4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 8
Something special in seal blood; a whole new angle on prosthetic ankles; a nanotech inspiration from single-celled architects; and sure, there may be “gold in them thar hills,” but there’s a quadrillion tons of diamonds in the Earth’s interior. It’s your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all… Read more »
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 19
The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth, slipping into something solar, wet and dry disease, and mucus modifications to save lives The Whole Tooth The Whole Tooth: New Method to Find Biological Sex From a Single Tooth UC Davis, USAFA, Arizona State University, George Mason University, DOD http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2018/11/09/whole-tooth-new-method-find-biological-sex-single-tooth/ Floodwaters and Disease Floodwater in rivers… Read more »
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 9
A new target for antibiotics, a dodecahedron device for the deep sea, electronic stickers to scale up the Internet of Things, and self-fertilizing bacteria with rhythm. It’s your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National Science Foundation. Who did the research? Studying aliens… Read more »
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 20
Sleepless in Angryville, greenhouse gas gobblers, handy robot gloves, and counting on drones For more information on these discoveries: Robot Gloves https://news.stanford.edu/2018/11/21/stanford-develops-electronic-glove-gives-robots-sense-touch/ Stanford Greenhouse Gas Gobbers https://news.utexas.edu/2018/11/27/newly-discovered-deep-sea-microbes-gobble-greenhouse-gases-and-perhaps-oil-spills-too/ UT Austin, UNC at Chapel Hill Sleepless in Angryville https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/11/27/sleepanger Iowa State University Drones & Marine Megafauna https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/11/drones-marine-megafauna/ North Carolina State University
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 10
Genes turn on, fluids go surfing, radioactivity spills from a cosmic collision, and an oceanic plate crashes the party at Earth’s mantle. It’s your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National Science Foundation. For more information, refer to these news articles: Imaging in… Read more »