Metals conduct electricity because their atoms and molecules are arranged in tight, repeating patterns that allow electrons to flow through them with ease.
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MINING RARE EARTH ELEMENTS WITH ELECTRICITY
Rare earth elements are key components in our electrified world, used in everything from electric motors to flat-screen televisions. But acquiring them is a messy business.
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SELF-ASSEMBLING BACTERIA CAN MAKE A BETTER DRUG FACTORY
Various strains of genetically engineered bacteria have been used as industrial workhorses for years. It’s a straightforward idea: you engineer a bacterium’s genome so that when it eats specific things, it exudes or excretes the exact product you want.
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EMROD PROPOSES A SPACE-BASED “WORLD ENERGY MATRIX”
The idea of collecting solar energy out beyond Earth’s atmosphere and then beaming it to receivers on the ground has been around for years; experiments have shown the concept is feasible.
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SCIENTISTS SYNTHESIZE ALTERNATIVE TO RARE EARTH METALS
Rare earth metals are essential in virtually every kind of electronic device with a motor, from electric cars to wind turbines.
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TOO FAT? EAT SAND.
But not just any sand. At Stockholm University, scientists tested porous particles of silica—sand —as a weight loss aid.
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NEW TECHNOLOGY HARVESTS DRINKING WATER FROM PLANTS
London-based Botanical Water Technologies (BWT) has partnered with Ingomar Packing Co., one of the chief U.S. processors of tomatoes, to test BWT’s method of harvesting water from tomatoes.
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META WANTS TO REPLACE YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER WITH A HEADSET
Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, hopes its’ new, $1,500 ProQuest virtual reality headset will prove to be a better venue for virtual business meetings than personal computers.
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ROOFTOP WIND TURBINE MAY MAKE MORE ENERGY, CHEAPER THAN SOLAR
Sandia National Laboratory, Texas Tech University, and BASF, the world’s largest chemicals manufacturer, are testing a wind energy generator by a Texas start-up called Aeromine Technologies that claims its design makes 150 percent more energy than a solar panel array of the same price and takes up a tenth of the space.
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BRAIN CELLS IN A LAB DISH LEARN TO PLAY A VIDEO GAME
Biologists and computer scientists at Australia’s Monash University have taught a cluster of brain cells living in a lab dish to play Pong, the rudimentary ping-pong video game from the 1970s.