Using a new gel, which contains properties seldom seen together – high conductivity, flexibility and room temperature self-healing
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Astronomers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and the Space Telescope Science Institute have made the most accurate statistical estimate of the number of faint, small galaxies that existed only 500 million years after the big bang. This was culled from an analysis of the deepest Hubble Space Telescope sky survey, CANDELS (Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey). Previously, studies using Caltech's CIBER (the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment) rocket-borne instrument and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope images confirmed the presence of "intra-halo light" from stars distributed outside of galaxies. The Hubble data found a new component in the infrared background in addition to intra-halo light the collective glow of entire galaxies that formed first in the universe. UCI's Asantha Cooray believes that these early galaxies are very different from the well-defined spiral and disk-shaped galaxies seen in the present-day universe. They were more diffuse and populated by giant stars. This discovery paves the way for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to see these very faint galaxies individually, after its launch in 2018.
Earlier this year, the restaurant chain Chipotle announced to much fanfare that it was halting the use of GMOs in the food it serves. That announcement has since been amplified by advertisements and displays in its restaurants. At least one California resident, however, thinks the chain is not living up to its promises and is suing Chipotle under the state's Consumer Legal Remedies Act and seeking class action status for the suit.
The suit carefully avoids discussing whether eating GMO foods has any consequences for the plaintiff, thus neatly dodging the need to contain any scientific content. But it does contain some questionable logic: some of the chain's meat and dairy products come from animals that were fed GMO food, and therefore allegedly contain GMOs as well.
The suit has been filed in the United States District Court of the Northern District of California on behalf of Colleen Gallagher and the class of Chipotle customer she's a part of. Said customers have allegedly seen the anti-GMO advertising and "been deceived into buying Chipotle’s food, or paying more for Chipotle products than they would have otherwise paid."
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Researchers from the University of Southampton have demonstrated for the first time a new laser cooling method, based
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Research on 3D printing (also called additive manufacturing) has increased the accessibility of the technology to the general public. Today you can even buy your own 3D printer, although at a steep price—the cost of these systems has hindered their wide-scale use. Recently, an interdisciplinary team at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has partly addressed this limitation by building a relatively cheap printer that can handle multiple materials.
From the beginning, the team was interested in a 3D printing platform that relied on commercial, off-the-shelf parts. Over the past three years, they’ve developed an impressive multi-material 3D printing platform that costs around $7,000—over an order of magnitude cheaper than other multi-material systems.
The printer is 1.2m x 0.6m x 1m (w, l, h), and its frame is made of aluminum attached to UV-blocking acrylic sheets. An exhaust duct is connected to the rear of the panel where two electric fans are used to expel gases and particulates.
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An international team of scientists led by the University of Bayreuth and with participation of DESY has created
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