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All Stories in Science News 2012

Earth Within a Human Simulator

The Simulator to End All Simulation

As enticing as this may sound, it’s not exactly the game on simulator experience I’m sure most of you are thinking of. The latest idea that hit the minds of our world’s scientists is so far-fetched it’s captivating. The entire “brain community” of this world …

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Instant Cancer Detection Now Possible With Lab-On-A-Chip

Instant Cancer Detection Now Possible With Lab-On-A-Chip

What do you think about when you picture a medical laboratory? Probably a room (or an entire building) filled with strange equipment, chemicals with funny names and more people in white coats than you’d like to see all your life. But what do you do …

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Programmable Bacteria

Programmable Bacteria

The scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have created a new type of bacteria, which can be programmed just like a computer, therefore bridging the biological and digital world. According to synthetic biologist Christopher A. Voigt, researchers built “logic gates” out of genes …

200 Years of Human Progress in 4 Minutes (Video)

200 Years of Human Progress in 4 Minutes (Video)

Let’s face it: even though it’s a great cure for insomnia, statistics doesn’t usually make for great entertainment. That is, unless the man presenting the statistics is Swedish international health professor Hans Rosling. In BBC Four’s newest documentary series, The Joy Of Stats, he takes …

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XWave is a Brain Wave Interface for Apple Devices

XWave is a Brain Wave Interface for Apple Devices

Controlling your iPhone or iPad with your mind sounds like an enticing proposition. Apparently PLX Devices agrees, that’s why they put out a brainwave interface specifically tailored for use with Apple devices. The XWave is a sensor-equipped headset which picks up electromagnetic brain waves and …

3D Holographic Car

Holographic TVs Available in 7 to 10 Years

The University of Arizona has been working on holographic technology since 1990, but recent developments made the scientists believe a holographic TV could be on the market as early as 2017. Researchers just created the fastest 3D motion hologram, which was inspired mainly by Star …

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