A US military lab has developed a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still be ‘fresh’ and edible. The pizza doesn’t require refrigeration or freezing and is being considered a kind of ‘holy grail’ among food technologists.
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Using coiled fishing line and sewing thread, researchers made super-strong artificial muscles that can lift 100 times more weight and generate 100 times higher mechanical power than human muscles. The artificial muscles will be used to build the limbs of humanoid robots and to make intelligent clothing fibres that contract or expand to keep the wearer warm or cool.
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India has pledged to build the world’s most powerful solar plant. With a nominal capacity of 4,000 megawatts, this project will be more than 10 times larger than any other solar project built so far, and will spread over 77 square kilometres of land.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1dwqb4x via Scientific American
A new prosthetic hand that connects to the nervous system gives users a sense of touch, allowing them to feel the texture and shape of different objects. Although more tests need to be conducted to refine the sensory abilities of the prosthetic hand, researchers believe that in five years it could be mass produced. Dennis Aabo Sorensen, who lost his hand in an accident 9 years ago used the bionic hand and reported that he was able to feel textures.
Read more: http://wrd.cm/1ax7tiv via Wired
This may help explain how some populations of bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics.
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