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In 2007, South Korean scientists altered a cat’s DNA to make it glow in the dark and then took that DNA and cloned other cats from it — creating a set of fluffy, fluorescent felines. Here’s how they did it: The researchers took skin cells from Turkish Angora female cats and used a virus to insert genetic instructions for making red fluorescent protein. Then they put the gene-altered nuclei into the eggs for cloning, and the cloned embryos were implanted back into the donor cats — making the cats the surrogate mothers for their own clones. (via 12 bizarre examples of genetic engineering: Glow-in-the-dark cats | MNN - Mother Nature Network)

As cars become increasingly self-driven in the decades ahead, Benz believes there will be no need for front seat passengers to keep their eyes on the road - or forward at all. So instead, Merc's new concept allows front seat passengers to swivel their seats around to engage in conversation with rear seat passengers. (If they're not wearing ‘virtual reality’ goggles, that is...) The goggles also serve as eye monitors, as Benz believes passengers of the future will be able to communicate with the vehicle via eye commands. Interestingly, the goggles can also display the view from outside the car to passengers who wear them but it will be a 360-degree view; which explains why passengers don’t simply look out the window.

"With Lightpaper it's more of a platform of light that we don't even know how it's going to be used," explains Smoot. "All we know is that we're trying to unlock the ability to create light." In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs together and printing them out on a conductive layer. That object is then sandwiched between two other layers and sealed. The tiny diodes are about the size of a red blood cell, and randomly dispersed on the material. When current runs through the diodes, they light up. (via Rohinni's Lightpaper Is Incredibly Thin, And Printable ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code community)

Arctic fire.

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“”The technology of metropolitan quantum communication is basically mature, but if we want to achieve worldwide communication, we need the help of satellites,” he said.”

— China to build global quantum communication network in 2030 - Xinhua | English.news.cn

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XOR A SERIES OF SHIPS - “

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You see, for 355 months now (up through September), "every month on this planet has been warmer than the 20th century average," according to Jessica Blunden, a scientist at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The Post's own Philip Bump, then writing at Grist, pointed out numbers like these back in November 2012, when the streak was only 332 consecutive months--but since then, every month has just added to the total. And now, we're just shy of 30 years of unbroken warmer-than-average months. The last month that actually was not warmer than the 20th century average, according to Blunden, was February of 1985. (It was merely average, she says.) If you took out a 30-year mortgage that February, and never refinanced or sold--but just kept paying the unchanged payment--you'd have just a few months to go now. And during that entire period of the mortgage, the globe never saw a cooler-than-average month.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/21/temperatures-have-been-above-average-for-355-straight-months/

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