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The Perfect Astronaut of the Future Is Changing—Here’s Why It Matters
In the late 1950s, NASA recruited 11 men aged 25-48 for a unique experiment that has today been mostly forgotten. The participants, known to history...
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This Genetic Engineering Startup Wants to Make Fluorescent Bunnies and Actual Unicorns
In case you needed more life imitating fiction, a startup known as The Los Angeles Project is using gene editing to experiment with doing some “crazy” things to...
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Why the Titan Submersible Sub Tragedy Is One We Can’t Look Away From
It has been nearly a year since the OceanGate Titan submersible submarine imploded, killing its five passengers which included Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate. The...
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Can Seaweed Mining Become the Next Billion Dollar Industry?
A tiny branch of the US Department of Energy focused on high-risk projects just awarded $5 million dollars to three startup ventures that are each...
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The Minus Chair Saves the Earth by Cutting Down More Trees?
What if you could design furniture that captures more carbon than it emits? That’s the vision behind the Minus Chair, a design award winning new product...
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The Next Magical Space Material Might Be … Wood
Back in 2022 three different wood samples were sent to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Japanese Experimental Kibo Module. After ten...
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Flushless Toilets, Plastic Reuse, and More Ideas From the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale
Imagine a toilet that never needs to be flushed. Arid desert land converted into abundant living spaces. Plastic yellow gallon oil containers upcycled into chairs and...
Read Now19 2023 October
How the Liquid Tree Might Be a Game-Changer for Urban Air Pollution
“We are not trying to replace trees. We are trying to replace benches.” That’s the clever pitch of a project imagined and created by Serbian...
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The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever
Bryan Johnson is technically 46 years old, but his biological age is eighteen. The life he leads to maintain this statistic has all the joy...
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How Coldplay Is Redefining What Sustainability Means for Music Concerts
What if a music concert was created with sustainability as a priority? Coldplay is showcasing just how significant a difference this could make in their...
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The Most Popular Non-Obvious Stories of 2022 (Based On Reader Feedback)
Based on this combination of quantitative and qualitative data, here is a partial list of some of the most popular stories of the year, based on what my readers shared.
Read Now25 2022 August
Should We Bring Extinct Animals Back To Life?
Humanity may be close to having the power to bring back extinct species. They are calling it “de-extinction” and the company behind the effort, Colossal Biosciences, is...
Read Now13 2022 August
A Scientist’s Joke Goes Horribly Wrong When People Take Him Seriously
Just because a piece of information comes from a "credible" source, we don't live in a world where any media source should be trusted blindly--no matter how credible they seem.
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