As part of its bid to become a global hub for hydrogen energy technology, Mongolia—a landlocked country between Russia and northeastern China—is building what is planned as the world’s first large-scale hydrogen energy system.
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SWEET! STEVIA CONCOCTION KILLS CANCER CELLS
Stevia—the zero-calorie sugar substitute that doesn’t raise blood sugar and has shown no side effects—can do more than sweeten your morning joe.
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A KEY BREAKTHROUGH IN QUANTUM COMPUTING
Today’s computers are silicon machines. Tomorrow’s will be quantum. That particular tomorrow will come sooner, thanks to a breakthrough by engineers at England’s University of Oxford.
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YOUR BRAIN IN A DISH
At Johns Hopkins University, researchers have grown a rudimentary human brain in a laboratory.
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MILLIPEDES MAKE A PAINKILLER FOR HUMANS
Millipedes, those worm-like crawlies with antennae and hundreds of hair-like legs, keep ants away by secreting a substance that makes ants disoriented.
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REGENERATING TISSUE WITH YOGURT
Turns out yogurt can do more than improve your digestion. Scientists at Columbia University’s engineering school wanted to make a hydrogel that included extracellular vesicles.
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COMBINING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND QUANTUM COMPUTING
In one of the first published examples of uniting artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, engineers at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization have improved the process of modeling the electrical resistance inside a computer chip—an essential step in designing new and more sophisticated semiconductors.
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DARPA ADVANCES WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION
The idea of beaming electric power through the air has been a dream since the days of Nikola Tesla more than a century ago. Now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is taking steps toward making it happen through its Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program.
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MAGIC MUSHROOMS MAY HOLD A MAGIC ANTI-AGING COMPOUND
Psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in a family of mushrooms, is the new headliner in mental health treatment.
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‘BYE, SEMAGLUTIDE, HELLO KILLER FAT SHOT
Wegovy and Ozempic are wildly popular, and hugely expensive, brand names for semaglutide, a compound that melts body weight—but at too high a cost to your body.