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: Computers solving moral dilemmas, the world’s first electric highway, “Martian” crops, CRISPR gene modification approved for first human trial, and Japan to approve human trials for science based anti-aging drug. Structure Mapping Engine Allows Computers To Solve Moral Dilemmas Northwestern University’s Ken Forbus is closing

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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

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

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