Droplet Of Oil Navigates a Maze As Well As a Lab Rat
Successfully navigating a complex maze is the basic lab test for intelligence. Rats can do it. Cuttlefish can do it. And now, inanimate droplets of oil can do it. By creating…
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For victims of strokes, serious face injuries, or degenerative muscular diseases, losing the ability to blink threatens to compound their condition with corneal ulcers, or even eventual blindness. To...
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While the ECG machine, whose steady beep and jagged line TV medical dramas long ago planted into the popular imagination, remains the most common method for monitoring heart activity, a new device...
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Unlike antibiotics, which kill many different types of bacteria, antiviral drugs for the most part need to target individual, specific viruses. A drug that attacks a multitude of viruses -- an...
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Droplet Of Oil Navigates a Maze As Well As a Lab Rat
Science Successfully navigating a complex maze is the basic lab test for intelligence. Rats can do it. Cuttlefish can do it. And now, inanimate droplets of oil can do it. By creating… Successfully...
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First-Response Balloon Plugs Up Battlefield Wounds
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First Artificial Muscles Used to Control Eyelids
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Video: Bacteria Transformed Into Living, Blinking Clocks Could Provide...
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Video: Artificial Organs Made With A Printer, Grown From Scratch
Technology Best of What's New winner Anthony Atala explains how to whip up a useable heart on an old inkjet machine In 2006, Anthony Atala conducted a routine organ transplant. Well, the procedure was...
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New Chip Provides Cheap At-Home Sperm Counting
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Creating Synthetic Bacteria From Existing Genomes Easier Than Building From...
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Magnetoscope Monitor Measures Heart's Magnetic Field to Detect Problems Early
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Compound LJ001 Acts Like Antibiotic Against Viruses
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Insulin Can Now Be Made Cheaply from Flowers
Science First it came from pigs, then GM bacteria. Now, the garden In 1922, Canadian scientists isolated insulin for the first time. Now, over 80 years later, our neighbors to the north are helping...
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