From an article by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times via phys.org: Late at night, when the halls around her were empty, Heidi Becker positioned her subject in the crosshairs of an electron-shooting linear accelerator. Along with her companions, she arranged a cartload of heavy lead bricks to make sure the deadly radiation would hit only [...]
From Space News : Poland’s space agency POLSA recently signed an agreement with the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). The two agencies are to cooperate on joint research, monitoring and developing new telecoms solutions. The agreement was signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the latter’s official visit to Warsaw in [...]
Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA's genetic instructions to the rest of the cell. MIT engineers have now developed a way to visualize these molecules in higher resolution than previously possible in intact tissues, allowing researchers to precisely map the location of RNA throughout cells. Key [...]
From an article in Science Daily: The discovery power of the gene chip is coming to nanotechnology. Researchers have figured out how to make combinatorial libraries of nanoparticles in a very controlled way. Some of the nanoparticle compositions have never been observed before on Earth. The tool they are developing could be used to rapidly [...]
From an article written by AZoNano: In an ideal situation, implantable or injectable medical devices are expected to be soft just like the body tissues they correlate with besides being electrically functional and small. Researchers from two UChicago labs are investigating the possibility of producing a material comprising all these three characteristics. The June 27th [...]
From Digital Journal: The total removal of digital data is not easily achieved. A new application of electron beams provides a new way of achieving this. Removing information from an electronic device is not easy. While many of us have used devices which have crashed and the data appears irretrievable, often it remains hidden and [...]
From the article by Deena Douara Karim at Toronto: Shaharris Beh doesn’t want to hear about following your passion. More important, he says, is what is your purpose? Beh reveals his purpose is long-term -- enable local tech communities to create sustainable paths to development in impoverished parts of the world: “Economic development [...]
The Institute of Isolation is a short film exploring the body beyond Earth's edge, following Lucy McRae as she tests the effects that extreme experience could have on evolving human capacity. From the microgravity trainer that conditions the body for a possible life in space, to time spent in an anechoic chamber [...]
From an article by Mark Harris at MIT Technology Review Commercial space exploration is no longer just for billionaires. Last week, a small Arizona startup closed a $15 million round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture capital firms Canaan Partners and Norwest Ventures. World View, which calls itself a “space balloon” company, was founded with [...]
From an article by Harriet Tatham at ABC News: Dr Thirsk became obsessed with space travel in his early school years after a teacher put on a broadcast of an American astronaut mission into space. "Many years later, after I'd had some engineering and medical training, I was in a doctors' lounge relaxing and I saw [...]
