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What Happens If Someone Uses This DIY Gene Hacking Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria?

The campaign, called "DIY CRISPR Kits, Learn Modern Science By Doing" was started by Josiah Zayner, a synthetic biologist and research fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. ...

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Engineers Combine Biological Energy-Harvesting With Electronic Circuits

Previous experiments have accomplished similar-sounding schemes—energy harvested within an inner-ear, tree-powered nanoelectronics—but with the critical limitat...

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Kickstarter Is Funding Investigative Journalism (About a Failed Kickstarter)

Kickstarter has commissioned tech journalist Mark Harris to investigate and report on one of the company’s most high-profile failed campaigns to date: the&n...

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Global Restrictions On Farm Antibiotics Needed To Fight Superbugs, Report Says

There?s no denying the link between the overuse of antibiotics on farm animals and the development of antibiotic resistance, according to a new report commissioned by UK Pr...

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A Japanese Probe That Was Lost In Space For 5 Years Has Finally Made It To Venus

Back in 2010, Akatsuki was launched into space to study the surface of Venus. While the spacecraft reached the planet on 7 December 2010, it didn’t quite enter o...

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Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel

Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space jun...

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This Space Mission Could Upend Our Basic Notions of Newtonian Gravity

Sir Isaac Newton probably didn't get conked on the head by a falling apple, but by many, if not most accounts, there was an apple and it did fall in his presence. Having wi...

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Google Just Turned Android Smartphones Into Amateur VR Cameras

Google today released a new Android app called Cardboard Camera that lets users take VR photos with their smartphone, which are then viewable in the company&rsquo...

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How High Speed Communications Networks Are Making Remote Surgery Realistic

Imagine a future where surgeons no longer have to enter war zones to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield. Instead, they would just rig themselves up to a?surgical rob...

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The Secret To Conquering Space Without It Killing Us First May Lie In Our Bones

Space travel is notoriously hard on the human body. For decades, astronauts have returned to Earth anemic, their red blood cell count depleted, leaving them vulnerable to i...

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