinness World Record.

A Nebraska student has grown her own canoe using fungus — and it sprouts new mushrooms every time she takes it out on the water.

Katy Ayers, 28, created the 8ft-long boat from fibrous mushroom roots, otherwise known as mycelium.

The roots are usually found beneath soil and known for their dense, buoyant and waterproof properties, The Times reported.

Techniques for imaging through scattering media are generally invasive, operate at microscopic scales or require a priori information. Here, the authors overcome these limitations by introducing confocal diffuse tomography, which captures the 3D shape of objects hidden behind scattering media.

The soil bacteria breathe through ‘giant snorkels’ made of a special conductive protein, the researchers found.

Has science fiction shaped our thoughts about space? In a new episode of our #GravityAssist podcast, astrobiologist Susan Schneider shares her theories on what life might be like in the future.

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Vat19 puts the life-saving LifeStraw water filter to the test by trying it out in sewage, urinal water, water from the Mississippi River, and even some liquid vomit. The video, naturally, comes with a warning for the weak of stomach.

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