Science & Technology

It turns out that a breakfast staple around the world might just be the answer for removing microplastics from water. Princeton researchers have successfully used egg whites to create a lightweight and porous aerogel material that can be used in several ways, including water filtration, energy storage, and sound, as well as insulation.…
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Researchers recently discovered that the proton sometimes includes a charm quark and charm antiquark, colossal particles that are each heavier than the proton itself. “The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We've…
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Experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half a century is that the universe is not locally real. In this context, “real” means that objects have definite properties independent of observation – an apple can be red even when no one is…
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On March 19, 2020 the State of California became the first state to issue a stay-at-home order, mandating all residents stay at home except to go to an essential job or shop for essential needs. Within weeks most of the world followed. For the next three months total energy use across all sectors… transportation, industrial,…
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The company behind the engine claims it overcomes the shortcomings of hydrogen fuel cells. Israel-based Aquarius Engines unveiled a new hydrogen engine that it says could do away with the global reliance on hydrogen fuel cells and fossil fuels, the company explained in a press statement via PR Newswire. The machine, which weighs…
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Data can be encoded as DNA but are difficult to process thereafter. A new method enables operations to be performed on DNA-encoded data directly, without having to first translate them into their electronic equivalent. DNA can be used to reliably store a vast amount of digital data. However, retrieval or manipulation of…
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Water is clearly one of the most important factors for your health – especially when you consider that your body actually consists of over 99 percent water molecules! Water is a really underappreciated part of the equation of optimal health. Dr. Gerald Pollack is one of the leading premier research scientists in the world when it…
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Scientists have discovered they can boost people’s memory for a least a month by harmlessly stimulating parts of the brain with electricity. Volunteers performed better at word memorisation games, which tested both their immediate “working” memory and their long-term memory, experts found. Exactly what the results mean for…
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The mechanism by which the plant hormone, cytokinin, controls cell division has been discovered – a breakthrough that significantly improves our understanding of how plants grow. Cell division is fundamental for all forms of life, all multi-cellular organisms, including plants and animals, develop from a single cell that divides…
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A New Zealand firm is aiming to make an old idea work commercially. Behind Nikola Tesla’s former laboratory at Wardenclyffe on Long Island, New York, are some old foundations. They are all that remains of a 57-metre tower which Tesla began building in 1901 as part of an experiment to transmit information and electricity wirelessly over…
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