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09/16/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

New DNA testing tool skips the lab, making diagnostics available in remote places

A new “DNA dipstick” could revolutionize disease diagnosis and improve general healthcare in third-world countries. Scientists have simplified genotyping into a tool that purifies DNA and RNA from living organisms in under 30 seconds. Their recent technology is featured in PLOS Biology and shows how genetic material from organisms can be typed in mere seconds. Previous […]

09/16/2018 / By Edsel Cook

An international team attempts to gain a better understanding of fusion reactors

Researchers from around the world have come to the university town of Greifswald, Germany to run tests on one of the biggest and most complex fusion reactors ever built. Their latest experiment campaign could help speed up the predicted timetable for practical fusion power, an article in Science Daily stated. The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator is […]

09/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

New approach could make invisibility cloaking a very real idea

Researchers have found a new way to make something truly invisible to sight. An article in Science Daily describes a new technology that changes the color of light waves as they go through an object, preventing it from giving off reflections or distortions that would reveal the cloaked object. Its developers claim that their approach […]

09/03/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Chemists design a new bacterial polymer that may one day replace petroleum plastics

One of the ways to solve the problem of plastic pollution is to come up with biodegradable alternatives that are made from bio-renewable resources using clean processes. Such products are usually more expensive and difficult to manufacture than petroleum-based plastics. Colorado-based researchers announced that they found a way to produce one bacterial polymer much more […]

07/17/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Scientists develop an artificial muscle from carbon fiber capable of lifting 12,600x its own weight

What makes a muscle able to carry over 12,000 times its own weight? Carbon fiber and silicone, according to research published in the journal Smart Materials and Structures. The artificial muscle, the creation of researchers from the University of Illinois, is made from siloxane rubber reinforced with carbon fiber. It is capable of supporting 12,600 […]

07/05/2018 / By S.D. Wells

Ultra-quick electric pulses KILLING cancer cells – Time for the world to pay close attention

For more than a decade, a team of cancer researchers at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia have been studying a new type of cancer therapy that utilizes nano-second stimulation by ultra-fast electrical pulses to kill tumor cells, and now, after testing it out on mice, it’s working. Generating about 3 million pulses in […]

04/12/2018 / By David Williams

MIT researchers working on a nuclear fusion superconductor that will generate carbon-free limitless energy within 15 years

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed that for the first time ever, nuclear fusion-based renewable energy may be achievable within the next 15 years. This is going to be made possible thanks in part to a collaboration of the university with a private company that goes by the name Commonwealth Fusion […]

03/17/2018 / By David Williams

Scientists have created a new kind of radiation detector out of graphene

Graphene has a number of unique and fairly interesting properties, among which is its ability to turn heat into electricity. Now a group of researchers led by Grigory Skoblin of Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has taken this thermoelectric property and turned it into the driving force behind a new type of radiation detector. […]

03/11/2018 / By David Williams

Intel breakthrough uses silicon to make a quantum processor; are hack-proof computers on the horizon?

Quantum computing is shaping up to be the next best thing since sliced bread, according to many technology industry leaders and experts. Indeed, many of today’s leading technology companies are trying to conduct their own research to advance the field, and they’re all making progress slowly but surely. Now microchip maker Intel has announced that […]

03/08/2018 / By Edsel Cook

In the near future, paint colors may be grown from bacteria

In the future, the paint applied to a wall or sprayed on a car body might feature bacterial colonies that can change color according to your liking or lighting, suggested a NanoWerk article. This development is possible thanks to British researchers who unlocked the genes responsible for many bright and vivid colors Mother Nature likes […]

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