A few years ago, a whole new crop of crazy medical devices started popping up—things like little robots that could crawl through your veins and clear blocked arteries. Scientists lauded the promise of ingestible electronics, but there was one big problem. How are we going to power these devices?
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This has been an important week for NASA and its experimental prototype lander spacecraft called Morpheus. The spacecraft conducted its first successful free flight on December 10. Yesterday the spacecraft … Continue reading
NASA has put a number of probes onto the surface of Mars and in orbit around the red planet over the years. Each time NASA launches a mission to Mars, … Continue reading
The majority of the population will at some point have to contend with that dreaded icky feeling of spewing their guts as they ride in a train, plane or automobile. But why do we get motion sickness, and is there any way we can stop it?
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For the first time in the world, scientists managed to string together all the amino-acid building blocks in erythropoietin, but it remains to be seen whether the scientific team managed to end up with a properly folded form. In plain English, red blood cell boosters have been synthesized for the first time in human history, being the hormone that is the main key when it comes to the creation of red blood cells from the most basic sum of its parts. Also known as EPO, this protein would arrive with an attached sugar, and in our bodies, it is naturally produced by the kidneys. Red blood cells are the ones that determine the level of oxygen that your blood is able to carry, while EPO also helps in the creation of hemoglobin.
The synthesized EPO was created after stringing together a chain of amino acids in order to result in a protein that has large sugars integrated into the process. Trials have shown that mice which have been injected with this synthesized EPO were able to produce more red blood cells in due time. It is not a perfect process just yet, but in the future, it could mean the creation of drugs without the need for living cells.
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We all know somebody with one of those faces. You know, the friend who always gets mistaken for someone else. They say, "I know I remember you from somewhere!" But they don’t. Turns out there’s a science to this sort of thing—and it could make your face more memorable.
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Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft exec who has since become (in)famous in patent litigation
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Binary lies at the heart of our technological lives: those strings of ones and zeroes are fundamental to the way all our digital devices function. But while the invention of binary is usually credited to German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz in the 18th Century, it turns out the Polynesians were using it as far back as 600 years ago.
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It may sound like fiction, but scientists and researchers know that there is a massive magma chamber underneath Yellowstone National Park. A new study was published recently that claims the magma chamber under Yellowstone is much larger than previously believed. The study claims the magma chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously believed. According to […]
If you have ever owned a cat, you know that they have an incredible independent streak and often do what they want, when they want no matter what their humans want. This independent streak in cats has left scientists wondering for a long time exactly how cats were first domesticated. A recent discovery of cat […]
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