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Fighting cancer with lasers.

In an effort to eliminate the side effects of modern cancer treatments, Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green began exploring the use of light-activated nanoparticles to target tumors directly. #HistoryNOW

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History NOW is a collection of timely and relevant stories that can only be experienced, documented, and shared right now. Throughout 2016, History NOW will feature powerful videos from people capturing significant, transformative events from their unique first-person perspectives. From politics and sports to science and technology, these are the people making history now.

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Technology giant IBM is known for of making bold predictions about the future, and it’s just announced its latest “5 in 5” list, highlighting the five innovations that they think will have the biggest impact on our lives over the next five years.

According to the company, in only a few years, we’re set to see huge developments in artificial intelligence (AI), ultra-powerful telescopes, smart sensors, and medical devices — with benefits ranging from healthcare and the environment, to our understanding of Earth and the Universe itself.

Of course, all these predictions are based on technology and research developments that are happening right now — there’s no way of knowing what else might crop up in the next five years.

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“You could produce artificial proteins with unnatural amino acids,” he proposed. But the artificial proteins could be “not just to prep, pull out the cell, and purify as a drug, but to work within the cell to bestow it with new functions,” he added.

Researchers generate an organism that can replicate artificial base pairs indefinitely.

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Did Carl Sagan really warn about a time in the future when manufacturing jobs would slip away, when the average person would have virtually no control over their political lives, and when we would all cling to superstitions? Yes, Sagan did predict just that. The screenshot you may have seen floating around social media is real. And plenty of people are worried that Carl was talking about our era.

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