Desalination plants—systems that purify seawater to make it potable for things that live on land—tend to look like oil refineries, with sprawling acres of plumbing mazes and stands of towering storage tanks.
Category: TRENDS IN HI-TECH SCIENCE – Aug 26 2025
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A BIOLOGICAL “ENGINE” TO SPEED PROTEIN EVOLUTION BY 100,000 TIMES
At Scripps Research, scientists have created a way to evolve and test new proteins 100,000 times faster than before.
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IN A FIRST, SCIENTISTS GENETICALLY TRANSPLANT A BEHAVIOR
Scientists commonly transplant genes to transfer physical traits between species. At Japan’s Nagoya University, scientists have now done the same with a behavior.


