Researchers from Rice University introduced noncanonical amino acid building blocks into proteins in living cells, pioneering a powerful tool for researching and manipulating the structure and function of proteins. The resulting unnatural organism, a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria, is able to control low levels of oxidative stress. Credit: Xiao …
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Cindy Wang’s entire life is on WeChat. Through the Chinese Everything app, the 24-year-old shops for clothes and sends photos and audio messages to her grandparents in Guangzhou. It’s how she planned appointments with her hairstylist and where she found her bao supplier – a local woman who sells the …
Read More »NASA launches laser beams at the moon – For the first time, they got a signal back
Artist rendering of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dozens of times in the last decades NASA Scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel, about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) from Earth. She announced today, in collaboration with her French …
Read More »Android is now the world’s largest network for earthquake detection
The earthquake warning system on Android, which is primarily only in California. Google Google search results use the earthquake data. Google Back in 2016, Ars reported on an interesting use for the bundle of sensors we carry in our smartphones every day – earthquake detection. The accelerometers in your phone …
Read More »Why Nvidia Stock jumped today
What happened Shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) Wednesday up 5.4% on Wednesday, as excitement builds for the upcoming product unveiling of the technology titan. So what On Tuesday, Nvidia announced on September 1 a ‘GeForce Special Event’, in which CEO Jensen Huang will talk about the ‘latest innovations in the …
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