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Tag: Science
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TESLA’S NEW WAY TO MAKE CARS SLASHES MANUFACTURING COSTS
Tesla has invented a car-making technique called “gigacasting” that could cut manufacturing costs in half and help Elon Musk achieve his dream of profitably supplying the world with millions of cheap electric vehicles.
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PIG EMBRYOS GROW HUMAN KIDNEY CELLS
Pigs have long been seen as possible incubators of human organs to use in transplants. Experiments at California’s Altos Labs have moved science closer to that goal.
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CAN WE DRILL FOR HYDROGEN THE SAME WAY WE DRILL FOR OIL?
Hydrogen, a growing factor in the global green-energy transition, is usually distilled industrially from natural gas. Now the U.S. energy department is going to test a controversial theory that we can suck hydrogen out of the ground the way we do oil and gas.
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“LIVING MATERIAL” CLEANS WATER, THEN DISAPPEARS
At the University of California San Diego, researchers have 3D-printed an “engineered living material” that neutralizes organic pollutants in water, then can be dissolved by a common nontoxic compound.
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AN ENZYME THAT MAKES ELECTRICITY FROM AIR
Scientists at Australia’s Monash University have isolated an enzyme in a common soil bacterium that pulls hydrogen from air and uses it to make an electric current.
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NEW TECHNIQUE TURNS CANCER CELLS INTO MUSCLE CELLS
An experiment led by scientists at Cold Springs Harbor National Laboratory has transformed cancer cells into muscle cells.
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WAR AGAINST THE NATURALLY HUMAN CONTINUES: WIRED PUSHES IDEA THAT DESIRING BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN IS “IMMORAL”
“Most people say they want their kids to be their own genetic offspring—but such a desire is in conflict with other evolving values around parenting and family.”
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COMMON BACTERIUM OFFERS PATHWAY TO INFINITELY RECYCLABLE PLASTIC
Imagine a world where plastic is always plentiful without ever having to make any more.
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IS ANTI-CANCER DRUG THE NEW ANTIDOTE TO AGING?
Rapamycin, a drug that slows the growth of cancer tumors, is being touted as a possible way to slow aging.