SolarEdge, an Israeli company making solar energy equipment, has invited thousands of Britons who own its home storage batteries as part of their solar power systems to join together in the U.K.’s first virtual power plant.
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STUDY: EXHAUST FROM LEADED GAS COST AMERICANS 800 MILLION IQ POINTS
Since the 1940s, breathing exhaust from leaded gasoline reduced the intelligence of 170 million Americans now living, robbing the nation collectively of 824 million IQ points—about three points per person, according to a study out of Duke University.
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A FIRST: AIRPLANE FLIES WITH NO MOVING PARTS
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have flown an aircraft that has no moving parts.
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AI INVENTS NEW PROTEINS
Life is a process of proteins interacting. What if new proteins never seen before are introduced?
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FLASH OF LIGHT CAN HELP BRAIN LEARN THREE TIMES FASTER
A calm brain is a brain on alpha waves. A brain on alpha waves is ready to triple its learning speed, researchers at the University of Cambridge have found.
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ARTIFICIAL BLOOD IS ON THE WAY
A wide-ranging team of bioscientists and biotech firms are collaborating to concoct artificial blood that can be freeze-dried, then reconstituted by medics on the spot when people are injured in war, car accidents, and other traumas.
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RESEARCHERS SEE LINKS BETWEEN CANCER AND ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS
After finding correlations between cancer and a diet heavy in ultra-processed foods, researchers at Imperial College London are urging warning labels be put on the offending products.
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IT’S SCIENCE: TRAFFIC SMOG DAMAGES YOUR BRAIN
Breathing diesel exhaust while gridlocked in traffic can begin to de-wire your brain in two hours, a new study from the University of British Columbia found.
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“FOREVER CHEMICALS?” MAYBE NOT SO MUCH.
Perfluoroalkyls and polyfluoroalkyls, known as PFAs, are a family of more than 5,000 substances called “forever chemicals” because that’s how long they seem to last: their carbon and fluorine bonds are so strong as to seem unbreakable.
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TWEAK GENE, REJUVENATE HEART
An Italian study of centenarian superagers—people 100 years old or more who remain unusually healthy—found that a large proportion of them share a mutant gene that seems to keep hearts healthy as we age.
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