“Sodium solid-state batteries are usually seen as a far-off-in-the-future technology, but we hope that this paper can invigorate more push into the sodium area by demonstrating that it can indeed work well, even better than the lithium version in some […]
“Cultivarium builds tools to grow, transform, and engineer “extraordinary” microbes: the salt lovers, heat tolerators, and geyser growers that have long been inaccessible to scientists. Studying such organisms might lead to better gene-editing tools or medicines. And regardless of whether […]
This is anonymously published by “a midwestern doctor” so who knows just how much of this is bs. Informed readers, please write to me! “Skin cancers are by far the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, so to […]
“Mark Twain was once invited to give a toast to a gathering of the great Civil War heroes in New York. He could have chosen any topic, but Twain, always looking for the unexpected and the humorous, chose babies. When […]
“These female AI users, flipping the stereotype of under-socialized men chatting with AI girlfriends in their parents’ basement, are challenging assumptions about the nature of human intimacy.” ~ learn more
“If you outsource your core competencies to someone else, particularly a 3rd party AI company, then that tool is getting better and regardless of what it does or doesn’t do with your data, it may enable more people to compete […]
Don’t worry, a new technology could allow the recycling of urine into drikable water. “The prototype, modelled on the “stillsuits” in the sci-fi classic Dune, collects urine, purifies it and can return it to the astronaut through a drinking tube […]
“She came to the US with a dream. Using platforms like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash, she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one problem.” ~ learn more
“Flettner rotors are large rotating cylinders that produce aerodynamic thrust at right angles of the air passing over them. The CoFlow Jet cylinders developed by Zha don’t rotate. They draw in a bit of the air from the wind blowing […]
Pasta science! “We tested pasta without salt because salting your pasta water is one of the most common pieces of advice. We tried pasta in cold water to test the story that Lan Lam shared about her friend. And we […]