People can understand these “iconic vocalizations” regardless of their spoken language.
“Iconic vocalizations” may have been the missing link that allowed the first human languages to develop, a new study suggests.
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Adam Savage 3D Prints Titanium Iron Man Suit That’s Bulletproof
Adam Savage, one of the creators and hosts of the beloved show Mythbusters, collaborated with his friend Richard Browning, founder of Gravity, to demonstrate a flying, bulletproof Iron Man suit that was 3D printed from Titanium. This is a feat that has to be seen to be believed.
The creation of the suit will be featured on a new show that Savage is doing with the Science Channel. It all started when Savage visited the Colorado School of Mines and one of the engineers told him they had Titanium 3D printers, adding “if you want to print something weird, let us know.” To which Savage replied, “Really? How about a full suit of Iron Man armor?”
World’s First 3D Gummy Candy Printer Lets You Print Custom Gummies
As of August 28th, you can now use a 3D printer to produce custom candy gummies in Berlin. The world’s first 3D candy printer, Magic Candy Factory, had been in development for over a year through German company Katjes Fassin’s UK subsidiary, and can print gummies in 3–10 minutes; competing machines take up to an hour.
A Molecule That Shouldn’t Exist – “The Biggest Scientific Shock of My Life”
A variety of molecules protrude from the cell surface, including glycoproteins, glycolipids, and the newly discovered glycoRNAs. This illustration depicts RNA as a double-stranded stem and a loop, and the glycan as a Tinkertoy-like structure branching off it. Credit: Emily M. Eng/R. Flynn et al./Cell 2021.
Sugars attach to certain RNA molecules on the outside membrane of the cell. The newly discovered “glycoRNAs” may be involved in immune signaling.
In a surprise find, scientists have discovered sugar-coated RNA molecules decorating the surface of cells.
Sperm help ‘persuade’ the female to accept pregnancy
Conditions like recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia, preterm birth and stillbirth are affected by the female’s immune response in ways that the partner’s sperm contribute to.
Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction—to fertilize the female’s egg—but studies at the University of Adelaide are overturning that view.
Published in Nature Research journal Communications Biology, new research shows that sperm also deliver signals directly to the female reproductive tissues to increase the chances of conception.
Robinson Research Institute’s Professor Sarah Robertson, who led the project, said: This research is the first to show that the female immune response is persuaded by signals in sperm to allow the male partner to fertilize her eggs and conceive a pregnancy.
Gigajot Unveils World’s First Commercially Available Quanta Image Sensors
Photon counting and reliable photon number resolving, until now, only partially available utilizing esoteric EMCCD technology in highly controlled laboratory environments, is now possible with a compact form-factor camera, operating at room temperature — with the additional benefits of higher resolution and speed. “The ability to do photon counting at room temperature is a game changer for our research efforts in Astrophysics and Quantum Information Science,” said Dr. Don Figer, Director of Center for Detectors and the Future Photon Initiative in the College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology.
