Image: Road, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
I was lucky enough to get to Troon in Scotland this week, and during a spell of nice weather, I shot a drone video from the Barassie beach with the Isle of Arran in the background. The shifting colours in the video surprised me! Check out the video here.
Image: MIT
Researchers at MIT have developed a rapid test that can detect the amount of COVID immunity present in a drop of blood.
Image: YouTube, Princeton
Researchers at Princeton have successfully simulated the freezing of water at the quantum level using neural networks to model quantum-mechanical interatomic forces.
Image: Yannik Severin, Julien Mena, Berend Snijder / ETH Zürich
Researchers at ETH Zurich have created the first map of connection within the human immune system. The map shows how immune cells across the body link up and communicate to deal with threats.
Image: S.D. Dahlhauser et al., 2022
Scientists at the University of Texas stored an encrypted version of The Wizard of Oz in 256 bits of data encoded within polymers of ink. The ink was used to write a letter, which can later be decoded using depolymerization and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry equipment.
Image: Alex Walker/Moment/Getty Images
Scientists from Michigan State University have discovered that locusts can not only smell cancer cells, but changes in their brain activity that can be measured also change depending on the type of cancer cell that they smell. Harnessing this diagnostic capability could allow large scale early stage cancer detection.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.
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