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  • Secrets of Ancient Scroll of En-Gedi are Digitally Unraveled

    University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales and his team have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll — the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively. Through virtual unwrapping, they have revealed it to be the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book — Leviticus — ever found in a Holy Ark.

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  • Water Clouds Detected And Confirmed On Brown Dwarf In A System Far, Far Away

    Astronomers are revealing that they have found strong evidence of water clouds detected on a body outside of the solar system during the same week NASA celebrated the entry of their JUNO spacecraft into Jupiter’s orbit.

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  • Living Machines: These Robots Are Made From Living Tissue

    The newest robots to pave the way for synthetic creatures is able to move remarkably well like a manta ray.

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  • Micromotors are powered by bacteria, controlled by light

    At the University Sapienza in Rome, a team of researchers from the Physics Department and the Institute for Nanotechnology of the CNR, lead by physics professor Roberto Di Leonardo, has shown that genetically modified bacteria, expressing the protein proteorhodhopsin, can be used as tiny propellers in micromachines that are invisible to the human eye and whose speed can be reliably and continuously tuned by shining green light of controlled intensity.

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