Artificial blood vessels.
3D bioprinting has made new headway recently in fabricating blood vessels. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a method for 3D printing biological material using magnetically controlled robots.
Classcraft – a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game
Classcraft
Shawn Young, a high school physics, has a class full of warriors, mages, and healers. Warriors get to eat in class, mages can teleport out of a lecture, and healers can ask if an exam answer is correct. But this isn’t some Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy. This is education as it’s happening for over 7,000 kids in more than 25 countries right now. (Video)
Is the Internet of Things critical to the survival and growth of the enterprise?
Should we to add the Internet of Things to the top strategic technology priorities for the decade? That’s the question increasingly in front of IT decision makers these days as tech vendors add the buzz phrase to their marketing and practitioners evaluate the rapidly growing array of related tools and technologies.
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Graphene contact lenses could give everyone night vision
Contact lenses with night vision could be on the way.
We all might be able to experience soon the super hero ability of having night vision thanks to graphene contact lenses. Contact lenses one day in the near future will be able to register the entire infrared spectrum as well as visible and ultraviolet light, according to Zhaohui Zhong, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan.
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Scientists erase, then restore rats’ memories
Researchers can selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimulating nerves in the brain.
The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events.
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Solar Forest provides a charging station for electric cars
Solar Forest
We aren’t out of the woods yet when it comes to providing a steady supply of clean energy for electric vehicles. So, designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees. His photovoltaic grove serves a dual function, acting as a go-to source for clean renewable energy while providing a shady spot for cars to park as they charge.
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Tile creates the ‘world’s largest lost and found’
Tile makes sure you never lose anything ever again.
Wouldn’t it be great if you never lost anything you cared about ever again: your keys, your wallet, your favorite leather jacket? You could even tap into a large group of strangers to help you track down a stolen bike.
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Brave new world of biotech: Push one to create life; push two to create alien life
“We’re considering the possibility that you can write software for living things with bio-code (aka DNA).”
May was a good month for miracles. During these first weeks in May, two separate teams working at two separate institutions announced that when it comes to creating life from scratch, well, there are a couple of new gods in town.
Why pet owners are skipping the pet food aisle in favor of homemade pet food
Veterinarians say these pet food home chefs do it for different reasons.
We not only obsess over what we eat. We also obsess over what our pets eat. While the pet food industry has started adding salmon, vegetables and other ingredients humans favor to its products, the store-bought stuff just doesn’t make the cut anymore for some owners. They’re skipping the pet food aisle altogether in favor of cooking up big batches of Fido’s meals.
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How information will travel In the future
At the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, physicists were able to successfully “teleport” information over a distance of 10 feet, reports the New York Times.
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Evolving libraries still need people
The Greater Victoria Public Library allows patrons to check out passes to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Royal B.C. Museum.
The dawn of the Internet spawned predictions of the demise of libraries, made irrelevant by technology that puts infinite amounts of information at almost everyone’s fingertips.
Researchers discover new treatment for diabetes
Researchers discovered a small molecule that inhibits an enzyme that degrades insulin.
Harvard researchers may have finally identified a chemical compound that could be used to study and treat diabetes after decades of searching. They have discovered a whole different method for maintaining insulin in the blood: by blocking the enzyme that breaks it down.
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