Using a special strain of bacteria, a research team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created nanowires that can make an electric charge by pulling humidity—even tiny amounts—from air.
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RECOVERING MINERALS THROUGH PHYTOMINING
Forward-thinking researchers are foreseeing a time when future generations of humanity are running short of minerals because their ancestors have used them up.
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PARALYZED MAN WALKS WITH ELECTRONIC BRAIN-SPINE BRIDGE
Gert-Jan Oskam, a Dutch man whose spinal cord was damaged in a bicycle accident, is able to walk again, thanks to an electronic “bridge” that transmits signals from his brain to the spinal column below the injury.
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BENCHTOP DNA PRINTERS: A NEW WEAPON OF TERROR?
Research biologists editing DNA have been buying their DNA samples from about 100 specialty suppliers. Those samples have been used to create new drugs, biofuels, and crops.
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EV START-UP IS BUILDING A BATTERY-SWAPPING INFRASTRUCTURE
When electric vehicle (EV) start-up Fisker introduces its “Ocean” SUV in the U.S. next year, it also will unveil its new battery-swapping station that can “refuel” its cars in the time it takes to fill a tank with gas, the company says.
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INHALED POWDER PROTECTS AGAINST CORONAVIRUS
When the next coronavirus starts spreading, we might be able to avoid doing battle over facemasks, thanks to a compound developed by researchers at North Carolina State University.
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NEW AI CAN SIMULATE 10,000 SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS IN A DAY
BacterAI, a new artificial intelligence (AI) created by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Michigan, carried out as many as 10,000 science experiments in a single day without human intervention as it sought to define the metabolic processes of two bacteria.
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A BATTERY TO FLY AN AIRPLANE
China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), the world leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for vehicles, says it will soon begin mass-producing an “ultra-high density condensed battery” that can store twice as much energy by weight as Tesla’s state-of-the art 4680 battery.
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ANOTHER STEP TOWARD A “FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH” PILL
A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences injected an extract from grape seed into elderly mice and found that the treatment increased their longevity by 9 percent, the equivalent of almost 7 extra years for a human.
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INSIGHTS ON THE TECHNOCRATIC ASCENDANCE, AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR HUMANITY
A few overarching themes can explain and connect a lot of the core aims of technocrats. Technocrats are driven by a quest to comprehensively apply science in order to engineer progress.
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