Worldwide spillover from US-China trade wars, block by block road emissions in LA, and America’s history of wanting to nuke hurricanes. Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today’s Headlines Trump’s trade war isn’t just a […]
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Photo credit: Alain Herzog | 2019 EPFLThese days, 3D printers are dime a dozen, but for truly world-changing applications, researchers at the Laboratory of Applied Photonics Devices (LAPD) in EPFL’s School of Engineering, working with colleagues from Utrecht University, have developed an ultra-rapid 3D bioprinter that can print living tissue in mere seconds. The technique
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Credit: Getty Images If genetic editing wasn’t crazy enough for your reality, a recent breakthrough in CRISPR technology has paved the way for editing entire gene networks in a single step. While this discovery will likely shorten the timeframes required
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Sometime between Wednesday and Friday, an Illinois resident died of an unknown respiratory illness that may have been the result of vaping. The death was one of nearly 200 cases of mysterious respiratory problems across 22 states whose only known link is the recent use of electronic cigarettes, or vapes, according to the Centers for
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Boston Dynamics’ four-legged SpotMini robot may look scary as it shares the stage with company founder and CEO Marc Raibert at Amazon’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas in June. But a report published this month praises Boston Dynamics’ owner, SoftBank, for confirming that it won’t develop technologies that could be used for military purposes. (GeekWire
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Photographer Aryeh Nirenberg has captured many stunning images of the Milky Way Galaxy over the years, but this latest time-lapse video could be one of the most beautiful. To accomplish this shoot, an equatorial tracking mount was needed to fix the lens focus on the Milky Way irregardless of any movement, such as Earth’s rotation.
3D printing has become commonplace in the hardware industry, but because few materials can be used for it easily, the process rarely results in final products. A Swiss startup called Spectroplast hopes to change that with a technique for printing using silicone, opening up all kinds of applications in medicine, robotics and beyond. Silicone is
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