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The First Robots Ever Built From Frog Cells Might Someday Clean the Ocean
Xenobots — millimeter-scale robots built entirely from frog cells and designed by an evolutionary algorithm —…
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Scientists Just Measured a Human Heartbeat Using a Diamond, Not an Electrode
Three research teams just measured a human heartbeat’s magnetic field using diamond quantum sensors originally built…
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The Industry That Bet Against the Sun — And Is Losing to Its Electric Bill
AeroFarms, Bowery Farming, and Plenty all raised hundreds of millions of dollars — then collapsed under…
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Depression Isn’t One Disease. A Brain Scan Might Finally Prove It.
A Stanford study used brain scans to sort depression into six distinct “biotypes,” each responding differently…
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Researchers Covered a Daycare Playground in Forest Dirt. The Kids’ Immune Systems Changed in a Month.
A Finnish trial covered daycare playgrounds in forest soil and measured children’s immune biomarkers shift within…
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Scientists Just Put a Rat Into Hibernation It Was Never Built For
Researchers induced a reversible, hibernation-like state in rats — a species that never evolved to hibernate…
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Seeing Blood Vessels the Width of a Human Hair — With Sound
A technique borrowed from Nobel-winning optical microscopy now lets ultrasound see blood vessels far smaller than…
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Scientists Want to Fertilize a Patch of Ocean the Size of Rhode Island — On Purpose
A team of 23 scientists is calling for large-scale ocean iron fertilization trials to test whether…
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The Bacteria Turning PepsiCo’s Wastewater Into Electricity
A shipping container of bacteria is helping PepsiCo cut wastewater costs by up to 60% —…
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Sound as a Scalpel: Ultrasound’s Quiet Expansion Beyond Cancer
Focused ultrasound already treats Parkinson’s tremor without incisions. Now researchers are using the same sound-based precision…
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