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Oct 18, 2016

MIT nuclear fusion record marks latest step towards unlimited clean energy

Posted by in categories: innovation, nuclear energy

We are closer than ever to a world of unlimited energy.


Scientists create the highest plasma pressure ever recorded with the Alcator C-Mod reactor in a breakthrough for clean energy technology.

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Oct 18, 2016

An Electromagnetic Arms Race Has Begun: China Is Making Railguns Too

Posted by in categories: innovation, military

CASIC, a major Chinese defense contractor, has made major breakthroughs for China to build and deploy military railguns.

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Oct 18, 2016

Medical Innovations

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

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Oct 17, 2016

Scientists create live animals from artificial eggs in ‘remarkable’ breakthrough

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Artificial eggs have been grown in a petri dish for the first time and used to create living animals in a breakthrough hailed as ‘remarkable’ by British experts.

Scientists in Japan proved it is possible to take tissue cells from the tail of a mouse, reprogramme them as stem cells and then turn them into eggs in the lab.

The ‘eggs in a dish’ were then fertilised and the resulting embryos were implanted in female mice which went on to give birth to 11 healthy pups.

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Oct 11, 2016

Scholars call for probe into genome editing technology claims

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Chinese biologists reiterate doubts over validity of genome editing study

A number of Chinese scientists have announced publicly that they cannot replicate the breakthrough genome editing technology NgAgo discovered by a Hebei-based researcher, Han Chunyu, urging to investigate his team for the sake of “reputation of Chinese scientists.”

After months of study, 13 biologists including Wei Wensheng and Sun Yujie from Peking University’s School of Life Science, and other biologists from prestigious institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said publicly that they cannot replicate Han’s results, and called on Han to publicize his raw data.

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Oct 10, 2016

Robots That Teach Each Other

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

What if robots could figure out more things on their own and share that knowledge among themselves?

Availability: 3–5 years.

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Oct 9, 2016

How an Australian College Student Did What NASA Couldn’t

Posted by in categories: innovation, particle physics

Paddy Neumann kind of looks like someone who’s really into brewing beer. But back when he was a third year student at the University of Sydney, the now Dr. Neumann started on a course of experimentation that would see him beat innovations by NASA’s top scientists.

For his final research project, Neumann was working with the university’s plasma discharge, mapping the electric and magnetic charges around it. He noticed the particles moving through the machine were going really fast. In fact, they were clocking in at around 14 miles per second.

“I looked at my numbers from that final year project and thought, You could probably make a rocket out of this,” he says. Particularly when you consider that conventional hydrogen-oxygen rockets only get around 2.8 miles per second.

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Oct 7, 2016

The eight scientific breakthroughs set to revolutionise our future

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

A scientific breakthrough can unlock long-standing problems and have the potential to have a long-term impact on human wellbeing. But which UK project thrilled and amazed us in 2016?

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Oct 7, 2016

Glow-in-the-dark bike path lights the way in Poland

Posted by in categories: innovation, materials

Two years ago, Studio Roosegaarde created a glow-in-the-dark bike path in Eindhoven, Netherlands, helping to light the route in a exciting way. Inspired by that, a materials technology center in Lidzbark Warminski, Poland, has followed suit, with equally dazzling results.

The materials tech center, TPA Gesellschaft für Qualitätssicherung und Innovation (TPAQI), tells New Atlas that it first drew attention to the Eindhoven bike path at a local road forum event. The underlying concept was floated as a potential option for creating something that would reflect the beauty of the surrounding landscape.

Work began about a year ago, with lab tests into how the glowing effect would be created. A variety of different materials and colors were tested, with the aim of creating something that would both look great and that would increase safety for cyclists and pedestrians.

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Oct 6, 2016

Inside the 737 Test Plane That Boeing Beats the Bejesus Out Of — By Jack Stewart | Wired

Posted by in categories: innovation, transportation

“Pilots push the speeds to the limit, head to Bolivia for high altitude testing, and even try to fly with missing winglets. … We went aboard to see how it’s done.”

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