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Oct 18, 2016
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Technology Tuesday: October 18

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

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Apr 26, 2016
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Technology Tuesday: April 26

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: Racing drones using your mind, an autonomous, voice controlled electric car, a new polymer that heals and twitches like muscle, getting a step closer to an everlasting battery, and a universal cure for allergies. University of Florida Holds World’s First Mind Controlled Drone Race Drone races are nothing new. But while they s

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Apr 12, 2016
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Technology Tuesday: April 12

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: Scientists save the Kepler Telescope, a game changing stem cell repair system, Samsung patents smart contact lenses, SpaceX successfully lands rocket at sea, and a programming language for living cells. The Kepler Space Telescope is Brought Back Online Last week, things were looking pretty bleak for the planet-hunting Kepler

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Feb 2, 2016
3 min

Technology Tuesday: February 2

This week: A huge breakthrough in Quantum Computing, British scientists given the okay to edit the genome of a human embryo, Australian scientists to begin trialing fully implantable bionic eye, new finding may explain mysterious heat loss in fusion reactions, and Apple is working on long distance wireless charging for future generations of iPhones. Heat Transference Breakthrough Could Mean Giant Leap Forward For Quantum Computing Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, have

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Dec 29, 2015
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Technology Tuesday: December 29

Author: Michelle Hill Source: UPI This year brought the discovery of new human ancestor in South Africa, 211 new species in the Eastern Himalayan, and the first new antibiotic in almost 30 years. As 2015 comes to a close, here is a look back at some of the top scientific breakthroughs, discoveries, and announcements. A new human ancestor: Homo nalendi In September, scientists announced the discovery of a previously unknown human ancestor, homo nalendi, found in a cave in Sout

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Dec 15, 2015
3 min

Technology Tuesday: December 15

This week: A super sponge to soak up oil leaks, the world’s largest fusion reactor comes to life, “kill switches” engineered into bacteria, new research into drug resistance, and a Matrix style memory prosthesis. New Super Sponge Could Be Used To Clean Oil Spills Australian scientists have developed a new material that could dramatically lower the impact of oil spills on mother nature. Researchers from Deakin University have invented a new sponge material made of thin, nanosh

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Dec 1, 2015
2 min

Technology Tuesday: December 1

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

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Nov 24, 2015
3 min

Technology Tuesday: November 24

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

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Nov 3, 2015
3 min

Technology Tuesday: November 3

This week: Helping the blind to see with “Smart Glasses”, 3D printing an entire home in under 24 hours, disease fighting GMO tomatoes, a drone that can navigate an obstacle course at high speeds, and a town that’s averaged an earthquake an hour for two weeks. Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound To Help The Blind Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be

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Oct 20, 2015
3 min

Technology Tuesday: October 20

This week: A promising treatment for Parkinson’s, China’s scary plan to rate their citizens, artificial skin for prosthetics, research data showing most earth-like planets yet to form, and 3D printing a Mars Habitat. Promising Drug Treats Parkinson’s Symptoms An expensive cancer drug may reverse late-stage Parkinson’s disease, enabling participants in a small clinical trial to speak and walk again for the first time in years. While there are several treatments for the symptom

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Oct 13, 2015
3 min

Technology Tuesday: October 13

This week: Journey to Mars, treating brittle bone disease in the womb, digitizing the brain, transplanting pig organs in humans, and a universal wireless transmitter. How We Get To Mars NASA has released a detailed outline on the journey to Mars, “NASA’s Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration.” “NASA is closer to sending American astronauts to Mars than at any point in our history,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. “Today, we are publishing additio

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Oct 6, 2015
3 min

Technology Tuesday: October 6

This week: Exercise in a bottle, Nobel Prizes are being announced and awarded, looking back at our exploration of exoplanets, looking for future risks of asthma in newborns, and and custom gene-edited pets. Breakthrough Research May Lead to “Exercise in a Bottle” New research from the University of Sydney reveals around 1000 molecular reactions to exercise, opening the door for drug treatments to mirror the health benefits of exercise. Drugs that mimic the benefits of exercis

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Sep 29, 2015
2 min

Technology Tuesday: September 29

This week: Water on Mars, scaffolding for 3D printed organs, more precise human genome editing, identifying the colors of ancient animals, and South African solar cars. Flowing Water on Mars NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured the strongest evidence yet that salty liquid water flows on the planet’s surface during warm seasons. Whether or not these salty flows could sustain life depends on how salty they are, says Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technolog

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Sep 1, 2015
2 min

Technology Tuesday: September 1

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

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Aug 18, 2015
3 min

Tech Tuesday: August 18

This week: Curing blindness, cross-species organ transplants, compact fusion reactors, glasses that “cure” colorblindness, and Google helps you invest in solar. Gene Therapy Cures Blindness When the owl swooped, the “blind” mice ran away. This was thanks to a new type of gene therapy to reprogram cells deep in the eye to sense light. After treatment, the mice ran for cover when played a video of an approaching owl, just like mice with normal vision. “You could say they were t

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Jul 28, 2015
2 min

Technology Tuesday: July 28

This week: Mirrors that monitor your health, Michigan takes the lead on autonomous cars, cataloging and preserving Earth’s genetic diversity, text messages for the blind, and turning our cells into tiny organic lasers. “Magic” Mirror Diagnoses Disease Mirror mirror on the wall, am I at risk of heart disease? One day soon your mirror might actually be able to give you the answer. Wize Mirror looks like a mirror, but incorporates 3D scanners, multispectral cameras and gas senso

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Jul 14, 2015
2 min

Tech Tuesday: July 14

This week: Our closest look ever at distant Pluto, fighting cancer with diabetes drugs, networking multiple animal brains, new building blocks of the universe found, and the elimination of needles from medicine. Hello Pluto! After three billion miles and a decade-long journey through our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has finally reached Pluto. New Horizons made its closest approach at a distance of roughly 7,750 miles above the surface, making it the first-ever

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Jul 7, 2015
2 min

Technology Tuesday: July 7th

This week: An Antarctic base on skis, combating dengue fever with GM mosquitoes, stem cell therapy to combat HIV, enormous skyscrapers packed with green tech, and a battle between giant robots. Antarctic Ski Station CONSTANT darkness, bone-chilling temperatures and cut off from the rest of the world. Living in Antarctica isn’t for the faint-hearted – and I should know, I overwintered there a while back. But at least I lived in a base built on rock; it’s quite another matter w

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May 5, 2015
2 min

Technology Tuesday: May 5

Artificial Muscles From Onions The onion, a humble root vegetable, is proving its strength outside the culinary world — in an artificial muscle created from onion cells. Unlike previous artificial muscles, this one can either expand or contract to bend in different directions depending on the driving voltage applied. READ MORE Super Spider Silk Spider-man would be so envious. Spiders have woven webs infused with carbon nanotubes and even graphene, raising the prospect of new

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