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- DNA: Evidence of cosmic engineering
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- Ovarian tissue freezing: Could it delay or even prevent menopause?
- Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid
- Should the world accelerate the development of cultured meat to save us from pandemics far worse than COVID-19? A "near miss" potential disaster with H5N1 bird flu & American milk suggests the answer might be yes.
- The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
- Is there a possible future where humans dont require sleep?
- "You won't have a calculator to hand when you go shopping" - Maths teacher.
- Enter Robots, Are We Ready? - Humanoid robots are on the horizon. Will they change our ideas of personhood?
- The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones
- Clean energy, free energy.
- German researchers have developed a solar cell film, 1/20th the thickness of human hair, that allows small commercial drones coated with it to be fully self-charging.
- Tiny Biosensor Unlocks the Secrets of Sweat. A new wearable patch uses microfluidic chambers and graphene to detect biomarkers.
- ‘Cheap and simple’ Bill Gates-backed fusion concept surpasses heat of the Sun in milestone moment - Z pinch fusion device ‘less expensive and quicker to build’ than mainstream technologies, claims start-up
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- Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid: “We can [now] make hydraulic actuators soft and self-controlled. The fluid itself is doing all the control for us, so we don’t have to control the robot from the outside”
- MIT researchers discover "photomolecular effect": light alone can evaporate water without heat, a previously unknown physics phenomenon that could enable new technologies
- You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 - Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
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