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To keep a growing world population filled with nutrients, startups like Beyond Eggs are finding new ways of making protein that don’t involve the resource intensity of raising animals. Here comes the Protein Economy. Big picture trends in agriculture and population tend to make people pessimistic. And with good reason. With the environmental impact of

Implant improves vision for patients suffering from the leading cause of blindness in older Americans. Physicians at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center have become the first in Virginia to successfully implant a telescope in a patient’s eye to treat macular degeneration. The telescope implant is designed to correct end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the

As expected, Facebook has announced Skype-powered video calling for its users, who now number more than 750 million according to the company. The new feature was unveiled by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Skype CEO Tony Bates at a news conference at Facebook HQ on Wednesday where Facebook engineer Philip Su provided a walkthrough of

Blending ethanol brewed from corn into gasoline stocks is not bringing down fuel prices, an M.I.T. study finds The renewable ethanol fuel blended into the United States’ gasoline supply does not lower prices at the pump as advocates have claimed, according to a study released this week by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The paper

Traditional surveillance cameras can be of great assistance to law enforcement officers for a range of scenarios — canvassing a crowd for criminal activity, searching for who left a suitcase beneath a bench, or trying to pick out a suspect who has fled a crime scene and blended into a teeming throng in the subway.

A Russian graduate has entered a laser food cutting design that relies on electromagnets into the annual James Dyson Award. The award, which has seen more than 500 candidates from 18 countries enter in 2012, provides young designers and engineers with a £10,000 incentive to come up with a problem-solving invention. The Russian entry — from

Image via Wikipedia By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Kishore Mahbubani, the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, is over for tea and I am telling him about what I consider to be the most exciting, moon-shot-quality, high-aspiration initiative proposed by President Obama that no one has heard

Gold nanoparticles carried Cas9 enzyme into brain, editing receptor and lessening burying behavior Scientists have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to lessen some autism symptoms in mice with a form of fragile X syndrome, the most common known single-gene cause of autism spectrum disorder. Employing gold nanoparticles to deliver the DNA-cutting Cas9 enzyme into the brain

A group of scientists from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg has put forward a new approach to effective manipulation of light at the nanoscale based on hybrid metal-dielectric nanoantennas. The new technology promises to bring about a new platform for ultradense optical data recording and pave the way to high throughput fabrication of a wide