All posts tagged "research"
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1.3KFutureLab-grown Blood Now Entering World’s First Clinical Trial
A ray of hope for people with rare blood types, a world’s first clinical trial started where lab-grown blood will be given...
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2.0KFutureAtmospheric Levels of All Three Greenhouse Gasses Reach Record Highs, Warn Scientists
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) drew the alarm this week, announcing that atmospheric levels of greenhouse gasses have reached record highs. Warning...
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1.7KPhonesE-waste Reaches Alarming Levels, with Five Billion Phones To Be Thrown Away This Year
The problem of e-waste is reaching alarming levels, with one estimate saying that 5.3 billion phones will be thrown away this year...
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4.5KMiscBioNTech Founders Say Vaccines for Cancer Treatments Could Be Here By 2030
Ugur Sahin and and Özlem Türeci, the founders of BioNTech and “the husband and wife team behind one of the most successful...
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3.5KFutureAn Experimental Test for Parkinson’s Was Inspired By A Supersmeller Who Can Sniff Out the Illness
A Scottish woman named Joy Milne became famous because of her supersmeller abilities and now scientists are on the brink of creating...
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1.4KFutureMIT Engineers Made A Battery-free, Wireless Camera That Works For Weeks Underwater
An invention that could change how we explore the depths of the ocean and monitor pollution levels, this MIT camera is a...
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1.7KFutureCassie, A Bipedal Sprinting Robot, Sets New World Record for the 100m Dash
Better start working on your cardio if you’re afraid of robots because they’re getting faster by the day. Cassie, a bipedal robot...
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1.7KFutureUK Companies Testing the 4-Day Workweek Say They Saw No Loss In Productivity
More than 70 companies in the UK are doing a six-month experiment that may have positive consequences all over the world: what...
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3.1KFutureKorean Nuclear Fusion Reactor KSTAR Reached 100 million Degrees Celsius, Held Temp for 30 seconds
Yong-Su Na at Seoul National University in South Korea and his colleagues managed an incredible performance that could bring about viable fusion...
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2.7K1Smart LifeYour PC’s Carbon Footprint Gets Huge If You Go For A SSD Instead of HDD, Reveals Study
Do you know what your PC’s carbon footprint is? Most people don’t consider their devices when making sustainable choices to try and...
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2.3KFutureMIT Engineers Reveal Ultrasound Stickers that See Inside Patients As They Go About Their Lives
Getting an ultrasound is nothing special but does require you to lose a day at the doctor’s office. That could change very...
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3.4KMiscA New Fossil Discovery Suggests The Loch Ness Monster Was Actually Real, Though Maybe Not In Scotland
Finally, all those Nessie souvenirs picked up by people visiting Scotland could very well be reproductions of the real Loch Ness monster....
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3.6KMiscNecrobotics, The Nightmare Fuel Science: Here’s How Dead Spiders Were Turned Into Robotic Grips
If an encounter with a spider leaves you shrieking like Ron Weasley in the second Harry Potter movie, just skip this news...
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6.5KFutureMIT Scientists Develop A Way to Boil Water Quicker
Water boiling might seem like a process so simple that science couldn’t possibly improve but this research shows there is a way....
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3.5KFutureScary Minority Report Scenario Or Useful Tool? Researchers Built An Algorithm That Predicts Future Crime With 90% Accuracy
Minority Report had Precogs, clairvoyant humans that could read the future, but in the real world we have algorithms. Are they just...
