Welcome to Technology Tuesday! Every week The Job Shop Blog will bring you our 5 top science and technology news stories from around the web. This week: Giving touch back to the paralyzed, one step closer to true AI, biology by design, an anti-aging protein, and growing crops in the desert. A Brain Implant Restores The Sense Of Touch To A Paralyzed Man A brain implant has restored touch in the hand of a paralyzed man, who described the sensations as mimicking natural touch, a

This week: A look at Amazon’s drone delivery service, a new player in space exploration, a stem cell hub in Canada, an injectable foam for regrowing bone, and a new way to treat diabetes. Delivery Drones: The Latest on what Amazon Prime Air Can Do As the world awaits the implementation of various drone delivery services planned by major retailers, Amazon reveals what consumers can expect from their Amazon Prime Air. “So Prime Air is a future delivery service that will get pac

This week: The worlds largest cloning facility, a historic rocket landing, lab grown liver cells, the water bear’s foreign genes, and manipulating the genes for long life. Giant Animal Cloning Facility Under Construction in China Scientists from China have announced that they will establish a commercial animal cloning center in the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area (TEDA), a government-sponsored business development park. Here, they will clone various animal

This week: Growing a voice, the world’s most extensive facial reconstruction, a translating megaphone, scientists create a cyborg rose, and watching the birth of a planet. Scientists Grow Functioning Vocal Cords Growing a Voice Scientists in the University of Wisconsin-Madison have successfully grown functional vocal cord tissue in a laboratory – yes, vocal cords that work. This remarkable new tissue engineering technique could, someday, be used to restore the voices of patie

This week: Intriguing hints about the origin of life, autonomous cars are learning our tics, preventing post-traumatic stress disorder, technology keeping us young, and biologists engaged in a cute off. Continental Break-Up May Have Set The Stage For Life The break-up of continents may have allowed life to emerge on Earth. One hint of this has emerged from rocks deep beneath the sea floor off Portugal, which date back 125 million years, to the break-up of the super-continent