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

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: The age of vertical farming is upon us, A true cure for HIV, a genetics breakthrough that could help cure aggressive cancers, a step closer to an artificial brain, and a quantum powered robotic exoskeleton. The Age of Vertical Farming is Upon Us As cities expand, eating up swathes of countryside in the process, agricultural p

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: Gene based computing, WiSE implant keeps your heart beating, fully synthetic human genome, brain-machine interface, and a potential “universal cancer vaccine”. Living Circuits Can Handle Complex Computing Gene-based circuits are about to get decidedly more sophisticated. MIT scientists have developed a method for integrating

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: Uber rolls out its first self-driving cars, the world’s largest desalination plant ramps up production, a study concludes that GMOs are safe, VR use explodes in April, and HP offers a huge upgrade to 3D printing technology. Uber to Begin Testing Autonomous Service If you’re driving around Pittsburgh in the coming weeks you mi

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: An ingestible origami robot, an AI lawyer, scientists may have figured out how to “switch on” regeneration, curing people with type 1 diabetes using their own stem cells, and a weak spot in the HIV virus may lead to a vaccine. Ingestible Origami Robot Can Deliver Medicine Or Patch Wounds In experiments involving a simulation

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: Visiting a distant star, using a brain chip to regain control of a hand after being paralyzed, eradicating polio, ocean waves could provide one third of the U.S.’s energy needs, and a microscope that uses AI to detect cancer. Stephen Hawking and Russian Billionaire Announce Plan for Interstellar Spacecraft Last year, the sear

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

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: An AI made to fight cancer, the first ever artificial kidney, New T-Cell Therapy leads to extraordinary results for terminal patients, a jacket made mostly of air that keeps you warm no matter the temperature, and a new semiconducting material that could revolutionize computer speed. An Artificial Intelligence Made To Fight C

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 genes that create intelligence, Congress tells NASA to build deep space module, bionic eyes that let the blind see again, new elements added to the periodic table, and a driverless taxi service. Scientists Discover Gene Clusters Linked To Human Intelligence What creates intelligence? Are the super-smart intelligent because of the way that their brains are wired? Is it because of genes, or is it just because of the way that they were raised? Now, we have new inf

This week: A new anti-aging drug, Earth’s water could be native, meaning other planets may be more likely to have water, animal hair could inspire self cleaning devices, computers with neural networks, and google takes aim at heart disease. Alzheimer’s Drug Has Anti-Aging Proporties New research from the Salk Institute shows that the experimental Alzheimer’s drug J147 has a host of unexpected anti-aging effects in animals. The Salk team expanded upon their previous developmen

Every Friday we put together a list of the weekend events we think look most interesting and provide them here. Keep in mind there is always a lot more going on, and all it takes is a little digging to find something that will be the perfect activity for you. Click on any of the event titles for a link to the event. Friday, November 6 Innovation Hangar, San Francisco Fri-Sat, All Ages $215 FUTURE FORUM: FRIDAY, NOV 6, 9 AM-5:30 PM Join us for a day filled with creative conver

This week: NASA’s new rocket passes critical review, Asthma drug causes brain regeneration, new research into natural “highs”, miniature tractor beams, and a real life “martian”. NASA’s Space Launch System Completes Design Review NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review. It is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges of the journey to Mars and the first exploration class rocket since the Saturn V. SLS will be t

The end of work is still just a futuristic concept for most of the United States, but it is something like a moment in history for Youngstown, Ohio, one its residents can cite with precision: September 19, 1977. For much of the 20th century, Youngstown’s steel mills delivered such great prosperity that the city was a model of the American dream, boasting a median income and a homeownership rate that were among the nation’s highest. But as manufacturing shifted abroad after Wo

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

This week: NASA is on track to take us to Mars, the nearest potentially habitable exoplanet, a space-grown salad, building the hyperloop, and paving the way for quantum computing. NASA SLS Program “Right on Track” for Journey To Mars NASA’s Space Launch System Program has completed its review – another step forward for the program that will help launch astronauts on missions to an asteroid placed in lunar orbit, and eventually to Mars. You know the feeling of pride and achiev

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

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

Geologists And Seismologists Rush To Prevent Further Tragedy In Nepal READ MORE Digital Tattoo Lets You Control Devices With Your Mind WHAT’S on your mind? For £79, anyone can buy a headset that reads the electrical activity of their brain. It’s called an electroencephalogram, or EEG, and you can use it to control devices with the power of your mind. But there’s a drawback: they don’t work when the wearer is moving and they look silly, so no one wants to wear them. The soluti

Author: Christie Wilcox Source: DiscoverMagazine.com For four years, the state of California has experienced a devastating drought. It’s not just a little dry—according to scientists, it’s the worst drought in over a millennium, fueled by global climate change. Cali is in such dire straits that Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. just signed two emergency measures to funnel another $1 billion to drought relief and critical water infrastructure projects. No sector is feeling the hit