• Highest-resolution in-vivo images of mouse brain achieved

  Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany led by Stefan Hell have imaged living neurons at less than 70 nanometers for the first time. The scientists used optogenetics to insert an extra gene that generates a yellow glow in mice brains, then used the Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy technique developed [...]

• New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star

  An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star — the new best candidate to support liquid water and, perhaps, life as we know it, the scientists say. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth, the planet orbits [...]

• iRobot goes to the hospital

  iRobot Corp. has announced plans to invest $6 million in InTouch Health, a telemedicine company operating in 80 hospitals around the world, possibly building on iRobot’s Ava, a tablet-compatible telepresence robot.

• NASA probe captures 1st video of moon’s far side

  A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side, a view people on Earth never see. The new video was captured by one of NASA’s twin Grail probes using a novel camera called MoonKAM, which will eventually be used by students on Earth to snap photos of [...]

• Self-guided bullet could hit laser-marked targets from a mile away

  Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a prototype of a four-inch-long, small-caliber bullet capable of steering itself towards a laser-marked target located approximately 2,000 meters (1.2 miles) away. Aided by little fins, the on-board guidance and control electronics use the information passed on by an optical sensor located in the nose to calculate the flight [...]

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