Tag: SciComm
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Gaming Seals
If I told you scientists taught seals to play video games, that might be enough to satisfy you. I mean, who doesn’t want video-game-playing Seals? But let me explain why you’d want to do this beyond just entertaining us and the seals… Seals play an ocean simulation video game in an experiment to understand how…
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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 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:
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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…
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3D print your skin
The world’s first clinical trial is underway using 3-D printed skin at the Concord Hospital in Sidney Australia! This skin grafting technique was first developed in 2023, it uses the patient’s own skin stem cells to create a liquid that it is then able to spray onto a wound. How did they do it? The…
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Tattooing tardigrades!
If tardigrades have no fans I’m dead. Tardigrades are cute chubby looking little invertebrates with eight legs that are about half a milimeter long. They can survive high pressure, freezing, starvation, radiation, and more, which is why they have been sent to space more times than Katy Perry! Last month, researchers from Westlake University in…
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US science updates – May 2025
This is text from a previous episode of the Daily Tech News Show detailing monthly changes affecting federal funding for science in the United States for May 2025. Monthly update – US Science You may be asking yourself: DTNS is a tech show, why do I come on every month and talk about federal science…
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Lions, Tigers, and Bears, OLO!
As covered on the Daily Tech News Show on April 23rd 2025 News source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq0n3em41oScientific article: DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu1052 Published last week in the journal of science advances. A team of scientists used lasers to stimulate the eye in a specific way that enabled five team members to view a color they claim no human has…
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US science updates April 2025
This is text from a previous episode of the Daily Tech News Show detailing monthly changes affecting federal funding for science in the United States for April 10th 2025. Main source: https://www.science.org/content/article/science-trump-latest-news Picking up from last month’s update which went up to March 6th. Here we go! These panels provide expert advice from scientists on…
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Dire woof!
As covered on the Daily Tech News Show on April 9th 2025. For a more detailed conversation, listen here: First source: https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/ These days it’s like Colossal knows I’m about to go on DTNS and makes up a story just for me to debunk! On March 7th, Colossal Biosciences spread the word of their latest…
Nicole Ackermans, CVN lab 