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Origami: Art and Science

Robert Lang is a physicist who worked at NASA studying lasers and has 46 patents on optoelectronics to his name. However, that's not what he's best known for now: he's a legend in the world of origami. His intricate designs are second to none, and they actually have applications back in engineering.

Posted by Great Big Story on Thursday, March 16, 2017

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Neuralink connects Brains With Computers

Neuralink is pursuing “neural lace” technology, implanting tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts.

via Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers

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Growing Food Locally and Sustainably in Shipping Containers

Elon Musk’s brother, Kimbal, helped to create squarerootsgrow.com.  10 steel shipping container farms where young entrepreneurs work to develop vertical farming startups. Unlike traditional outdoor farms, vertical farms grow soil-free crops indoors and under LED lights.  Six weeks into the 12-month program, just after the entrepreneurs completed their first harvests

 

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Black as 10 Black Things – Not Photoshopped

Vantablack – “no spectrometer in the world is powerful enough to measure how much light it absorbs”

via This object has been sprayed with the world’s blackest material, and it’s freaking us out – ScienceAlert.

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Build Heart Muscle on Plant Leafs

Using the plant like scaffolding, scientists built a mini version of a working heart, which may one day aid in tissue regeneration.

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Slovenia Declaires Water a Constitutional Right

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/18/slovenia-adds-water-to-constitution-as-fundamental-right-for-all

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Plastic showing up on Hawaiian beaches …

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Geological Time Includes Now, Even on Comets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/21/scientists-captured-incredible-photographic-proof-of-a-landslide-on-a-comet/

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17 yo Indrani Das trying to solving Brain Injuries

Meet the winner of this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search: 17-year-old Indrani Das.

http://www.wsj.com/video/teen-scientist-pioneering-a-new-treatment-for-brain-damage/D7801099-CA0A-46A6-A9C0-33371D3A40B3.html

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The largest Artificial Sun

The “sun” will be used to to determine the optimal setup needed to to power a reaction that produces hydrogen fuel.  “We’d need billions of tonnes of hydrogen if we wanted to drive [airplanes] and cars on CO2-free fuel,” Hoffschmidt explained. “Climate change is speeding up so we need to speed up innovation.”

In the future, the facility may be used to test the durability of space travel parts when blasted by solar radiation, so not only could Synlight help us deal with our energy crisis here on Earth, it could help us explore worlds far beyond our own, too.

via The world’s largest ‘Artificial Sun’ has just been switched on in Germany – ScienceAlert.