SSN: Are Animals the Next Big Threat?This is SSN: Scientific Science News. We're used to animals being cute, fluffy little things that mean us no harm. Even the dangerous ones are often so cute, that it's almost ok when a lion or tiger or bear tears out your throat and munches on you while you die.
But science is now attempting to ruin this, in a Doctor Eggman style wave of evil critters. First of all, there's news that a team of scientists, lead by Tian Xue and Jin Bao of the University of Science and Technology of China, have injected mice with nanoparticles that allow the mice to see in infrared. 
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These nanoparticles, when injected, anchor tightly to photoreceptor cells and act as tiny infrared light transducers. So when the infrared light hits the retina, the nanoparticles absorb these longer wavelengths and then emit shorter wavelengths within the visible light range. This is then absorbed by the rod or cone, which sends it to the brain as a normal signal, as if it was always visible. The effects last for up to ten weeks, with minimal side effects. Xue claims that “this technology will also work in human eyes, not only for generating super vision but also for therapeutic solutions in human red colour vision deficits." While the human applications are quite amazing, there's been no news as to what this team plan to do with the mice. And what's worse is, MIT have announced that they have made a “cheetah robot” that can do backflips. Not only is this worrying for little toy dog manufacturers, but it's also designed to be near indestructible. This death machine weighs in at just twenty pounds and can run up to 5mph. That's quicker than the average person can walk! And they're looking to make a set of ten of these things to “loan out to other labs”. Lead developer Benjamin Katz says "You could put these parts together, almost like Legos." If it's that easy to put together, a child could do it. And if a child can do it, a mouse can easily be trained to do it. All it's going to take is for MIT and the University of Science and Technology of China to get together and we'll be neck deep in Predator mice riding unstoppable cheetah robots in no time. It's not hard to imagine walking home from work on a cold, dark winter's night and hearing the clicking and squeaking of an escaped pack of cyborg mice riding wall crawling, backflipping, forward rolling killer robot cheetahs. And would it really stop there? What about robot crocodiles with extendable legs? Newts that can spit razor blades? Spiders that can see your fear rays? Wasps with projectile stings and a tiny voice box that allows us to hear them cackle in delight? The animal kingdom is getting scarier and scarier every day. Stay tuned to Trash Mutant's Scientific Science News for more world ending news. Sources: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2195334-mice-given-night-vision-by-injecting-nanoparticles-into-their-eyes/ - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190304134200.htm 
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