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Scientists Gene-Hack Spider to Produce Bright-Red Silk

Researchers used the popular gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to produce red fluorescent silk. Scientists are hoping that the US Navy and Air Force-funded research could lead to the development of new "supermaterials" TK, Fast Company reports. ...

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Scientists Gene-Hack Spider to Produce Bright-Red Silk

Futurism

Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark

The shoehorning of AI into everything has programmers at Amazon feeling less like the tedious parts of their jobs are being smoothly automated, and more like their work is beginning to resemble the drudgery of toiling away in one of the e-commerce giant's vast warehouses. That's the bleak picture painted ...

7 hours ago

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Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark

Futurism

Scientists Startled by Discovery of Small Star Swimming Through Outer Layers of Another Larger Star

A team of researchers in China have discovered a stunning binary star system where a stellar object known as a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star — after stripping its host's innards and dispersing them into space. The findings, detailed in a new study published in the journal ...

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Scientists Startled by Discovery of Small Star Swimming Through Outer Layers of Another Larger Star

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Scientists Want You to Ink an Electronic Tattoo On Your Forehead So Your Boss Can Detect Your Mental State

Burned out but too anxious to admit it to your boss" Or are you just bad at knowing when to take a break" In either case, a new device could be just what you need — if you're willing to rock some temporary face tats. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Device, researchers have created ...

9 hours ago

Futurism

Scientists Want You to Ink an Electronic Tattoo On Your Forehead So Your Boss Can Detect Your Mental State

Futurism

Another Bodybuilder Just Died a Horrible Death

After quitting the bizarre injections that puffed up his muscles, a Russian bodybuilder has become the latest in a long and unfortunate line of pro weightlifters to meet untimely demises. As The Sun reports, 35-year-old Nikita Tkachuk hadn't injected synthol — a so-called "site enhancement oil" primarily ...

10 hours ago

Futurism

Another Bodybuilder Just Died a Horrible Death

New York Times Science

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Who Developed the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98

He became an advocate of a woman’s right to choose and once said, “It is always tragic when politics takes the most vulnerable hostage — in this case, women.”

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New York Times Science

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Who Developed the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98

Futurism

Tesla Can't Find Legal Places to Store All Its Unsold Cybertrucks

Tesla is seriously struggling to find enough room for all of its Cybertrucks. The highly divisive and increasingly unpopular pickups have been piling up in the parking lot of a shuttered Bed Bath & Beyond store in a Detroit suburb shopping center, violating local code, Automotive News reports. The ...

10 hours ago

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Tesla Can't Find Legal Places to Store All Its Unsold Cybertrucks

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New York Times Science

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Dwarf Planet Very Far From the Sun

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach its closest point to the sun is in the year 26186.

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New York Times Science

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Dwarf Planet Very Far From the Sun

Singularity HUB

New Gene Therapy Reverses Three Diseases With Shots to the Bloodstream

The treatments rescued damaged blood and immune cells in newborn mice with just one shot. The post New Gene Therapy Reverses Three Diseases With Shots to the Bloodstream appeared first on SingularityHub.

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Singularity HUB

New Gene Therapy Reverses Three Diseases With Shots to the Bloodstream

WIRED Science

Is Using a Stair Machine the Same as Climbing Stairs?

According to physics, one burns more calories than the other—and the winner might surprise you.

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WIRED Science

Is Using a Stair Machine the Same as Climbing Stairs?

National Science Foundation

Learning occurs quicker than thought, according to brain imaging

Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation have provided a new understanding of how and where learning occurs in the brain. The two-part finding has implications for understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases like…

2 days ago

National Science Foundation

Learning occurs quicker than thought, according to brain imaging

National Science Foundation

New tools to identify and monitor cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular diseases cause one death every 33 seconds in America. Diagnosing these conditions, which account for approximately 20% of all deaths annually, can be difficult because the overlaying and natural fluorescence of cardiac tissue…

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National Science Foundation

New tools to identify and monitor cardiovascular disease

WIRED Science

Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans

Anna’s hummingbirds have evolved to have longer, larger beaks to access backyard feeders in urban areas. It could be a step toward becoming a “commensal” species that lives alongside humans, like pigeons.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans

New York Times Science

China Launches Tianwen-2 Mission to Capture Pieces of Near-Earth Asteroid

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

China Launches Tianwen-2 Mission to Capture Pieces of Near-Earth Asteroid