Month: June 2025

• June 13, 2025

  US Science News June 2025

  It’s time to check in on what’s been happening with science funding over the past month.  Since  May 14 https://www-science-org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/content/article/trump-s-proposed-budget-details-dramatic-cuts-biomedical-research-and-global-health https://www-science-org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/content/article/dozens-active-and-planned-nasa-spacecraft-killed-trump-budget-request https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/health/nih-letter-bethesda-declaration https://www-science-org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/content/article/senators-press-nih-director-killed-grants-and-proposal-slash-agency-s-funding As covered on the Daily Tech News Show on June 13th 2025. For a more detailed discussion of the topic, listen here:
• June 12, 2025

  Night-vision contact lenses

  You’ve heard of night vision goggles but what if they were contacts? A new paper came out this week in the journal Cell, called “Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision in humans enabled by upconversion contact lenses” by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China. Let me translate that for you. Just to be…
• June 11, 2025

  CRISPR spiders make glowing silk

  Scientists can now edit spider genomes! What are the practical reasons to do this and can it make you into Spider-Man?  A new study from the University of Bayreuth in Germany unveils the first CRISPR-Cas9 gene-edited spider. Refresher: what’s CRISPR? CRISPR-Cas9 won its inventors the 2020 nobel prize in chemistry. It is a gene editing…