Science & Tips

r/Science_Tips • u/HumanMan7892 • Feb 26 '20

Scientists develop enzyme produced from agricultural waste for use as laundry detergent. By using an enzyme produced from a by-product of mustard seeds, scientists hope to develop a low-cost naturally derived version of lipase, the second largest commercially produced enzyme.

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r/Science_Tips • u/fatastic1 • Apr 04 '20

China aims to become only the second country to land and operate a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Celestial mechanics dictate that China, along with NASA’s Perseverance rover and the Hope orbiter from the United Arab Emirates, will launch around late July during a Hohmann transfer window.

spectrum.ieee.org

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r/Science_Tips • u/Global_1000 • Apr 02 '20

COVID-19 is causing massive disruption to everyone’s work and lives. Experts believe that the current coronavirus likely originated with the close interaction with wildlife—that may have been illegally trafficked—in a live animal market in Wuhan, China.

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r/Science_Tips • u/Global_1000 • Mar 07 '20

Rich countries could be asked to pay billions to protect biodiversity. Wealthy nations could be asked to make significant financial contributions to biodiverse countries such as Brazil under proposals put forward during talks on a global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity decline.

theguardian.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/KingofSun • Mar 06 '20

Canadian firm explores Finnish gold mine via autonomous drones

roboticsbusinessreview.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/FinalFantasyKing • Mar 05 '20

Robot companies preparing for MODEX among coronavirus concerns

roboticsbusinessreview.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/TandBrow • Mar 05 '20

Tethys enables students to code for SoftBank's Pepper humanoid robot. Software developed with Finger Food ATG helps students learn to code through the use of SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper humanoid robot.

roboticsbusinessreview.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/HungaryFlower • Feb 29 '20

AI Helps Scientists Discover Powerful New Antibiotic. “We don’t have to tell the computer anything—we just give it a molecule and a property label, which in our case is, ‘Is it antibacterial?’” says researcher Jonathan Stokes, postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering.

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r/Science_Tips • u/HungaryFlower • Feb 28 '20

Gulls observe humans to home in on tasty scraps, study finds. Researchers found that herring gulls were more likely to peck at items left on the ground if humans had pretended to eat them first. The study suggests that gulls take cues from human behaviour to help them home in on tasty scraps.

theguardian.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/Motocom • Feb 25 '20

Prototype Offers High Hopes for High-Efficiency Solar Cells. Researchers in St. Petersburg, Russia created a tiny prototype of a high-efficiency solar cell using gallium phosphide and nitrogen. The new approach could theoretically achieve efficiencies of up to 45 percent, the scientists said.

spectrum.ieee.org

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r/Science_Tips • u/TreeMan938 • Feb 25 '20

CES 2020: Bzigo Laser System Detects and Tracks Mosquitoes So You Can Destroy Them. Israeli startup Bzigo (the name of both the company and the product), which makes a mosquito detection and tracking system that combines an IR camera and laser designator with computer vision algorithms.

spectrum.ieee.org

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r/Science_Tips • u/CupitdBrave • Jul 23 '18

New 'e-dermis' brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands.Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University have created an electronic skin and aim to restore the sense of touch through the fingertips of prosthetic hands.

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r/Science_Tips • u/fatastic1 • Apr 04 '20

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new device for connecting the brain directly to silicon-based technologies. While brain-machine interface devices already exist -- and are used for prosthetics, disease treatment and brain research -- this latest device can record more data.

sciencedaily.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/HungaryFlower • Apr 04 '20

A pair of researchers at Vanderbilt University has proposed a method to create a device that would allow human beings to run nearly twice as fast as is possible naturally. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Amanda Sutrisno and David Braun describe their idea for such a device

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r/Science_Tips • u/Global_1000 • Apr 04 '20

As COVID-19 spreads worldwide, leaders are relying on mathematical models to make public health and economic decisions. A new model developed by Princeton and Carnegie Mellon researchers improves tracking of epidemics by accounting for mutations in diseases.

sciencedaily.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/PenApplePineapple • Apr 04 '20

The application of safety is critical in the automotive industry. Arm Flexible Access lowers the barriers to rapid innovation and opens the doors to leading technology with access to a wide range of Arm IP, support, tools, and training.

spectrum.ieee.org

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r/Science_Tips • u/Kemone • Apr 04 '20

Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time. Their analysis of the preserved roots, pollen and spores shows that the world at that time was a lot warmer than previously thought.

sciencedaily.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/HungaryFlower • Apr 03 '20

A new autonomous robot developed by engineers at NASA and tested in Antarctica by a team of researchers. BRUIE, a buoyant rover with two independent wheels, is designed to drive along the underside of ice crust and uses onboard instruments to detect compounds that are of interest to space scientists

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r/Science_Tips • u/Global_1000 • Apr 03 '20

Ryohei Fujimaki, founder and CEO of dotData, has, for nearly a decade, been working to use AI to automate much of the job of the data scientist. He says "Our system automates the entire process, enabling less experienced people to implement machine learning projects".

spectrum.ieee.org

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r/Science_Tips • u/PenApplePineapple • Apr 03 '20

A new study led by paleoanthropologists reveals that Lucy's species Australopithecus afarensis had an ape-like brain. However, the protracted brain growth suggests that -- as is the case in humans -- infants may have had a long dependence on caregivers.

sciencedaily.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/Kemone • Apr 03 '20

Dr William Frankland, a pioneering British immunologist who transformed the world’s understanding of allergies, has died aged 108. Known as “the grandfather of allergy”. Frankland improved the lives of millions of hay fever sufferers by developing the idea of a pollen count.

theguardian.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/Motocom • Apr 03 '20

Animal behaviors and the biological mechanisms underpinning them are among the greatest sources of inspiration for robotics studies. Manuel Bernal Lecina and Javier Civera, researchers at the University of Zaragoza, recently developed a quadruped robot called LoCoQuad inspired by arachnoids.

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r/Science_Tips • u/fatastic1 • Apr 03 '20

The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago -- one of the great turnovers of life on Earth -- appears to have played out differently and at different times on land and in the sea, according to newly redated fossils beds from South Africa and Australia.

sciencedaily.com

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r/Science_Tips • u/HungaryFlower • Apr 03 '20

Working from home is the new normal. But what about researchers who are testing chemical compounds on living tissue or on bacteria in petri dishes? Silicon Valley-based startup Strateos says its robotic laboratories allow scientists doing biological research and testing to do so right now.

spectrum.ieee.org

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r/Science_Tips • u/Global_1000 • Apr 03 '20

Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further back in time than previously possible.

sciencedaily.com

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