Category: Science
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What if you could ask the best scientists on earth any question you want, any time? New chatbots are making that a reality. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Consensus searches 200 million scholarly publications to answer questions on medicine, science, and even economics. Let’s give it a try! I…
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It’s time we acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: everybody burps and farts. But amongst all animals, cows are the reigning champions. Those charming emissions contain methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Indeed, cows produce more greenhouse gases than Brazil or Germany. But an innovative startup may have found the solution. Mootral produces…
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NASA intends to put the first man on Mars in the 2030’s. But once he’s there, what will he have for lunch? Perhaps veggies grown in a BioPod. This incredible new device from startup Interstellar Lab could finally allow us to cultivate crops in space. It could also revolutionize agriculture…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! No one wants to get old. But how can we stop and even reverse aging? Perhaps a Dream Team of the world’s greatest scientists. And a whole lot of money. Well, that just became a reality. For those of us who follow venture capital, the news…
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Never miss a post! Subscribe! I woke up this morning and wandered into the kitchen. I opened the fridge and poured a delicious glass of tingly seltzer. Mango flavor. After a glass or two, I threw out the empty plastic bottle. That bottle may soon make it into the ocean…
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What would it be like to not have ears? Unfortunately, for patients with microtia, this is no hypothetical. Microtia, or lack of a fully developed ear, is a congenital condition affecting about 1 in every 6-8,000 people. Some patients have a malformed outer ear. Others have almost no ear tissue…
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Breast cancer killed 685,000 women worldwide last year. But the Cleveland Clinic has a new drug that could change that: Cleveland Clinic researchers have opened a novel study for a vaccine aimed at eventually preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease. Triple negative breast…
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The US West Coast wildfire season used to be 4 months long. Now it’s 8, running from May to January. 2.5 million acres of land have burned in California alone this year. But for desperate homeowners in fire prone regions, there may be hope. Several new technologies have been developed…
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A fascinating new device could one provide the elusive male contraceptive: German design graduate Rebecca Weiss has won a James Dyson Award for a male contraceptive device called Coso, which uses ultrasound waves to temporarily halt sperm regeneration. Weiss’s Coso device is designed to be a reversible contraceptive solution. To…
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Only about half the world has internet access. Even rural America lags behind in broadband penetration. But what if everyone on earth had incredibly fast internet for $1 a month? A fascinating company called Akash Systems just might pull that off. It is delivering internet 100 times more cheaply than…
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