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Researchers from MIPT and their colleagues from Research Center Juelich (Germany) and Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia have described a new method for studying microorganisms that can survive in extreme conditions. The scientists identified a fluorescent dye that enabled them to observe the life cycle of bacteria in real time.

Twenty-six experts on the security implications of emerging technologies have jointly authored a report sounding the alarm about the potential malicious use of AI by rogue states, criminals, and terrorists.Forecasting rapid growth in cyber-crime and the misuse of drones during the next decade, the report is a clarion call for governments and corporations worldwide to address the clear and present danger inherent in the myriad applications of AI.

In 1947 three engineers working for Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, achieved something that had a transformative impact on the technology industry, and the entire world. John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley invented the first transistor and so ushered in the silicon age. By David Harold, VP Communications, Imagination Technologies

When you’re designing a commercial or residential space, lighting might be the last thing on your mind. However, it can have a profound effect, on the people living or working there and, for businesses, on the potential customers coming through your door. And the lighting industry is just as ripe for innovation as any other sector. Breakthrough Magazine asked Bruce Weil, Director of Lighting Design Studio, about his light bulb moments.

Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding. It happens because the Sun’s gravitational grip gradually weakens as our star ages and loses mass. Now, a team of NASA and MIT scientists has indirectly measured this mass loss and other solar parameters by looking at changes in Mercury’s orbit.The new values improve upon earlier predictions by reducing the amount of uncertainty.

You don’t have to be a sci-fi wizard to remember Avatar. The 2009 fantasy blockbuster was equally entrancing for trekkies and school teachers alike. In the epic science fiction film, writer and director James Cameron envisioned a new world inhabited by an alien species known as the Na’vi, who lived in perfect harmony with their deity, Ewya, on an exoplanetary moon known as Pandora.

We are always keen to champion startup companies within these pages. The innovation and technology they produce is helping to shape tomorrow’s world while they also drive job creation and the economy. However, they could be facing an uncertain future, as Joe Bush reports.

Researchers investigating ways to deliver high doses of cancer-killing drugs inside tumours have shown they can use a laser and light-activated gold nanoparticles to remotely trigger the release of approved cancer drugs inside cancer cells in laboratory cultures.The study by researchers at Rice University and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

There is no denying it, urban spaces are growing. Recent figures reveal that, within the next 30 years, so-called ‘supercities’ of 50 million people or more could exist in nearly every continent. The concept of running a gigantic metropolitan area could feasibly strike fear into the hearts of town planners, governments and environmentalists.

In London's St. Paul's Cathedral, a whisper can be heard far across the circular whispering gallery as the sound curves around the walls. Now, an optical whispering gallery mode resonator developed by Penn State electrical engineers can spin light around the circumference of a tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip-based sensor for multiple applications.