We’d Need 1.7 Earths to Make Our Consumption Sustainable

President Donald Trump has acted on his campaign promises to reverse Obama’s environmental policies and proposed a budget that would significantly slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s funding in an effort to take federal responsibility out of environmental regulations. More recently, White House officials have met to discuss whether the United...
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Researchers cure diabetes in mice without side effects

Researchers at the University of Texas Health San Antonio report they have essentially cured type 1 diabetes in laboratory mice by using gene transfer. The discovery increases the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin, which represents a potential cure for type 1 diabetes and could end insulin dependence in...
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Watch drone footage of CERN's data centre

World class champion for drone freestyle driving and racing, Chad Nowak, came to CERN to record acrobatic footage. Watch this video to get a glimpse of the CERN data centre: the heart of CERN’s entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure.


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A Breakthrough in How We Treat Cancer Is on The Horizon

There’s been a push in the past few years to use genetic information to guide the treatment decisions of cancer patients. It’s something former President Barack Obama started tackling with his 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative. The excitement is logical: to treat cancer, it makes sense to have as much information as possible....
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A New Gene-Editing Technique Has Eliminated Acute HIV Infection in Living Animals

For the first time, researchers have used gene-editing to eliminate HIV DNA from the genomes of three different animal models to ensure that replication of the virus was completely shut down. The technique has been demonstrated in animals with both acute and latent HIV, and was successful in human immune...
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Boom! Supersonic Passenger Jet Coming by 2020

Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic has just partnered with startup Boom Technology to build a supersonic aircraft, Boom Technology announced. The plane would zip through the skies faster than the Concorde jet or any other commercial aircraft today, Boom Technology said. Aircraft that fly faster than the speed of sound...
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Several Massive Viruses Could be ‘Re-awakened’ if the Arctic Permafrost Continues to Thaw

Revitalised ancient viruses might one day get added to the list of ominous consequences of melting ice. Scientists working in the Arctic circle over the past few decades have unearthed several massive viruses that some say could be re-awakened if the permafrost that imprisons them dissolves. In 2015, researchers in Siberia uncovered...
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Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication For The First Time

Quantum communication is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication - a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients. Theoretical physicists have long proposed that such a form of communication would be possible, but now, for...
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Scientists Are at a Loss to Explain This Mysterious Cosmic Radio Signal

There are now 22 of them, and we still have no idea what they are, what they mean, or where in the Universe they come from - fast radio bursts, those brilliant bursts of energy that last mere milliseconds, but are a billion timesmore luminous than anything we’ve seen in...
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Earth’s forests grew 9% in a new satellite survey

The Age of Exploration may be long past, but even in the 21st century, our maps can still get a major update. Using satellite imagery, a new study has found hidden forests all over the world—almost enough for a second Amazon—in areas with little moisture known as drylands. Past estimates...
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A New Dinosaur Fossil Found in Alberta Is So Well-Preserved It Looks Like a Statue

Before being assembled into something recognisable at a museum, most dinosaur fossils look to the casual observer like nothing more than common rocks. No one, however, would confuse the over 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil for a stone. The fossil, being unveiled today in Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, is so...
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Carl Sagan – You Are Here (Pale Blue Dot)

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan’s suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet....
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Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 Launch Webcast (Live Now)

SpaceX is targeting launch of Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 51-minute launch window opens on Monday, May 15, at 7:20 p.m. EDT, or 23:20 UTC. A backup launch window opens on Tuesday, May 16, at 7:20 p.m. EDT,...
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For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic ‘Bridge’ Between Galaxies

For the first time, scientists have detected evidence of a magnetic field that’s associated with the vast intergalactic ’bridge’ that links our two nearest galactic neighbours. Known as the Magellanic Bridge, the bridge is a huge stream of neutral gas that stretches some 75,000 light-years between our two neighbouring galaxies,...
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New 3D-Printed Ovaries Have Allowed Infertile Mice to Give Birth

Human trials are on the cards. Infertile mice have been given the ability to birth healthy offspring, thanks to new 3D-printed ovaries that connected with the animals’ blood supply in just one week, and started releasing eggs. Researchers now plan on testing these artificial ovaries in pigs, and if all...
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Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space

Forget fuel-powered jet engines. We’re on the verge of having aircraft that can fly from the ground up to the edge of space using air and electricity alone. Traditional jet engines create thrust by mixing compressed air with fuel and igniting it. The burning mixture expands rapidly and is blasted...
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A Bioengineered 'Pancreas' Has Ended One Diabetic's Need For Insulin

Even the most exciting breakthrough medical treatment can be rendered obsolete by a particularly insurmountable obstacle: time.

If a treatment only works temporarily, it has little chance of making a significant difference in the lives of patients, which is why the latest news from the University of Miami's Diabetes Research Institute is so exciting.

A year after transplanting insulin-producing islet cells into the omentum of a woman with a particularly unwieldy form of type 1 diabetes, the cells continue to operate as hoped.

She no longer needs to receive insulin via injections or an insulin pump and is in good health....
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This New Device Can Hear The Actual Sounds Made by Individual Cells

Engineers have created a nano-sized optical fibre that can sense impossibly small forces, from the turbulence generated by swimming bacteria to the sound waves made by the beating of heart cells. Sensing in biological systems could even allow us to monitor individual cells and alert us to the subtle process...
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