Friday Futures: electronic skin, cancer fighting nanorobots and alien life

Nanorobots and blood cells

Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: electronic skin; cancer fighting nanorobots; life expectancy drops; reading your mind.

Electronic skin developed

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new type of malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable “electronic skin” that has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices. Read more…

Cancer fighting nanorobots

In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots to shrink tumors by cutting off their blood supply. Read more…

Mining crypto currency inhibits search for alien life

Astronomers listening for radio messages from alien civilizations require lots of processing power to crunch the data. Now, those astronomers are finding the GPUs they need in short supply as crypto miners buy them up. Thanks to the cryptocurrency craze, we might miss out on a call from E.T. Astronomers are reporting that they can’t as easily access the graphics processing units (GPUs) needed to run their powerful telescopes and radio arrays, as they’re being bought up by those looking to mine cryptocurrency. Read more…

 Step into your new virtual reality office

Augmented reality workspaces will transform the way you do your job, and you won’t look weird doing it. At all. Read more…

Wearable scanners will be able to read our minds

This year, a San Francisco-based start-up hopes to demonstrate a scanning device that could revolutionise the diagnosis of cancer and heart disease — and, eventually, read our minds. Read more…

Life expectancy in USA drops

US life expectancy is dropping at an alarming rate, and not because Donald Trump is President, although that may be a contributing factor to the causes. Read more…

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