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Scientists Discover How To Boil Water In Under A Trillionth Of A Second
With a breakthrough that will hopefully eventually trickle down to tea kettles, coffee machines, devised a way to boil waterto 600 degrees celsius in less than a trillionth of a second. To put that into perspective, as the folks at DESY point out, one picasecond is to a second what one second is to 32,000…
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The World’s Awesomest Scientists Invent Cavity-Free Lolly
With a breakthrough that will finally help Halloween top Christmas as the best holiday ever, scientists at the Berlin-based biotech lab Organo Balance claim to have developed a lolly that doesn’t cause cavities. You’ll still get sick and pack on the kilos from gorging on sweets, but if you forget to brush your teeth, your…
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A Rehab Machine That Lets Patients See Their Muscles In Motion
A skilled physiotherapist can get your body working again after an injury, but even they can’t see your inner workings while you’re rebuilding muscle. So a team of researchers from Saitama University have developed a rehabilitation machine that generates a virtual representation of the muscles in your arm letting you, and your physician, see them…
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Four-Winged Flying Robot Drifts On Breezes Like An Airborne Jellyfish
It seems logical that if you’re designing a flying robot, you might borrow a few ideas from Mother Nature’s airborne repertoire. But researchers at NYU instead too their inspiration from under the sea for this unusual robotic craft that flies through the air the same way a jellyfish moves through the ocean.