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The images were taken by the 570-megapixel behemoth from its location within the Chilean Andes on September 12 while undergoing a series of tests. Scientists hope it may soon help answer one of the biggest mysteries in physics: why the expansion of the universe is speeding up.  <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/dark-energy-camera-first-images/24193/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div>   <div class="summary_item " data-article="24155"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-biological-tissues/24155/">New technique paves the way for instant 3D-printed biological tissues</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/author/doug-hendrie/">Doug Hendrie</a></div> <div class="date">September 17, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-biological-tissues/24155/#comments">1 Comment</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback" href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-biological-tissues/24155/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/printingbloodvessels.jpg" title="Printing blood vessels: the future? (Photo: Biomedical Nanotechnology Laboratory, Chen Res..." alt="Printing blood vessels: the future? (Photo: Biomedical Nanotechnology Laboratory, Chen Res..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/3d+printer/" target="_blank">3D printing</a> technologies have come a long way since their earliest incarnations as rapid product prototype makers. It's now shaping up as the next disruptive technology and in medical science, 3D printing has huge potential. The latest advance comes from University of California, San Diego Nanoengineering Professor Shaochen Chen, whose group has demonstrated the ability to print three-dimensional blood vessels in seconds. If the technique proves scalable, it could revolutionize regenerative medicine.  <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-biological-tissues/24155/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="24118"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/mars-curiosity-phobos-inspection/24118/">Curiosity finishes self-inspection, photographs Phobos</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">September 16, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/mars-curiosity-phobos-inspection/24118/#comments">1 Comment</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/mars-curiosity-phobos-inspection/24118/pictures">21 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback" href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/mars-curiosity-phobos-inspection/24118/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/curiosity-self-inspection.jpg" title="Curiosity's self-portrait (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems)" alt="Curiosity's self-portrait (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems)"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> NASA’s Mars rover <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/curiosity/" target="_blank">Curiosity</a> has limbered up its <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/curiosity-starts-arm-work/24036/" target="_blank">robotic arm</a>, taken a good look at itself and has been given a clean bill of health. It’s now on the move as it starts its two-year mission of discovery on the Red Planet. On Thursday, it traveled 105 feet (32 m) as it seeks out its first rock for serious investigation. Meanwhile, the nuclear-powered explorer sent back images of Mars’s moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun.  <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/mars-curiosity-phobos-inspection/24118/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="24147"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/sketch-identifying-program/24147/">Computer program is able to match rough sketches to real objects</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/author/ben-coxworth/">Ben Coxworth</a></div> <div class="date">September 14, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/sketch-identifying-program/24147/#comments">1 Comment</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/sketch-identifying-program/24147/pictures">3 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback" href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/sketch-identifying-program/24147/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/sketches.jpg" title="The sketch-identifying program at work" alt="The sketch-identifying program at work"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Currently, using Google’s “Search by Image” function, it’s possible to search the internet for information on something <em>if</em> you already have an image of that thing. Also, researchers at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/carnegie-mellon-computer-image-matching/20757/" target="_blank">Carnegie Mellon University</a> are developing a system that allows computers to match up users’ drawings of objects with photographs of those same items – the drawings have to be reasonably good, though. Now, however, a team from Rhode Island’s Brown University and the Technical University of Berlin have created software that analyzes users’ crude, cartoony sketches, and figures out what it is that they’re trying to draw.  <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/sketch-identifying-program/24147/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="24125"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-system-injections/24125/">Laser-based system promises to take the "ouch" out of injections</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/author/adam-williams/">Adam Williams</a></div> <div class="date">September 14, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-system-injections/24125/pictures">3 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback" href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-system-injections/24125/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/laser_injections_system.jpg" title="A beam entrance view of the laser injector (Photo: Jack Yoh/Seoul National University) " alt="A beam entrance view of the laser injector (Photo: Jack Yoh/Seoul National University) "/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Nobody likes getting their shots, but whether childhood immunization, annual flu vaccination, or whatever else, we're required to undergo the uncomfortable sensation of needle piercing skin multiple times throughout our lives. However, a new laser-based system promises to take the “ouch” out of injections by delivering shots as painlessly as being struck by a puff of air.  <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/laser-system-injections/24125/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="24132"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/jupiter-impact-2012/24132/">Impact: Amateurs observe Jupiter taking another for the team</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/author/brian-dodson/">Brian Dodson</a></div> <div class="date">September 14, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/jupiter-impact-2012/24132/#comments">4 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/jupiter-impact-2012/24132/pictures">7 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback" href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/jupiter-impact-2012/24132/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/jupiter-takes-impact-team-15.png" title="Photo of Jupiter taken September 10, 2012 by George Hall of a fireball caused by the impac..." alt="Photo of Jupiter taken September 10, 2012 by George Hall of a fireball caused by the impac..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Jupiter is a major player in protecting the Earth from impact events, and has been for billions of years. Between comets and asteroids impacting on Jupiter and being flung into the Sun or out of the Solar System entirely, Jupiter's enormous gravitational field has removed the greater proportion of debris left-over from the formation of the Solar System. Jupiter has again been caught in the act of attracting and eating dangerous space rocks—this time in simultaneous observations by two amateur astronomers.  <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/jupiter-impact-2012/24132/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="24136"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/boiling-water-without-bubbles/24136/">Superhydrophobic coating allows water to boil without bubbles</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/author/nick-gilbert/">Nick Gilbert</a></div> <div class="date">September 14, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/boiling-water-without-bubbles/24136/#comments">7 Comments</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback" href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/boiling-water-without-bubbles/24136/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/bubble-free-leidenfrost-water.jpg" title="Violent bubbling in boiling water may just be a thing of the past (Image: Northwestern Uni..." alt="Violent bubbling in boiling water may just be a thing of the past (Image: Northwestern Uni..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> You know that thing that water does when it boils? The thing with the bubbles? Turns out, it doesn't really need to do that at all, with scientists finding a way to make boiling water a completely bubble-free zone. Researchers from Northwestern University, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and Melbourne University in Australia teamed up to prevent water from bubbling when it boils by using tiny spheres coated with a hydrophobic material.  <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/boiling-water-without-bubbles/24136/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="24063"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-egyptian-ceramic-printing/24063/">Ancient Egyptian faience may be key to printing 3D ceramics</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">September 12, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-egyptian-ceramic-printing/24063/#comments">5 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-egyptian-ceramic-printing/24063/pictures">2 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback" href="/web/20120920042133/http://www.gizmag.com/3d-egyptian-ceramic-printing/24063/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120920042133im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/3d-egyptian-ceramic-printing.jpg" title="'William,' a blue faience hippopotamus of the 12th Dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of ..." alt="'William,' a blue faience hippopotamus of the 12th Dynasty, in the Metropolitan Museum of ..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> We like to think of technology as always being forward looking. It’s supposed to be about nanoparticles and the Cloud, not steam engines and the telephone exchange. But every now and again the past reaches out, taps the 21st century on the shoulder and says, “Have a look at this.” That’s what happened to Professor Stephen Hoskins, Director of the University of West England, Bristol's Centre for Fine Print Research. 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