Month: June 2025
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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 May 28, 2025. Weather researchers performed a 100 hour long youtube livestream from May 28th to June 1st. It was made up of a series of 30 min talks with messages in between to raise awareness…
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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…
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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…
