1. A paralyzed woman can control her electronic hand with thought
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University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurobiology for 13 weeks worked with 52-year-old Jan Schoermann to create a robotic arm that Ian could control with thoughts alone.
A team of scientists implanted her with two 96-channel intracranial microelectrode. They placed them in the motor cortex, which controls the movement of body members. Already on the second day, Ian was able use your new hand. At the end of 13 weeks, she is already could perform complex tasks related to the movement of the arm in seven planes, which corresponds to the movements of a real hand.
To date, no negative side effects of implantation.
2. DARPA robot learned to overcome the lane obstacles
And as soon as he understands how to do it without all kinds of wires, humanity is doomed. DARPA also worked hard at 2012, teaching robots to track people and run at speed cheetah that looks like a great combination of qualities without any possibility of frightening side effects.
3. Genetically modified silk is stronger steel
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At the University of Wyoming, scientists modified a group of mulberries silkworms so that they produce silk, which is relative to it weight is stronger than steel. The possibilities of its application almost limitless – starting from stronger threads for surgery, a biodegradable alternative to plastic, and ending with ultra-light armor for military use.
4. For the first time in the world managed to photograph DNA
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Using an electron microscope, Enzo di Fabrizio and his team from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa managed to get the first photos of the famous double helix.
5. Invisibility technology made a huge leap forward
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Last year, HyperStealth Biotechnology from British Columbia demonstrated a functioning prototype its new tech fabric to the military of America and Canada. Material, titled “Quantum Stealth,” bends light waves around its media without using batteries, mirrors, or cameras. He is hiding an object from observation not only in the visible spectrum, but also from infrared thermal scanners.
6. Sprayed skin
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Avita Medical’s “ReCell” technology is the salvation for victims of severe burns. In this technology, a piece of the patient’s skin the size of a postage stamp is mixed with enzymes obtained from pigs, and sprayed on the burn site. Every transplanted a piece grows to the size of a book page in one weeks. And since donor skin is taken from the patient himself, the risk rejection is minimal.
7. James Cameron reached the deepest known point Oceans
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James Cameron became the first person to be alone plunged to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. With its depth of 11 kilometers, this is perhaps a more unfamiliar place for scientists than some alien planets. Cameron’s underwater bathyscaphe in the form of “vertical torpedoes” in two and a half hours plunged to the bottom hollows and took many different patterns.
8. Stem cells can extend human life more than a hundred years
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When at the Pittsburgh Institute for Regenerative Medicine fast-aging mice with an average life of 21 days introduced stem cells from younger mice obtained The results were stunning. When mice were injected with cells for 4 days before their alleged death, the mice not only survived – but also lived three times longer than usual, about 71 days. In terms human existence is the equivalent of 80 years of life would suddenly stretch to 200.
9. 3D printer prints full-fledged homes in one pass
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Enrico Dini’s 3D D-Shape Printer Capable of print two-story houses with all rooms, stairs, pipeline and ceilings. When using only sand and inorganic binder compound as a result material with characteristics identical to reinforced concrete, and according to reminiscent of marble. The construction process takes about a quarter of the time required for traditional buildings – as long as the house being built has a rounded form, and can be conducted without any special knowledge and skills.
10. Self-driving cars have become legal in Nevada, Florida and California
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Google began testing its unmanned cars in early 2012 and by May Nevada became the first state allowing them to move on their roads. To date the total battery life of these vehicles is more than 300 thousand hours, and during this time only two happened to them incident – and both at a time when they were controlled manually.
11. VoyagerI left the solar system
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Launched in 1977, Voyager I is the first to be created. human object that has broken beyond our solar system and went into deep space. He was originally programmed to send photos of Saturn and Jupiter to Earth, but NASA scientists quickly realized that the device will sooner or later fly into suspense. And so the collection was posted on Voyager I sound recordings from music to singing whales, and greetings at 55 languages.
12. The jaw graft is printed on three-dimensional printer
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A specialized prosthesis was created for an 83-year-old patient jawbone made of titanium powder and bioceramic coating. This is the first precedent in history and its successful transplantation. opens the door to individualized bone replacement, and perhaps one day it will be possible to print new muscles and organs.
13. A wandering planet drifts through space
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Until this year, scientists knew for sure that planets revolve around stars. And then the planet CFBDSIR2149 appeared. Having a mass equal to 4-7 Jupiter masses, this is the first freely drifting object that officially recognized as an exoplanet, not a brown dwarf.
14. Chimera monkeys are made up of multiple embryos
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Although all donor cells were taken from rhesus monkeys, researchers combined six different embryos into three cubs Rhesus. According to Dr. Mitalipov’s statement, “The cells did not merge, but they held together and together formed tissues and organs. ” Chimera creatures are used to understand the role of specific genes. in embryo development and may help in a better understanding of genetic mutations in humans.
15. Artificial leaves generate electricity
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Using relatively inexpensive materials, Daniel Noser created The world’s first practically applicable artificial sheet. Self-sustaining leaves mimic the process of photosynthesis, but in the result is hydrogen instead of oxygen. Hydrogen can then trapped in fuel cells and used to obtain electricity even in the most remote corners of the Earth.
16. Google glasses bring ubiquitous the Internet
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Everyone must have seen videos showing the vision future by Google. With their glasses, they intend to add a graphical interface to everyday life. Driving glasses with voice and gaze, you can view information with them, surf the net or establish communication connections.
17. Found Higgs boson
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In the summer, a multinational team of scientists from the CERN center confirmed that they found a particle behaving in sufficient least like the Higgs boson to get the right to wear it title. For scientists, this means that nature can exist. and a Higgs field similar to an electromagnetic one. And this in turn can give scientists the opportunity to interact with the mass just as this is currently being done with a magnetic field.
18. Flexible, low-cost solar panels challenge fossil fuels
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For half the price of the cheapest solar to date Cells, Twin Creeks Hyperion Technology Uses ion cannon for bombardment of elements with the thickness of a wafer sheet. The result is commercially available, easily manufactured solar panels. panels that supply energy for about 40 cents per watt.
19. Diamond planet discovered
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Exoplanet, made entirely of diamond, was discovered in the past year by an international team of researchers. At size about five times the size of the earth, the planet has mass equal to the mass of Jupiter. Scientists believe that taking into account the close location to his star in combination with a mass of exoplanet, she is the remains of another star and consists mainly of crystalline carbon.
20. Eye implants give vision to the blind
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Two blind people in the UK have implanted eye implants in an eight-hour operation with promising results. After many years of blindness, both regained their sight within a matter of weeks, starting to distinguish the contours of objects and their colors. Scientists expect further improvements as their brains adapt to new vision.
21. In Wales, compiled a DNA file of all plants in the country
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In Wales, the DNA database of all 1,143 indigenous plants of the country. With over 5700 plant barcodes can now be identified by photographs of their seeds, roots, trunks or pollen. The goal of creating this database is to help scientists in tracking things like bee migration patterns or resettlement of plants in new territories. Scientists hope someday create a barcode database of all animals and plants the planet.
22. The first unmanned commercial space shuttle docked with the orbital station
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SpaceX Corporation docked its unmanned cargo Dragon ship with international space station. This event marks the first ever private company sent its cargo into orbit. Robotic arm on space the station managed to capture the capsule, and this opens the way for the era cargo flights into space.
23. Ultra-flexible glass “Willow” allows you to create curved electronic displays
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The super-flexible glass prototype has a thickness of only 0.05 millimeter is the thickness of the paper sheet. It opens the widest possibilities for creating portable computer devices and displays.
24. NASA begins to use robotic exoskeletons
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X1 robotic exoskeleton weighs about 23 kilograms and consists of four motorized and six passive joints. Having two sets of settings, it can either impede movement – for example helping astronauts to train in space, or to assist him – for example, helping paralyzed people to walk.
25. The human brain is hacked
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Usenix Security Research Team Used readily available technologies to show how truly vulnerable the human brain. Using a set of EEG sensors and software software to determine the activity of neurons, they managed calculate the ATM pin code by observing bursts of activity in to the brain.
26. The first planet with four discovered the suns
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Discovered by amateur astronomers, this planet rotates on close orbit of a pair of stars, which in turn revolves around pairs of more distant stars. It has approximate dimensions. Neptune, so scientists are still trying to figure out how the planet burst by the gravitational forces of so many stars.
27. Microsoft presented the technology “Holodeck”
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According to this patent, Microsoft plans to make video games for the limits of a single screen and project them onto the room environment taking into account, for example, the furniture placed in it.
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