Whether you lean right politically may be a result of how your brain is put together, according to new research from the American College of Greece.
Tag: Science
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NEW TECH LETS YOU LITERALLY READ A PERSON’S THOUGHTS
The Miniaturized Brain-Machine Interface (MiBMI) from EPFL, Switzerland’s university of technology, is an electronic chip smaller than a postage stamp but can gather signals from 512 of the brain’s information channels simultaneously.
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A CHEAPER WAY TO HARVEST MORE LITHIUM FROM WASTEWATER
Battery producers are scrambling to tie down supplies of lithium, the metal at the heart of mobile technologies. By some estimates, demand for lithium will quadruple from 2022 through 2029, while new mines face delays put up by regulators and environmentalists.
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BALD NO MORE? NATURAL SUGAR REGROWS HAIR ON MICE
For the 50 percent or more of men who will see their hair disappearing down the shower drain at some point, researchers at the University of Sheffield and Pakistan’s COMSATS University have promising news: a sugar present in humans and animals seems to regrow hair.
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A NEW PROCESS TURNS PLASTIC TRASH BACK INTO USABLE PLASTIC
A process created by chemists at the University of California Berkeley vaporizes two of the most common waste plastics, turning them into gases that can be used to make more of the same plastics again.
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REVERSE-ENGINEERING THE PLACEBO EFFECT RELIEVES CHRONIC PAIN IN MICE
The “placebo effect” refers to people feeling relief from symptoms when given a substance they believe to be medicine but really isn’t—a sugar pill instead of an actual drug, for example.
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A BETTER WAY TO CULL CRUCIAL METALS
Rare earth metals aren’t actually rare. Some are as abundant as copper.
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FASTER, CHEAPER WAY TO MAKE SEAWATER POTABLE
As the world’s population increases, the amount of clean water diminishes.
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EV BATTERY RECYCLING MADE EASY
When an electric vehicle’s battery pack reaches the end of its useful life, it still contains metals and other materials that can be reclaimed and reused.
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CANCER DRUGS RESCUE MOUSE BRAINS FROM ALZHEIMER’S
A new class of drugs developed to treat brain, blood, and breast cancers also relieves symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease in mice.