If Forbes 30 under 30 list wasn’t interesting enough, they made it even more interesting by listing a 17 year old as one of the successes. A 17-year-old inventor from Texas, Javier Fernández-Han, the son of immigrants from China and Mexico, was named one of “Forbes’ 30 under 30” this year, for his inventive use […]
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NPR: The National Science Foundation screened applicants for this Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program and awarded each research team $50,000. They’ll be mentored by entrepreneurs familiar with bringing a new technology to market, and participate in ongoing webinars and progress meetings throughout the process. Each of the 21 teams has its own project — things like
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When Shree Bose was in second grade, she tried to make blue spinach. At just 17 years of age, she won the first Google Global Science Fair with her research into ovarian cancer, reports The New York Times. For the winning research Ms. Bose looked at a chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, that is commonly taken by
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We mentioned back in October that Dean Kamen was hosting a science TV show on Green Planet. If you don’t have Green Planet on your cable system you can still watch the first show on the internet here.I don’t know if Green Planet plans to stream every show. Photo by Green Planet.
Scientists in Norway at Squarehead have developed a technology called AudioScope that apparently enables you to zoom in on sounds in huge, loud places like sports arenas or lecture halls. AudioScope is based on the same principle as sonar. A dish with an array of microphones can locate and record sound anywhere in a large
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We’ve always known that entrepreneurs are a little different than everyone else. They have traits that make it easier for them to take risks and remain hopeful when times are tough. According to The Wall Street Journal a new study just might prove that entrepreneurship just might be in their DNA. Turns out, part of
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A team from Columbia University Medical Center has pioneered a technique to regrow adult teeth from a person’s own stem cells. An animal-model study has shown that by homing stem cells to a scaffold made of natural materials and integrated in surrounding tissue, there is no need to use harvested stem cell lines, or create
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‘Garage inventors’ is a term used to describe individuals or groups of inventors that create independently. They are not on a salary or salary/incentive basis, paid by their companies to invent; they work alone, on their own or in small groups, generally in someone’s garage or other part of the home. Popular Science recognizes the
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photo credit: A new study out from Germany indicates that bacteria-killing jets of plasma could soon replace the dental drills currently used to remove the cavities in our teeth making visits to the dentist’s office less painful. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solids, liquids and gases. It is formed when gases are
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In 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of CaliforniaÂ’s brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab, reports Technology Review. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost
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