The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the conditions of early Earth could be simulated in a glass flask. New research finds the flask itself played an under appreciated, though outsized role.
Ultrasound triggered cells home in on tumors and then self destruct to deliver damage or therapeutics from inside.
With 360 million times more pressure than we experience on the Earth’s surface, things are bound to get strange.
The sphere of iron that resides there is also under extreme pressure: about 360 million times more pressure than we experience on the Earth’s surface.
Our universe has been developing for about 14 billion years, but human-level intelligence, at least on Earth, has emerged in a remarkably short period of time, measured in tens or hundreds of thousands of years. What then is the future of intelligence?
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Mica is Microsoft’s new transparency effect for Windows 11. It is similar to Acrylic but optimised for performance by only sampling from your wallpaper rather than the app below you.
Microsoft has been rolling out the new look to more and more native apps, and now Office Insiders and Beta users are reporting that the effect is also showing up in their apps.
Yet another EV start-up has plans for an electric truck, and this one has a few things in common with the Cybertruck. Here’s what it plans to offer.
The Cybertruck won’t be out for another year at the earliest, but it keeps inviting fresh competition from EV start-ups and established automakers alike. The latest such hopeful arrived at the LA auto show a few days ago, featuring styling that could be described as a smoothed-out Cybertruck.
The latest contender concept hails from EdisonFuture, not to be confused with Faraday Future, and like Tesla it is once again named after a 19th century electrical pioneer. (Yes, most of the names of 19th century electrical innovators are already taken by EV start-ups).
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Circa 2020
One possibility for curbing the spread of airborne pathogens is a nonthermal plasma reactor.
After finding a mysterious indestructible rock in 2015, Hole’s rock has finally been carbon-dated to roughly 100–1,000 years old meteorite.
Upside Foods opened the largest synthetic meat factory in the world. It’s designed to grow thousands of pounds of chicken, beef and pork. Backed by Bill Gates and Richard Branson, Upside is betting consumers will go for vat-grown meat.
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