In the 1964 satirical black comedy film Dr. Strangelove there is the iconic scene when the rogue general Jack D Ripper, played by Sterling Hayden, tells Peter Sellers’ character, “Ever hear of the fluoridation of water? Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we ever had to face?”
Weight-loss pharmaceuticals such as Ozempic and Wegovy are among drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists. They bump up insulin production to reduce blood sugar and slow digestion so you feel fuller longer.
Mercedes-Benz is well along in developing a solar “paint” that can cover a car’s body in an energy-generating film that makes energy from sunlight.
Quantum computers, which take advantage of subatomic particles’ strange behavior, have taken a giant step forward in Google’s new “Willow” quantum computer chip.
California’s San Joaquin Valley has been called “America’s salad bowl” for the significant amount of the country’s fruits and vegetables that are grown there.
CycloTech, an Austrian start-up working in small-scale aviation, is building an all-electric, autonomous flying taxi.
Tweaking a newly discovered gene in the black cottonwood tree caused the trees to grow 37 percent taller in the wild and 200 percent taller in a greenhouse.
It looks like a windowless military personnel carrier, or maybe a Humvee on steroids, but it’s actually a self-propelled, all-electric, giant battery on wheels called the Mobile Power Station (MPS), created by Dannar LLC in Indiana.
Peeling the valuable electronic components and useful metals from discarded circuit boards is labor-intensive and time-consuming.
Scientists surveying previously overlooked crannies of the human genome have found thousands of new genes that might hold the key to everything from understanding neurodegenerative conditions to curing cancer.