Aigen’s bot trundles along between rows of crops, swinging metal arms back and forth under its belly. The arms end in blades, moving at ground height to lop off weeds.
Tag: Science
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FALSE TEETH? NO, GROW NEW REAL TEETH INSTEAD
After succeeding with mice and ferrets, Japanese researchers are preparing to begin a year-long trial of a treatment that can regrow missing teeth in humans.
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NUCLEAR POWER GOES UNDERGROUND
Startup company Deep Fission has a unique take on the idea of small, portable nuclear reactors in development by the U.S. energy department as well as several private firms. (See “A New Generation of Nuclear Power Plants is Here,” 9 Aug 2022.)
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BRAIN STRUCTURE MAY EXPLAIN CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL VIEWS BUT NOT LIBERAL ONES
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.
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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.