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Dec 17, 2018

UC San Diego Awarded $2 Million to Advance Algae-based Renewable Polymers

Posted by in category: futurism

UC San Diego scientists have been granted $2 million to develop new methods for manufacturing products based on algae. Biologist Stephen Mayfield will lead efforts to develop novel platforms to produce biologically based monomers that will be used to manufacture renewable and biodegradable products.

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Dec 17, 2018

Progress in super-resolution microscopy

Posted by in category: futurism

Going deeper and deeper into cells with the microscope; imaging the nucleus and other structures more and more accurately; getting the most detailed views of cellular multi-protein complexes: All of these are goals pursued by the microscopy expert Markus Sauer at the Biocenter of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. Together with researchers from Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland, he has now shown that a hitherto uncertain method of super-resolution microscopy is reliable.

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Dec 17, 2018

Edible film kills bacteria in seafood

Posted by in category: food

While it’s important to keep food of any type fresh, it’s particularly crucial with seafood, as it can become tainted with toxic bacteria. That’s why an international group of scientists is developing a transparent antibacterial film that gets eaten along with the seafood it’s covering.


Dec 17, 2018

Gene-edited farm animals are coming. Will we eat them?

Posted by in categories: food, genetics, government, sustainability

Society and the government aren’t sure what to make of new techniques for animal breeding.

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Dec 17, 2018

Self-Organizing Molecules Could Store Data in Individual Atoms

Posted by in category: particle physics

New research helps make existing tech actually become feasible.

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Dec 17, 2018

A Google affiliate is planning a ‘smart’ neighborhood in Toronto. Local opposition is growing

Posted by in category: internet

A company wants to build a city from ‘the internet up,’ but locals are worried about privacy controls over personal data.

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Dec 17, 2018

Meet OWL and HIBOU! Japan’s Asteroid Hoppers Get New Names

Posted by in category: space

Japan’s pioneering Hayabusa2 asteroid hoppers have gotten new names.

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Dec 17, 2018

Best Friends Really Do Share Brain Waves, Say Scientists

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Tag your bestie if you’ve ever “been on the same wavelength.”

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Dec 17, 2018

New species of incredible ‘living tank’ dinosaur unveiled

Posted by in category: futurism

Even fierce tyrannosaurs would have been afraid of Zuul, a club-tailed Cretaceous beast known as the “destroyer of shins.”

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Dec 17, 2018

New research shows that tornadoes don’t form the way everyone thought

Posted by in category: climatology

Tornadoes are some of the most destructive weather events on the planet, so understanding how they form is vital in forming early warning systems that give people plenty of time to take cover. It’s long been thought that rotation in storm clouds is the very first sign that a twister is taking shape, but new research suggests that the cloud rotation might actually be the last piece of the tornado puzzle.

While monitoring a large tornado-producing storm in central Oklahoma, meteorologist Jana Houser of Ohio University gathered readings using a mobile Doppler radar that logged wind speeds twice per minute. This painted a detailed picture of the exact moment the clouds began to rotate, but it wasn’t until afterward that Houser and her fellow researchers noticed an anomaly.