Science & Technology

Can Chemists Turn Pollution into Gold?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2016
Scientists are trying to convert carbon dioxide emissions into something of value—without using too much energy

By David Aragorn
Japan is about to test out plans for a real-life space elevator 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 27, 2016
The idea of a space elevator to lift us into orbit is one of the oldest concepts in sci-fi, but thanks to the efforts of scientists in Japan, we might soon be seeing this fantastic feat of engineering become a reality at last.

By David Aragorn
Space Mission Force Trains To Use Killer Satellites In Space Warfare: A New Type Of Soldier Is Needed To Fight In Space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 26, 2016
The U.S. military is preparing to deploy a new type of soldier to protect American interests where the country is most vulnerable, and that is in the limitless vacuum of outer space.

By David Aragorn
Nanotech breakthrough prints human tissue from stem cells 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 26, 2016
Israel’s Nano Dimension uses an inkjet process to print living human tissue in 3D. Next step, a printed liver or heart?

By Around the Web Editor
Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To Live Without Breathing 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 24, 2016
Can you imagine a navy seals capability when they wouldn’t need to surface for air and could stay underwater for over 20 minutes?

By Around the Web Editor
New remote-controlled microrobots for medical operations 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2016
For the past few years, scientists around the world have been studying ways to use miniature robots to better treat a variety of diseases. The robots are designed to enter the human body, where they can deliver drugs at specificlocations or perform precise operations like clearing clogged-up arteries. By replacing invasive, often complicated surgery, they could optimize medicine.

By David Aragorn
Five years after shuttle, NASA awaits commercial crew capsules 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 20, 2016
Five years after Atlantis completed the space shuttle program’s final voyage, NASA is still at least a year away from launching its astronauts from U.S. soil.

By David Aragorn
Time travelling to the mother tongue 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 19, 2016
The sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary new way.

By David Aragorn
Scientists create new thin material that mimics cell membranes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 19, 2016
Materials scientists have created a new material that performs like a cell membrane found in nature. Such a material has long been sought for applications as varied as water purification and drug delivery.

By David Aragorn
Scientists delve into ‘black box’ of DNA research 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 18, 2016
Scientists at Florida State University, Baylor College of Medicine and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT have broken ground in a little-understood area of human genetics.

By David Aragorn