Author: Sic

SpaceIL, a privately owned Space Exploration team from Israel announced this week they were the first team to secure a launch contract to send their own private rover to the moon. The US$30 million contract is a prize for winning the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. The first private lunar mission in the world will be on launched from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket by Spaceflight Industries and is scheduled for the second half of 2017.

http://interestingengineering.com/israeli-spaceil-is-the-first-to-sign-a-contract-for-a-private-mission-to-the-moon/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74VEL22U_0o

Myriad Genetics had argued it held the patent over the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genes which, if present, dramatically increase a woman’s chance of developing breast and ovarian cancer.

But Yvonne D’Arcy, 69, argued the genes existed in nature, so were discovered rather than invented.

The company succeeded twice in the Federal Court, but the High Court today overturned those decisions as it ruled unanimously in Ms D’Arcy’s favour.

via Brisbane grandmother Yvonne D’Arcy celebrates High Court victory in battle over BRCA-1 cancer gene patent – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/zombie-spiders

“For the first time, we have solved the problem of harvesting usable energy from a small radio frequency signal.”

http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-electricity-harvested-from-the-air-could-power-our-smart-home-gadgets

Video of  white blood cell chasing a bacterium through a field of red blood cells.  Click the link for a another video where the cells look more like ants on the attack of a worm.

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http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/white-blood-cells-attack