See that thing at the top of the page? Well thanks to the magic of science brain tumour patients will soon be able to experience the thrill of having something like that burrowing through their brains! In nature, female wood wasps have a serated ovipositor that they use to plant eggs deep inside trees, causing bother for honey-seeking bears everywhere. This idea has now been married to robotics by scientists at imperial college London. Team member Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena claims:
“It can insinuate itself into the tissue with the minimum amount of force,”
Insinuate. Into the tissue. Great use of language to sell the thing there Fernando! Still, even an insectophobe like me recognises this is better than a tumour, and I cant wait for somebody to weaponize this fucker. LINK (New Scientist)
Ok, so there’s no news yet whether or not there’ll be space for Raquel Welch, but that hasn’t stopped Dr. Dan Peer, of Tel Aviv University’s own Department of Cell Research and Immunology building a tiny submarine with the full intention of injecting into your buttocks (should you become ill of course). In great news for the sickly among you Dr Peer tells us:
“Our lab is creating biological nano-machines, which can target specific cells. In fact, we can target any protein that might be causing disease or disorder in the human body. This new invention treats the source, not the symptoms.”
In essence, the machines are guided by biological functions, following immune cells to diseased areas and delivering RNAi, a drug system that works by reprogramming faulty RNA information at a cellular level. So, a fantastic, all natural cure for nearly any disease coming soon, followed by an amazing adventure for Dennis Quaid. There is no downside to this. LINK (AFTVU)
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Quite frankly incoprehensable news from the world of science today. Apparantly the planet ane everything on it could be holograms. I’m not sure I really get it.
The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard ‘t Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.
The 3D information about a precursor star can be completely encoded in the 2D horizon of the subsequent black hole – not unlike the 3D image of an object being encoded in a 2D hologram. Susskind and ‘t Hooft extended the insight to the universe as a whole on the basis that the cosmos has a horizon too – the boundary from beyond which light has not had time to reach us in the 13.7-billion-year lifespan of the universe.
Whuh? Yeah, no, I didn’t get it either. Read more, if you can get your head round it at New Scientist LINK
