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Scientist and astronomers are discovering a large number of new planets using the Kepler Space Telescope. One of the latest planets discovered by the space telescope is called Kepler-413b. The … Continue reading

Fancy taking a trip to space as your next holiday, and yet hate the idea of flying in a rocket which will make economy class on your regular airline feel as though it is the most luxurious ride ever? Such an adventure in a gravity-less environment might be undertaken in a more comfortable manner should the idea of a space elevator be mooted and completed, although it will most probably be completed some time in the middle of this century at best. Nihon University professor Yoshio Aoki is leading a team to develop the basic technology required for an elevator system which will be able to move along cables that will go all the way up to the sky – and early experiments have gone as high as 1.2km.

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Space Elevator Could Be A Reality By 2050 original content from Ubergizmo.

I have just finished watching RoboCop on a legit channel – at a cinema, of course, and the question of fusing human as well as robot parts together continues to be an interesting aspect that might very well be the future if science manages to catch up with fiction. In fact, surgeons over at the University of Michigan Health System might have taken the first step in the right direction after managing to develop a customized DNA chip known as a microarray which will be able to help diagnose eye disorders, while having successfully performed their first ever surgery which involves implanting artificial retinas into the eyes of patients who suffer from retinitis pigmentosa, which happens to be a degenerative eye disease that will eventually lead to blindness if nothing is done.

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First Bionic Eye Implanted By UMHS Doctors original content from Ubergizmo.

We all know that one-way glass exists – a glass where you can see for the other side, but not the other way around. A similar mechanism has been applied to glass for other purposes, like one-way bulletproof glass, but until now a one-way sound device was not invented. However, quite recently scientists have created such a machine: people can hear someone talking, but they themselves cannot be heard.

We all take for granted the fact that glass is transparent. But stop and think about it for a second: how can something so bulky and solid be so easy to see through?

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