It’s the kind of brilliant yet simple invention that would have the tycoons of the Dragon’s Den salivating with excitement.
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Invention: Plasma-powered flying saucer
This week’s new patent applications include a way to levitate a saucer-shaped vehicle, fixing damaged spines with transplants from cadavers and a way to tame tangled nanotubes
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“Extremophile” bacteria pose amazing ideas for alien life
New discovery about bacteria may dramatically increase possible locations for alien life.
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‘World’s oldest tree’ discovered in Dalarna
Swedish researchers have uncovered a stand of spruce trees with an 8,000-year-old tree root system in Dalarna, making it among the oldest in the world.
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Ecologists go holistic to measure ecosystem health
When it comes to measuring an area’s biodiversity, top predators such as tigers get all the ink, but smaller species may give a better overall picture
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Human spit contains 1,116 unique proteins
U.S. researchers have identified all 1,116 unique proteins found in human saliva glands, a discovery they said on Tuesday could usher in a wave of convenient, spit-based diagnostic tests that could be done without the need for a single drop of blood.
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A Map of the First Moonwalk (PIC)
A map of the first moonwalk (as in Neal & Buzz, not Michael) laid out over a soccer pitch for scale.
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Protein ‘map’ of human spit created
The discovery that could usher in more convenient, saliva-based diagnostic tests for a range of different diseases
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Voiceless Phone Calls Now Possible
Audeo has just demonstrated their subvocal speech input device in a new context; a neckband that translates thought into speech by interpreting signals sent from the brain to the vocal chords. Audeo used it in their Thinking Man’s Wheelchair for quadraplegics demonstrated last September.
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Bird Brains Suggest How Vocal Learning Evolved
In all three groups of birds with vocal learning abilities — songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds — the brain structures for singing and learning to sing are embedded in areas controlling movement, the researchers discovered.
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