Cacao swollen shoot virus disease is attacking cacao trees in Ghana, destroying up to half of the current harvest. About half of the global supply of cacao, from which chocolate is made, comes from Ghana and neighboring Ivory Coast.
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WEIGHT-LOSS DRUGS: 42 BENEFITS, 19 DANGERS
Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy may help you avoid 42 different health problems but steer you toward 19 dangerous conditions, according to one of the most comprehensive studies yet done on the compounds.
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SURGEONS FULLY INTEGRATE BIONIC LIMB INTO WOMAN’S BODY
In Sweden, surgeons have fully connected a woman’s artificial forearm and hand with both her skeletal and nervous system, allowing her to move her hand and digits almost as easily as the real thing.
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REDESIGNING THE PASSENGER JET
JetZero, a California startup, has revived a century-old aerodynamic concept to redesign the passenger jet.
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CHINA TO BUILD GIANT SOLAR FARM—IN SPACE
China has announced plans to build a solar array a kilometer wide—more than a half-mile—in geostationary orbit around the Earth that will beam energy back to ground as microwaves.
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SURGICAL ROBOT LEARNS ITS TRADE BY WATCHING VIDEOS
Robots have been doing surgery for 40 years, with their grippers and snippers guided by human surgeons using joysticks.
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QUANTUM SOFTWARE FOR YOUR QUANTUM COMPUTER
Quantum computers, which capitalize on quirks of quantum physics to operate orders of magnitude faster than silicon-based machines, are barely emerging from the experimental stage but software designers are already making programs for them.
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HYBRID EVS ARE SO YESTERDAY. NOW SUPER-HYBRIDS ARE HERE.
Hybrid vehicles are evolving. The most common type has a battery pack that can move a car for short distances before the gasoline engine takes over.
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BOSTON START-UP ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL FUSION-BASED POWER PLANT
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a start-up founded by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it will build a commercial, fusion-based power plant in Virginia that is slated to begin producing electricity early in the next decade.
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TRICKING CANCER CELLS INTO BECOMING NORMAL AGAIN
Killing cancer cells with chemicals and radiation can be grueling for the patient and have nasty, long-lasting side effects. So what if you could persuade those same cancer cells just to be normal again?