A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery marks a significant step toward creating a “bionic eye” that could someday help blind people see or sighted people see better.
READ MOREThe mysterious lights were seen by thousands of people, there’s video evidence, and people are saying posts disappeared from social media. What happened?
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READ MORENASA scientists have paid their first visit to an island that rose out of the sea from the rim of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga when it erupted in 2015.
READ MOREScientists have long known that Jupiter is a stormy place. But since NASA’s Juno probe reached the solar system’s largest planet last July, they’ve found it to be a far more tempestuous place than they realized.
READ MOREA single drop of solvent swirls like a tiny dancer atop a beaker of water, gradually jettisoning away little round bits of itself until nothing remains. Some who saw it thought it looked like a spinning galaxy, or the world’s tiniest hurricane. All who saw it wondered what the heck was going on — and that includes the researchers who conducted the experiment in 2011.
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