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Earlier today, Michio Kaku spoke at the World Government Summitin Dubai. I was fortunate enough to be in the crowd and, like those around me, I was both astonished and alarmed by what he had to say. The topic at hand? Change. It seems that each day brings with it a revolution in artificial intelligence, space travel, and DNA, which is the building block of life itself....
A research team from Tongji University in China have made a breakthrough in human lung regeneration technology. For the first time, researchers have regenerated patients' damaged lungs using autologous lung stem cell transplantation in a pilot clinical trial. The study can be found in the open access journal Protein & Cell which is published by Springer Nature. For patients suffering from chronic...
Director of ANAS  Institute of Chemistry of Additives  Academician Vagif Farzaliev was on a business trip in Tbilisi, Georgia on February 6-10. During the visit, scientist took part at the celebration of 100th anniversary of the Tbilisi State University after Ivan Javakhashvili. In honor of the participants of the jubilee were received event by Georgian President Georgi Margvelashvili, Prime Minister Georgi Kvirikashvili, Speaker of the...
Those of you searching for a pocket-sized PC Stick capable of running a variety of different operating systems including Microsoft’s latest Windows 10, Linux or Android, the new Q-Stick mini PC might be worth more investigation. Q-Stick is available to back with pledges starting from $129 for the Q-Stick Blaze Plus equipped with 8 GB of RAM, and worldwide shipping is...
A team of researchers with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing Tech University and Northwestern Polytechnical University, all in China, has developed a new type of paper that can be erased and printed on multiple times. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group explains how they made their paper, how well it works and the...
The IV grant competition of young scientists and specialists ("My first grant"), organized by the Science Development Fund under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan jointly with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Azerbaijan, has been completed. One of the most successful projects is the project  titled "Computer synthesis of multifunctional additives and bioactive substances...
Scientists have developed a new type of 3D printing that uses living matter, namely bacteria, to create objects. This could allow for things like degrading pollutants and skin grafts. Called functional living ink (Flink), the product was described in a paper published in Science Advances. The research was led by scientists from ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Flink is made of a hydrogel...
Satoshi Nakamoto is the alias of the shadowy creator of the virtual coins, but there has been a long-running debate about who that person actually is. Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency, meaning neither does it exist in the physical world, nor does it have a central bank such as the Federal Reserve. The value of Bitcoin has soared in recent months,...
One hundred and seventy-one years after the first electrical message was transmitted down a line running alongside the railway between Brussels and Antwerp the final dispatch will be sent and received on 29 December. The fact that this 19th-Century technology is still up and running in the age of Instagram and Snapchat may seem rather odd - especially when you...