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08/10/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Scary magnetic control system moves DNA-based robots in less than a second

Nanorobots are advancing at a much, much faster pace than expected. In an article published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists unveiled a new control system that improved the response time of nanorobot components from a few minutes to just under a second. Nanorobots have been of special interest among many scientists for years now, […]

07/31/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The rise of Terminator-like machines: Biohybrid robot made with muscles grown from hydrogel sheets

What did Japanese researchers do when they found a new way to grow biological muscles out of hydrogel sheets? Why, make cyborgs, of course. An article in Science Daily detailed how they created a robot with living tissue over a metal endoskeleton using their newly developed technique. This prototype is the latest Frankensteinian creation of […]

06/20/2018 / By Vicki Batts

A new breed of solar-powered AI weeders could disrupt the $100 billion pesticide industry by reducing the need for universal herbicides

Robots and AI are poised to take over a host of human jobs — especially in the fast food industry, if McDonald’s is any indication. Now, it looks like there may be hope for robots to replace pesticides, too. Chemical pesticides peddled by the biotech and agricultural industries have proven themselves to be harmful to […]

06/16/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Researchers create 3D printer that works directly on human skin, could be used to print temporary sensors

Who needs wearable electronics when you can print them on your skin directly? That is the thinking that drove Minnesota-based researchers to customize a 3D printer so that it can put sensors and other temporary electronics on human skin, an article on Phys.org stated. Using the skin of anything alive as a printing surface is difficult […]

06/08/2018 / By Janine Acero

Engineers are developing a fluorescent microscope that doesn’t use lenses and captures 3D data

Microscopes are essential tools in various fields of science, but much like other forms of technology, scientists have decided that the bulky microscope should have a portable – tiny even – version, to make it possible to use it to image many of the areas deep inside the body. Traditional fluorescent microscopes are important tools […]

05/14/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Gene-editing tool, CRISPR, is a new, scary technology that can change everything we know, from our food to our bodies

In virtually every avenue of science, things are changing and growing at an alarming rate – a rate that very few of us can keep up with. From human/animal hybrids to gene editing, scientists now hold the very foundations of life in their hands. If researchers are left unchecked by the world’s regulatory bodies and […]

02/12/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Medical monstrosity: Doctors creating “three-parent” babies to be carried to term by female volunteers

With all the Frankenstein-like science that we’ve been seeing in recent years, it was only a matter of time before scientists found a way to create babies using three parents. Now, doctors in the UK have been given the green light to create three-parent babies. The country’s fertility regulator is allowing doctors at Newcastle Fertility […]

11/27/2017 / By JD Heyes

Pentagon’s super-secret research agency DARPA now wants to genetically engineer PLANTS to use as battlefield spying technology

It seems the Department of Defense wants to get in on the GMO craziness, but not in what you would consider the normal way. No, the Pentagon has not announced a military-wide transition to genetically modified foods; rather, DARPA— the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency — says it is working on developing a new way […]

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