February 2012
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Innerspace: DNA robots target cancer cells. →
Scientists have developed and tested a “DNA robot” that delivers payloads such as drug molecules to specific cells.
The container was made using a method called “DNA origami”, in which long DNA chains are folded in a prescribed way.
Then, so-called aptamers - which can recognise specific cell types - were used to lock the barrel-shaped robot.
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Coming Soon: Google made heads-up display glasses. →
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Just a head's up: Your car may be spying on you. →
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The science of ponytails. →
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Resistance Is Futile: Bacteria are taking over! →
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Major Breakthrough: Science Says "Vodka Delivers... →
Science has indeed caught up with reality.
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Men Get it. Women Don't. (In Space.) →
Because when Barratt blasted off to the international space station, he needed eyeglasses for distance. When he returned to Earth, his distance vision was fine, but he needed reading glasses. That was more than two years ago. And he’s not getting better.
“We really need to understand this. This is a critical point for understanding how humans adapt to spaceflight,” he said.
In the past few...
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Shhhhhh: Whales 'Stressed By Ocean Noise' →
Ships’ propellers emit sound in the same frequency range that some whales use for communicating, and previous studies have shown the whales change their calling patterns in noisy places.
Now, researchers have measured stress hormones in whale faeces, and found they rose with the density of shipping.
There’s only one man who can help these whales now…
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Video: Skydiver To Jump From Space →
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Troops Could Control Guns With Their Minds →
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Google Earth Update Erases Underwater 'Atlantis'... →
If you want to believe their explanation for deletion, be my guest.
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Nosebleed? Try Bacon →
“Cured salted pork crafted as a nasal tampon and packed within the nasal vaults successfully stopped nasal hemorrhage promptly, effectively, and without sequelae … To our knowledge, this represents the first description of nasal packing with strips of cured pork for treatment of life-threatening hemorrhage in a patient with Glanzmann thrombasthenia.”
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FTW: Virtual Reality Contact Lenses →
Contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into people’s eyeballs could be on sale as early as 2014, says U.S. company Innovega.
The tiny ‘screens’ sit directly on users’ eyeballs and work with a pair of lightweight glasses with a built-in translucent screen.
The experience is equivalent to a 240-inch television viewed at a distance of 10 feet, says...
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Video: Sheep-Herding Bunny
Yes, this is for real:
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It's Coming: New York-Size Iceberg →
With a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica’s fastest-melting glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice larger than all of New York City, scientists say.
The crevasse stretches 19 miles (30 kilometers) long and up to 260 feet (80 meters) wide, as shown in a picture taken by NASA’s Terra satellite in Octoberand featured this week as a NASA Image of the Day.
Snaking...
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Domo Arigato: The Science Behind What Makes A Hit... →
The anatomy of a hit song has remained a mystery to researchers looking to dissect what makes some songs soar to the top of the charts and others land with an embarrassing flop. Thus far, figuring out what qualities may link very different anthems — say, Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” and LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It” — has been more a matter of alchemy than...
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Shocker: Mars Surface Inhabitable →
But seriously, we all know martians live UNDERGROUND…
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Do Not Taunt The Quadrotors →
Also, check out this video if you’re not scared yet.
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A Guided Bullet? Yes, Please. →
I’ll take 10… and one in the chamber.
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Scientists On The Verge Of Discovering... →
The question of whether normal matter’s shadowy counterpart anti-matter exerts a kind of “anti-gravity” is set to be answered, according to a new report.
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Who Has Two Thumbs And Is Ready For A "Cloaking"... →
Researchers have “cloaked” a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time.
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Most of the high-profile invisibility cloaking efforts have focused on the engineering of “metamaterials” - modifying materials to have properties that cannot be found in nature.
The modifications allow metamaterials to guide and channel light in...
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Invasion: "Alien" Particles Entering Our Galaxy →
For the first time, a NASA spacecraft has directly observed “alien” particles that came from beyond our solar system, astronomers announced today. The discovery not only gives us a glimpse of what exists in the so-called interstellar medium—the matter between stars—but also offers clues to the anatomy of our local galactic neighborhood. Orbiting Earth some 200,000 miles (322,000...
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New Reality: Mind-Reading Device
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