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Dec 17, 2018
Found: Upside-Down Waterfalls, Steaming Mud, and Blue Microbes on the Ocean Floor
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biological
Dec 17, 2018
Building a Quantum Future in Canada
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, quantum physics
Dec 17, 2018
UC San Diego Awarded $2 Million to Advance Algae-based Renewable Polymers
Posted by Genevieve Klien 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.
Dec 17, 2018
Progress in super-resolution microscopy
Posted by Genevieve Klien 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.
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 Genevieve Klien in categories: food, genetics, government, sustainability
Society and the government aren’t sure what to make of new techniques for animal breeding.
Dec 17, 2018
Self-Organizing Molecules Could Store Data in Individual Atoms
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
Dec 17, 2018
A Google affiliate is planning a ‘smart’ neighborhood in Toronto. Local opposition is growing
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: internet
A company wants to build a city from ‘the internet up,’ but locals are worried about privacy controls over personal data.