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Humans 2.0
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. He is also among the most accomplished. In 1999, while still a high-school student, in Des Moines, Zhang found a structural protein capable of preventing retroviruses like H.I.V. from infecting human cells. The project earned him third place in the Intel Science Talent Search, and he applied the fifty thousand dollars in prize money toward...
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Company Aims To Bring Back The Dead Within 30 Years
Humai, a Los Angeles-based tech company, is hoping to bring back the dead within 30 years. A Los Angeles-based technology company has a goal of bringing dead people back to life within the next 30 years. Humai’s official website states that artificial intelligence and nanotechnology are being used to analyze human processes, and the creation of “an artificial body” is in the works.
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This Artist "Paints" With Nanoparticles Inspired by Butterfly Wings
Combining art and science comes naturally to Kate Nichols. The colors in her pieces don’t come from pigment, but from tiny silver nanoparticles suspended in the paint. She makes them herself, as artist-in residence in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.
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Scientists build the world's smallest engine
University of Cambridge physicists have created an engine that is one million times smaller than an ant.
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Tiny diamonds could enable huge advances in nanotechnology
Nanomaterials have the potential to improve many next-generation technologies. They promise to speed up computer chips, increase the resolution of medical imaging devices and make electronics more energy efficient. But imbuing nanomaterials with the right properties can be time consuming and costly. A new, quick and inexpensive method for constructing diamond-based hybrid nanomaterials could soon launch the field forward.
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Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground
For want of an atom, the space elevator failed. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are famed for being a future wonder material that will enable a swathe of super-strong but light applications from racing bikes to computer components. But now it seems a single out-of-place atom is enough to cut their strength by more than half. That means one of the more outlandish applications for CNT fibres – a sci-fi space elevator – might never happen.
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Graphene | How It's Made
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Neural Dust Implants
A tiny implant the size of a grain of sand has been created that can connect computers to the human body without the need for wires or batteries, opening up a host of futuristic possibilities.
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Silkworms Spin Super-Silk After Eating Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
The strong, conductive material could be used for wearable electronics and medical implants, researchers say
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Optical forces used to make rewritable 3-D holographic materials
Researchers have used the pressure of light—also called optical forces or sometimes “tractor beams”—to create a new type of rewritable, dynamic 3D holographic material… By Lisa Zyga. (Sept. 30, 2016)
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How to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ Without Antibiotics
Because “superbugs” like MRSA no longer respond to traditional antibiotic treatments, researchers are locked in a constant microscopic arms race to develop new antibiotics that effectively counter increasingly resistant opportunistic bacterial strains. Recently, a 25-year-old doctoral student developed an entirely new technique for combating superbugs- and without using antibiotics... By Zayan Guedim.
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How the 18th-century steam engine helped physicists make a quantum breakthrough
A new technique can remove noise from tiny electronic circuits, raising hopes of extremely efficient electronics and quantum technologies. By Clive Emary.
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MIT Researchers Break Plant-Human Communication Barrier
New kinds of information might be able to be gleaned from this new channel of communication with our neighbors in the plant kingdom. By Brett Tingely.
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Fire up the atom forge
Rethink electron microscopy to build quantum materials from scratch, urge Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Borisevich and Stephen Jesse.
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Scientists created the thinnest wires yet made of atoms coated in diamonds
Put together diamonds, copper, and sulfur, and you can make the thinnest wires humanly possible. These nanometer-scale wires could help shrink electronic circuits, cramming more computing power into ever-smaller devices, and allow researchers to explore exotic material physics. A team of scientists from Stanford University and the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory recently took molecule-sized diamond fragments, attached them to atoms of sulfur, and dropped them into a solution with copper atoms. The result: a wire three atoms across sheathed in diamond.
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Porous, 3-D forms of graphene developed at MIT can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter
A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a sponge-like configuration has a density of just 5 percent.
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Researchers Just 3-D Printed the Strongest Lightweight Material Ever
It might be weird looking, but it gets the job done. Researchers at MIT have 3-D printed one of the strongest lightweight materials ever. It's 10 times stronger than steel--yet only 1/20th its density. The researchers published their findings in a new report in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances. Their material has a strange shape to it, which is exactly what makes it so strong. It was made by taking flakes of graphene--a strong, lightweight, 2-dimensional form of carbon--compressing them, and fusing them together using 3-D printing.
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Drivers gear up for world’s first nanocar race
Chemists will navigate molecular wagons along a tiny golden track.
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The story of graphene | The University of Manchester
This is the story of graphene. Discovered at The University of Manchester in 2004, this 2D material is set to revolutionise every part of everyday life.
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For the First Time Tiny Robots Treat Infection in a Living Organism
Scientists from the department of NanoEngineering at the University of California San Diego were able to successfully use chemically-powered micromotors to deliver antibiotics in the gut of a mouse and treat a gastric bacterial infection. It is the first use of such technology in a living organism and could pave the way for further applications in treating various types of diseases. The study was published in Nature Communications.
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