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World’s First ‘Nanofish’ Coming To Swim Drugs Up Your Bloodstream
If the idea of a robot fish swimming through your veins elicits a Cronenberg-ian chill up your spine, you might want to brace yourself. Researchers at U.C. San Diego have created the first nanofish, the New Scientist reports — a magnet-powered bot that they hope to use for targeted delivery of medication, non-invasive surgery and…
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New MIT Tech Can Read Pages Inside Closed Books… And Beat Internet CAPTCHAs
How does one read a book without opening it? Why would you want to read a closed book in the first place? While not a common problem, it’s enough of one that MIT research scientist Barmak Heshmet decided to have a crack and came up with a system that uses terahertz radiation, femto-photography and air…
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This Melbourne Hip-Hop Artist Just Released An Entire Music Video On Snapchat
Video: I’m not a millennial. I’m not very good at social media. I can’t even get a 10-second Snapchat video to work properly. If you need someone to educate you on that, though, meet Melbourne hip-hop artist Ryland Rose — he’s your guy. Ry just debuted his new single, Almost Famous & Broke, entirely through…
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The Face Of An Egyptian Mummy Recreated By A Melbourne Forensic Sculptor
It almost defies belief what modern science is capable of. Take this facial reconstruction of Meritamen, a mummified Egyptian woman who may have lived anywhere from 2000-3500 years ago. The reconstruction was conducted by scientists and researchers from Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and many others.