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Nov 7, 2016
NASA Successfully Tests the Engine That Will Take Us to Mars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space travel
NASA tests the engine for the most powerful rocket ever built, designed for deep-space missions.
Nov 7, 2016
Viruses Can Be Genetically Modified To Transmit Energy
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: genetics, solar power, sustainability
Nov 7, 2016
Elon Musk says Tesla will have fully autonomous cars by the end of 2017
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
New technique allows scientists to read the pages of an ancient text without opening the book.
Nov 7, 2016
Studying the Building Blocks of Life in Stereo Sound
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: media & arts
To make it easier to sift through data on proteins, a composer and a biologist turned them into music, an approach that could have many applications.
Nov 7, 2016
The Air Force Wants A Universal Translator
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, surveillance
Nov 7, 2016
Researchers Make Vocal Cords In The Lab
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Nov 7, 2016
Scientists Watch Stem Cells Regrow Brain Tissue
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Transplanted embryonic neurons can properly connect into the developed visual cortex of adult mice and improve the animals’ sensitivities to visual cues over time, scientists reported today (October 26) in Nature. By demonstrating that added neurons can become fully functional in circuits that normally do not rewire in adulthood, the team’s results suggest that the brain may be more plastic than previously thought.