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: Cancer’s Achilles heel, turning plastic waste into edible mushrooms, using nano-technology to build a biological computer, scientists create naive pluripotent stem cells from human embryos, and SpaceX’s successful satellite launch. Scientists Find Cancer’s “Achilles Heel” Scientists believe they have discovered a way to “stee

This week: Turning water into fuel, a drone that carries people, a single blood test that could detect all cancers, getting back to the moon, and finding new worlds and new life. “Nano-Reactor” for the Production of Hydrogen Biofuel Scientists at Indiana University have created a highly efficient biomaterial that catalyzes the formation of hydrogen — one half of the “holy grail” of splitting H2O to make hydrogen and oxygen for fueling cheap and efficient cars that run on wate

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

It’s common advice among job seekers: when you’re interviewing, you need to interview the employer right back. After all, you’re the one who is potentially going to fill this position, so you need to know if it’s going to be a good fit, right? Except that while salary ranges, benefits and schedule flexibility are important details you deserve answers to, hiring managers don’t appreciate questions like these until at least your second interview (or maybe even after they’ve mad

This week: Wasp venom kills cancer cells, giant sea scorpions from prehistoric seas, smaller particle accelerators, the paleo diet had grains after all, and tapping ocean waves for renewable energy. Brazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer and Ignores Healthy Cells A newly published study shows how Brazilian wasp venom selectively kills cancer cells without harming normal cells. The social wasp Polybia paulista protects itself against predators by producing venom known to contain a

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

Mars has liquid water just below its surface, according to new measurements by Nasa’s Curiosity rover. Until now, scientists had thought that conditions on the red planet were too cold and arid for liquid water to exist, although there were known to be deposits of ice. READ MORE The extent of Arctic sea ice in March hit a record low for the month in the satellite era, according to the latest update from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Back on February 25, a record low