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Biologists Have Created a Software That Automates the Design of DNA
So far there is a programming language for living cells. According to Christopher Voigt, a lead biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, there is new software that will...
STARythm; Sleep-Improving Neurotechnology
By 2017, there should be access to a headset that improves the quality of sleep. It has been produced by French firm Rhythm, who have received a private investment of...
Humans With Certain Genetic Mark May be Highly Vulnerable to Marijuana Addiction
As a new study implies, humans with given genetic markers may be highly vulnerable to marijuana addiction. The study discovered a connection between signs of marijuana use and three genetic...
Immigrants Have Been Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
It seems that immigration is good for US business as start-ups worth $1 billion or more are started by immigrants. The Arlington-based think tank National Foundation for American Policy has...
HWScientists in Japan Made a Skin That Replicates Function of Tissue
Scientists in Japan made a skin by first creating 3-Dimentional clusters of cells that looked like womb embryos. These embryo-like cells were then implanted into mice that had an immune...
Minecraft Helps Kids With Autism Build Life Skills
Children with ASD – autism spectrum disorder are playing Minecraft in school and the 8-11-year-olds seem like any other children at this point. Like many others, Hamish Ellen would wander...
HWGeologists Will Drill into Heart of Dinosaur-Killing Deep Impact
Further research is expected to start in April in Mexico and will be focused on the 66 million-year-old Chicxulub crater that is the site where the dinosaur destroying asteroid hit...
HWThe World’s First Life-Saving Gene Therapy For Children Has the Green Light
Italian scientists along with SmithGlaxoKline, are likely to have gene therapy approved for use in Europe and many children with faulty genes will benefit. Strimvelis has been endorsed by the...
Heart Disease Could be Limited With This New Drug
Heart disease could soon be limited if the drug being tested stops eggs and meat having the choline turned into artery blocking compounds. Last year tests on mice showed that...
HWUncomfortable Truths About Photography
Photography is becoming more popular as a hobby and the development of cameras on phones is helping to get people involved. However, there are still problems and they are best...
HWHow Much Money Would be Needed to Build a new New York City
Some people are wondering how much money would be needed to build a new New York City and the surrounding area. This would include roads, trains, bridges and subways along...
How Neanderthal Left Their Mark on Human Beings
It seems that some people contain a small amount of Neanderthal DNA. Pacific Island dwellers have Denisovans DNA while many others have other genes. Dr. Joshua Akey finds the area...
HWA Trash Incinerator in Norway Begins Carbon-Capture Testing
Since January, there have been attempts made to capture carbon dioxide from burning rubbish. In Oslo’s Klemetsrud incinerator household waste is burned and it is hoped this experiment will show...
HWGermany Needs to Build 3,000 Wind Turbines To Replace a Nuclear Power Plant
Lower Saxony boasts the most productive nuclear power plant ever. In China, the Three Gorges Dam is the largest, but it would be unfair to compare them carefully. It is...
Technology brings substance to sustainability
Sustainability has been the buzz word for corporations for some time. They want their brand to be known as sustainable, but there have been limitations. The people who are trying...
HWThe Earth’s Oceans Will Have More Plastic Than Fish by 2050
It has been estimated that we use 300 million tons of plastic per year and often it an item that is used just once. Seabirds are at risk as a...
Researcher Used Fluid Dynamics to Explain How Quickly Vampires Could Drain Your Blood
It is 85 years since Bela Lugosi’s Dracula was released and it coincides with some unusual research from students at Leicester University. The Physics and Chemistry Department have been using...
MOBThese Brain Stimulating Headphones Will Make You a Better Athlete
Brain stimulating headphones are being worn by cyclist Dan Chao and by using these on a stationary bike, his performance has improved on his normal bike. He is a co-founder...
Abandoned Factory Becomes a Floating Field of Fishes and Algae
Floating Fields uses public space for an edible landscape and replicating the ecology that was once defining the Pearl River Delta. The fish ponds that were once the form of...
MOBSamsung Galaxy S7 Edge VS Hydraulic Press
We have seen the destruction of the smartphones very long time. Some people want to test the limits of the phones; some just want some YouTube viewers, and some have...
HWEight Percent of Our DNA is Non-Human
We have around 8% alien DNA and by this, we mean it is viral fragments that are not human. This also applies to other things on earth that are equipped...
Jurassic World Starts With Chicken Legs
We have to change the way we think about the extinction of dinosaurs, as it seems that not all disappeared, but some turned to the birds we know today. Chilean...
HWFastest Growing Solar Energy Project on Earth is About to Collapse
Did you know that the fastest growing solar energy project on earth is about to collapse? Ivanpah, a two-point-two billion solar power plant in California has recorded a drop in...
Recycling Cigarette Butts And Turning Them Into Plastic
Everywhere you look there are cigarette ends – making a mess of the street and beaches. Recycling companies cannot deal with it and due to the make-up of the contents...
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