“As the historian David Courtwright notes in his book Forces of Habit, the past five centuries have been profoundly shaped by the rise of several drugs which have one big thing in common: they became global commodities during the early […]
“How a Montreal copywriter swindled victims out of $200 million by pretending to be a legendary psychic.” ~ learn more
“University of California Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy source, a study published in Nature Water shows.” ~ learn […]
“Early results of this reform effort, the first of its kind in any state, are now coming into view, and so far, they are not encouraging. State leaders have acknowledged faults with the policy’s implementation and enforcement measures. And Oregon’s […]
I like this post because of the detailed descriptions of the various technologies for direct carbon capture. I don’t think I agree with the premise that it’s imperative to achieve a specific international target for average warming. ~ learn more
“GMOs have historically faced stiff opposition in Europe. The draft law would enable the release of new crop varieties, such as disease-resistant potatoes that would require far less fungicide, says Matin Qaim, an agricultural economist at the University of Bonn. […]
“The company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a technique that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR to make around 70 edits to a pig’s genome. These edits should allow the organs to be successfully transplanted into people, the team says. […]
Freezing organs is relatively easy, but thawing them is a challenge. “We show that vitrified kidneys can be cryogenically stored (up to 100 days) and successfully recovered by nanowarming to allow transplantation and restore life-sustaining full renal function in nephrectomized […]
Imagine a world where we could make machines at nanometer scale, the width of a single DNA strand. “With the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies capable of designing and anticipating protein structures, the near-term prospect for synthesized molecules in industry […]
I read this book by Matthew Walker a couple years ago and it influenced me to care more about my sleep quality. I now learn (belatedly) that there are many deep flaws contained within. Unlike when Daniel Kahneman retracted an entire […]