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James Tour says that Roswell is bringing to world the $100 genome that can scale rapidly and also deliver Exabyte data storage. Paul Mola is the Founder, and CEO of Roswell Biotechnologies. Roswell could enable DNA storage technology. This would have exabyte capabilties. They have millions to billions of DNA readers on CMOS ships. They can read DNA, proteins, and other biomolecules with the speed and economics required for a complete and useful data storage and retrieval system. DNA can hold ten terabytes of data and can perform trillions of parallel calculations. Roswell is creating molecular electronic sensors on CMOS

Reading and Writing DNA has improved 2 to 10 times faster than Moore’s Law over the last 35 years. There has been over 10 million times improvement. Molecular and cell multiplexing enable atomically precise reactions at 1 trillion reactions per droplet. George Church gave a talk about reading and writing whole genomes. George Church giving a similar talk with overlap in the slides. Germline vs Somatic Gene Therapy 1. Billion-fold lower off-target (due to cell #) 2. Clonality allows checking (additional million-fold) 3. Immune Tolerance 4. 100% Delivery to every cell 5. $0 to subsequent generations Disadvantages: 1. Very long

By day, he’s a Looney Tunes-style rabbit whose bustling career is built around constantly getting bested by his nemesis, a cheeky carrot. By night, he wallows in depression brought on by the dark monotony of his constant defeats—until a strangely familiar vegetable pops up to taunt him in real life, too. Read more...

As far as we can tell, the 2010s were nothing close to what most of us expected. Instead of flying cars , we got half-baked semi-autonomous vehicles . Instead of social media birthing kumbaya, it fueled genocide and helped erode the foundations of democracy and reality itself . Rather than tackle the impending doom of… Read more...

Movie trailers aren’t just an advertisement, they’re an artform in and of themselves—condensing a movie down into its finest moments . Sometimes, as we saw with films like Suicide Squad and  Hellboy , a trailer can even outshine the movie it’s promoting. Now, a new video montage is celebrating this decade’s best movie… Read more...

For multiple seasons, Steven Universe hid the darkest and most devastating of its truths in plain sight. Save for Pearl , none of the Crystal Gems knew the reality of who Pink Diamond was as a person and just how profoundly her actions would hurt them all. Even now that everything’s been brought to light, Pink is still… Read more...

Gadgets have to work a lot harder to suck in 2019 than they have in years past. They have to bankrupt companies, reveal our data, or be so overpriced they even make Apple look cheap. The gadgets below did all that, but some went even further. Some were pointless Skymall dreck, and some nearly ruined much nicer and… Read more...

Amid all the doom and gloom around the world, some pretty impressive breakthroughs were achieved in 2019, as we hope you'll agree!

Another year has come and gone and with it so, so, so many nerd blogs. Here are the ones you, dear io9 readers, clicked on the most. A big thank you and a Happy New Year to all of you. Read more...

In the last week and a half, two Star Wars sagas have come to a close. First The Rise of Skywalker wrapped up the sequel trilogy, followed this past Friday by season one finale of the first live-action Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian . Only one of these stories managed to unite and delight the bulk of the… Read more...

Lucasfilm looks to cast a familiar face in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. James Gunn shares how The Suicide Squad has been his “most fun” filmmaking experience yet. Plus, a new Star Trek: Picard TV spot highlights Deanna Troi, and Harley Quinn’s Birds of Prey wish us a Fantabulous New Year. To me, my darling spoilers! Read more...

There were a lot of interesting video games that came out in 2019, with deep and complex stories that are begging for the big screen . Of course, seems like even the popularity of shows like The Witcher might not be enough to break the video game movie curse...but could one of 2019's games finally succeed? Read more...

Science fiction would not be what it is today without the influence of Syd Mead. Mead, a futurist and industrial designer whose work on films such as B lade Runner , Tron, and Aliens , died early this morning at the age of 86. Curbed confirmed the sad news. Read more...

Much like its protagonist, Nathan Drake, the Uncharted movie keeps falling off a cliff. Read more...

The North Atlantic Current transports warm water from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe – providing much of north-western Europe with a relatively mild climate. Scientists predict a small, but not insignificant (15%) chance of a temporary halt to the current in the next 100 years.

Netflix’s “best of” content rankings reek of bullshit. And based on Netflix’s own metrics for popularity, they are. Read more...

“Let the past die, kill it if you have to.” That was the takeaway from The Last Jedi , and a message that was largely lost in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker , which felt preoccupied with its own legacy. This was perhaps most notable in the reveal about Rey , one that seemed to conflict with director Rian Johnson’s… Read more...

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George Church indicates Rejuvenate Bio is working toward combination gene therapy against 300+ human genes that effect aging. There is also progress in super-resolution imaging of chromosomes and hyper-detailed tissue analysis. They will be able to analyze the DNA in the chromosome without breaking it up and knowing the exact position of the DNA. Microscopic imaging beyond the diffraction limit to 12 nanometers. The exponential biotechnology is scaling to the tissue and organ scale. It will then reach the full organism level.

Massive multiple edits of cells will provide us with disease, radiation and age immunities. Researchers have already used “nick-less” multiplex gene editing to achieve a record of 27,000 edits in each cell.

The world of fantasy has been one of the few genres to regularly include disabled characters, though this inclusion has always come with the concept of disfigurement and grotesquerie. One of the most famous disabled fantasy characters, George R.R. Martin’s Tyrion Lannister, is described in the first volume of the A … Read more...

Researchers working in the Outer Hebrides island chain off the west coast of Scotland have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown rock monument located within a stone’s throw of the iconic Calanais Standing Stones . Read more...

Roswell has developed the first Molecular Electronics chip. Roswell uses advances in semiconductor technology, nano-fabrication and bio-sensors to create standard CMOS chips that directly integrate sensor molecules into the CMOS integrated circuits. Roswell is delivering the $100, 1-hour Genome for precision medicine. Simple, fast, low cost and with clinical-grade accuracy including phasing, assembly and direct reading of epigenetic data. In 2019, Roswell Biotechnologies, Inc., the pioneer in the development of a molecular electronics platform for DNA Sequencing, closed a $32 million round of Series A financing backed by multiple investors. Going “on-chip” to deploy bio-sensors provides unprecedented economics, precision, portability,

George Church describes the leading edge of biotechnology. He described antiaging and gene reading and writing capabilities. George Church Described Other Leading Edge Biotechnology They are closer to making organoids in days and they are vascularized. Having veins will enable larger organs. They have the worlds first complete human transcription library. They can use the organoids to investigate late onset diseases in 2 to 4 weeks. They are advancing universal CAR-T cells for anti cancer treatment from any donor. They are able to multiplex edit on the repeating gene sequences. The repeating gene sequences are key to many aspects of

The Owl House is the latest experimental kids animated series coming to the Disney Channel, with creator Dana Terrace taking inspiration from her previous show, Gravity Falls — only, in this case, replacing Americana horror with good old-fashioned medieval mysticism and magic. But is it something that will also resonate… Read more...

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Star Wars has dominated much of the pop culture landscape in the past several years, but 2019 was ridiculous. With one saga of films ending, a whole new era of TV starting, the hype leading to both, and then all matter of other media, there’s a chance we’ll never have as much Star Wars as 2019 provided. Then there was… Read more...

The injustice of our current contraceptive regime needs no elaboration. Enough to say that it’s bizarre, at this late date, that male birth control still does not exist. Every couple of years some scientist says they’re on the brink, and the same stale monologue jokes are hauled out of storage; afterwards they are… Read more...

Geralt of Rivia has his own way of doing things. Whether it’s killing monsters , inspiring ballads , or accidentally attending orgies. Yes, even his accent, which (when not just grunts) exists somewhere between gruff assistant cricket coach and cigarette-smoking great-aunt. In an interview with Polygon , Cavill shared… Read more...

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Venom 2 casting breakdown teases a possible Spidey cameo. Fiege promises more fear in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness .  Doctor Who gets a cool guest star for its upcoming season. Plus, an interesting flag has been spotted on the set of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier , and a new clip from Harley Quinn … Read more...

The cumulative number of exoplanets that have been discovered has been following power law scaling for the past 25 years and if this continued to 2050 then we would find about 100 million exoplanets. 20,000 exoplanets should be found from the past primary Kepler mission and the completed K2 mission and from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and from the planned 2026 PLATO mission. The Gaia mission should find between 15,000 and 90,000 depending on the final mission duration and the actual occurrence rates of massive planets in wide orbits. The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope is expected launch in 2025

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Wait, where’s Rose? As anyone keeping up with the state of Star Wars discourse has undoubtedly heard, Rose Tico, the Resistance engineer introduced in The Last Jedi and played by Kelly Marie Tran , has a very small amount of screen time in The Rise of Skywalker . Like, compared to her role in The Last Jedi , where she’s… Read more...

There were a lot of great Easter eggs discovered this year. Some found in new games others found in old games. Youtuber Oddheader has cataloged some of the best Easter egg discoveries this year and has released a new video showing off some of the weirdest and coolest secrets Easter egg hunters have found in 2019. Read more...

Every time I think about Birds Of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn , I think about the fashion. Its looks are just killer, with Harley herself taking the bedazzled cake as a decked-out Margot Robbie wearing some of the snazziest duds ever seen in a superhero film. Read more...

The diagram here shows different measurements of time – from a yoctosecond (extremely short), to a yottasecond (extremely long), with a midpoint of one second.

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One truism of the world is that more things should look like Akira , Katsuhiro Otomo’s legendary manga and film. The stunningly complex cityscapes, the flashes of light and energy, the sharp colors on film. It’s a dazzling work of cyberpunk visual design. And the game that didn’t happen looks almost just as good. Read more...

Twitch Streamer and former professional League Of Legends player Maria “Remilia” Creveling died on Friday at the age of 24, according to a tweet from her close friend and esports journalist Richard Lewis. Read more...

Have you hugged the Star Wars nerd in your life lately? Because they’re probably far, far more stressed out than is reasonable. Such is the nature of fandom, that it can end up with a lot of unnecessary frustration when something you love ends up differently than you imagined, or otherwise it doesn’t but other people… Read more...

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The Carnival of Space 643 is up at the Urban Astronomer. Universe Today -NASA Maps Out the Water On Mars. Some Will Be So Easy to Get, You Could Dig it Out With a Shovel. This rainbow-colored map shows underground water ice on Mars. Cool colors represent less than one foot (30 centimeters) below the surface; warm colors are over two feet (60 centimeters) deep. Sprawling black zones on the map represent areas where a landing spacecraft would sink into fine dust. The outlined box represents the ideal region to send astronauts for them to be able to dig up

It’s 2019, almost 2020, and I haven’t gotten tired of bad lip readings. I’m sorry. (I’m not sorry.) Read more...

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More than 260 billion people Wiki’d something or other in 2019, and the overwhelming majority of them apparently shared a similar question: What the hell did I just watch? Read more...

Scientists have demonstrated X-ray Laser-Enhanced Attosecond Pulse generation (XLEAP), a new method for observing the movements of electrons on timescales measured in attoseconds.

Fans know the joys of shipping, of imagining two character together. The thrill. The romance. The fanfiction. But fans also know the heartbreak of seeing their ship sunk—that moment of canon confirmation that, no, that ship isn’t happening. Time to whip out the fix fics. Read more...

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Silicon is a compelling platform for classical optical telecommunications as well as quantum communications, both through optical fibers. In general, the silicon-based integrated quantum transceivers could provide possible low-cost and high-performance secure communication networks. A reliable transfer of single photon qubits from one silicon device to another has already been shown, and the distribution of entangled states has been verified through the violation of Bell inequalities. Here, researchers first distribute the full set of entangled Bell states between two devices, and then demonstrate key missing capabilities so far, i.e., the chip-to-chip teleportation. Schematic of the chip-to-chip entanglement distribution and teleportation

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have patented a novel design for rapidly spinning the gas in combustion engines to boost efficiency by 5-10%. The ability to absorb energy while being heated of an ideal spinning gas is greater than that of a stationary one. A gas rotating at roughly the speed of sound, when used in a thermodynamic cycle, could allow engines to operate at lower temperature more efficiently than conventional internal combustion engines. The invention uses an eight-cycle engine, rather than a four-cycle engine, in order to spin the gas at the right points in the cycle

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially raised the legal smoking age from 18 t0 21. The measure marks a culmination of a monthslong, bi-partisan campaign aimed at curbing the use of tobacco products— particularly electronic cigarettes—among youth amid rising concerns about the health effects of vaping. Read more...

The Disney-Fox merger changed the fate of a number of film franchises, not to mention the entire entertainment industry. One of the most notable affected, for fans, was the Deadpool series, which has proven itself markedly successful offering a superheroic vibe not really seen in the MCU or its imitators. Since the… Read more...

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Why do people hate chopping so much? Or, I should say, why do some people hate it so much? It’s one of those household tasks like laundry or dishes that some find soothing while others find dull and even taxing. The extent of people’s loathing for chopping became evident to me a few years ago when multiple people told… Read more...

Volkswagen will achieve its goal of 1 million electric cars per year two years earlier than planned – turning out a million battery-powered cars by 2023, instead of 2025. The company has also presented a future concept for autonomous charging via mobile robots.

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A new Star Wars movie is out, and for better or worse, that always means there’s also a host of new tie-in material released which can explain or clarify some questions left lingering after the credits rolled. The Rise of Skywalker is no exception, and its own “Visual Dictionary” guidebook is jam-packed with little… Read more...

While 2019 was filled with all sorts of content— television , movies, comic books , video games—that kept us busy, there were a lot of major franchises meant to wrap up some pretty epic stories this year. Did they all succeed in telling emotional tales that resonated with the fans who’ve been along with them for the long… Read more...

Good sir, I know myself a Baby Yoda. And this? This is no Baby Yoda. Read more...

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