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- Morrison’s is replacing soya-based chicken feed with insects to produce carbon neutral, free range eggs.
- A team in Atlanta has developed a chip that they claim could improve on existing forms of DNA storage by a factor of 100, a major step forward in efforts to store information as molecules of DNA.
- Elon Musk pokes fun at whistleblowers with the sale of a $50 ‘Cyberwhistle’, which sold out within hours of going on sale.
- A microscopic camera developed by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington can capture crisp, full-colour images akin to those taken by normal lenses that are 500,000 times larger.
- Xenobots, the first living robots formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog, can now reproduce in a way that is entirely different from any animal or plant known to science.
- Engineers at the University of Arizona have developed an ultra-thin wireless computer that attaches directly to the surface of bone, providing doctors with measurements related to bone health.
- In what is labelled the ‘DART’ mission, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has been launched, carrying a small probe that could teach NASA how to save Earth from dangerous asteroids.
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