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The Season of Curated Recaps Is Here, With CES Around the Corner
Imagine eye drops that temporarily correct your vision. Or ear buds that transform how you sleep. Or a new type of wood that has the...
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Lessons From the Reinvention of Pittsburgh into an AI Robotics Hub
Pittsburgh was known for steel. Now the city has ambitions to become a hub for something else: AI and robotics. The pieces seem to be...
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The Room Where You Can Hear Your Own Nervous System
Imagine a room so quiet you can actually feel your own heart beating. It exists already and it’s known as an anechoic chamber. Over the...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Shape of Wonder by Alan Lightman and Martin Rees
A book like this shouldn’t really be necessary. If we all had a shared understanding of why science matters, what it is and all the...
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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...
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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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