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: Elon Musk releases his updated master plan for Tesla, the U.S. and Russia make plans to go to the Moon together, new technology for a glasses-less 3D movie screen, a new auto steel that’s 30% lighter and 25% stronger, and an engineered living hip that eliminates arthritis pain. Elon Musk’s Master Plan 2.0 Elon Musk has been i

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: Data storage in DNA, swallowable electronics that monitor your health, lab made “black hole” sheds light on Hawking Radiation, a fully bendable smartphone, and Space X announces plans to land a spacecraft on Mars by 2018. Microsoft Experiment With DNA Data Storage Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology st

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

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: For the first time 3D printed drugs are commercially available, Tesla unveils their Model 3, Using stem cells to repair spinal injuries, a tiny solar panel for your phone, and new, super efficient batteries. The First 3D Printed Medicine Aprecia Pharmaceuticals has become the first medicine brand in the world to tap in the hu

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 “delete” HIV from human cells, a simple synthetic cell could help us understand the most basic aspects of genetics, self cleaning textiles that could replace washing machines, a device that turns your smart phone into a 3d printer, and building a moon colony in just 6 years. Scientists Eliminate HIV-1 DNA from Huma

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 treating nanoparticles, recovering memories for Alzheimer’s victims, DARPA is trying to build a “learning machine”, 3D printing cartilage, and creating “Omnifocal” glasses. Nanoparticles Effectively Treat Cancer in Mice For most cancer patients, it’s not the original tumor that poses the greatest risk. It’s the metasta

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: A new procedure that allows kidney transplants from any donor, searching for life on Mars, a robot surgeon, bringing the Matrix to real life, and bringing space tourism to the masses. Open Sourced Kidneys In the anguishing wait for a new kidney, tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists may never find a match because the

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 create artificial sperm cells and then fertilize an egg with it, using light to rewrite memories, the most realistic robotic hand ever made, Google applies their DeepMind AI Program to healthcare, and the ability to step into virtual reality. Artificial Sperm Cells That Work For Reproduction Scientists have used em

This week: Radically extending lifespans with genetic engineering, wirelessly charging self-driving cars, suturing wounds with lasers, mile high skyscraper to be built in Japan, and Elon Musk wants to build an electric powered jet that can vertically take of and land. Scientists Can Now Radically Extend The Lifespans of Mice – And Humans Could Be Next With a bit of clever genetic engineering, a team of scientists has just found an astonishing way to  significantly expand the

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: 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

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

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

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 13 Hue Lounge, San Francisco 10 PM, Ages: 21+ Free EDMSF & RAEIN ROCA PRESENT THE SEXY & ELEGANT WHITE PARTY AT THE BRAND NEW HUE SF MAIN ROOM (E

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

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

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

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

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