An innovative and tiny thruster design could prove the future of interplanetary exploration with the tiny satellites known as CubeSats. … More
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2015 Synthetic Biology Highlights
Top ten synthetic biology accomplishments. 1. Leukemia patient in remission after treatment with SynBio immune cells One-year-old Layla’s life was … More
Scaling DNA production in 2016
Nimble startups are competing to fashion automated DNA assembly lines that would make Henry Ford proud, using techniques copied from … More
China should complete a 50,000 ton domestic aircraft carrier early in 2016
China is building its second aircraft carrier in Dalian of northeast China’s Liaoning province, said a Defense Ministry spokesperson in … More
Can Social Insects Have a Civilization?
I first encountered Michael Chorost in his fine book World Wide Mind (Free Press, 2011), which looks at the relationship … More
Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have produced the toughest fibers ever measured
Spider silk is one of the more extraordinary materials known to science. The protein fiber, spun by spiders to make … More
16 million neurons and 4 billion synapses in a carry on suitcase form factor
A few months ago, IBM unveiled the NeuroSynaptic Evaluation (NS1e) board, which contained a single TrueNorth chip, along with circuitry … More
Student Experiments Vital for Space Research, Spaceflight Meeting Founder Says
The International Symposium on Private and Commercial Spaceflight is a meeting for the industry’s top leaders and innovators, but according … More
Splendide lever de Terre photographié par LRO
Une fois n’est pas coutume, la sonde LRO a détourné ses yeux de son principal sujet d’investigation, la Lune, pour … More
Taiwan would need 200 or more fifth generation fighter jets for a credible deterrence by 2017-2019
New advances by China on its J-20 stealth fighter diminishes deterrence across the Taiwan Strait, a leading weapons expert in … More
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