Newly emerging DNA sequencing techniques are creating customized medicines, diagnosing disease risks, and tracking infectious diseases.
Tag: Science
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BALD NO MORE: BODY’S OWN SUGAR SPARKS NEW HAIR GROWTH
With baldness visiting a third or more of men at some point in their lives, Big Pharma has been laboring to find lucrative treatments.
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NEW BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE IS THE SIZE OF A PINHEAD
Sensors that read brain signals typically are the size of coins and are attached to bathing cap-size headwear. In some cases, the sensors are surgically buried in the brain.
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“MICRO-CLEANER” PELLETS PULL MICROPLASTIC FROM WATER BODIES
Microplastics—those bits of plastic less than 5 millimeters, or a fifth of an inch, in diameter are littering the floors of our seas, the peaks of our mountains, and everything in between, including our internal organs.
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TURNING REFINERY SLUDGE INTO CARBON FIBERS
Some components of crude oil have no value and, after the bulk of it is refined, wind up as sludge to be dumped or burned.
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PRODUCTION BEGINS ON FIRST LIGHT-POWERED NEURAL COMPUTER CHIP
Production has begun on company Q.ANT’s light-powered neural processing unit. The company plans to deliver 1,000 in the next 12 months.
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A TOUGH NEW KIND OF PLASTIC THAT DISSOLVES IN SALT WATER
Plastics are useful to hold all kinds of things when you want them to but not so useful afterward. The strong bonds that make them unbreakable as containers also make them unbreakable when they’re trash.
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CHINA APPROVES PILOTLESS ROBOTAXIS FOR COMMERCIAL OPERATION
Urban mobility company EHang has received a green light from China’s regulators to fly pilotless taxis at low altitude in the cities of Guangzhou and Hefei.
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HIGH-TECH SCIENCE SPECIAL REPORT: SERVICE ROBOTS ARE HERE TO HELP
Japan, with one of the world’s oldest populations, faces a labor shortage. The lack is particularly acute in restaurants, where servers work hard, pay is low, and grumpy customers must be kept happy.
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HAS D-WAVE REALLY ACHIEVED “QUANTUM SUPREMACY?”
D-Wave, a California research firm, has published a technical paper claiming it has achieved “quantum supremacy”—using a quantum computer to solve a problem beyond the reach of today’s supercomputers.
