Aliens still talking to us? The plot thickens as new discovery perplexes astronomers as to the cause of split-second blasts of radio waves from billion light years away. Currently no existing theories seem to be able to explain the phenomenon.
Nanoscale "muscles" powered by DNA. Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have incorporated strands of custom DNA into different layers of flexible films to developed nanoscale "muscles." These films can be forced to bend, curl and even flip over by introducing the right DNA cue. One day, the flexing of these muscles could be used in diagnostic devices, capable of signaling changes in gene expression from within cells.
Super fluent translator by Google. It uses the technology, dubbed "neural machine translation," similar to what Google has been using for the past few years to identify people and objects in pictures stored in its Photos service.
Screws of light. Latest research shows that light can be brought into a corkscrew-like form in order to produce so-called "screws of light." In principle one can impose any number of windings into each light particles, breaking records on the transmission distance and the magnitude of quantum number.
Mathematics of coffee extraction. The authors' research also has the potential to inspire further models on different extraction processes, including unsaturated flow and the trapping of air pockets in a coffee bed, in the never-ending quest for a perfect cup of coffee.
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