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Brain scans show fasting literally rewires your brain:

Brain scans of participants in a recent study showed changes in brain areas that regulate appetite and addiction, including the inferior frontal orbital gyrus. At the same time, tests of stool samples and blood showed changes in the gut bacteria, especially with types called Coprococcus comes and Eubacterium hallii.

The research was published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

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Japan-based Kirin Holdings has showcased its new electric spoon at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2025) in Las Vegas.

What makes it different from any other ordinary spoon in the market is that it can make the food seem saltier, and by that, it also means tastier.

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As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job growth by 2030.

T-Mobile has announced the purchase of digital outdoor advertisement company Vistar Media.

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they’ll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.

Engineers have all the technology they need to make flying cars, but there are still some barriers to getting these sci-fi mainstays off the ground.

Metamaterials can reverse light’s path in time within nanoseconds, defying conventional physics.

There’s only a few things standing in our way.

Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by introducing impurities such as the element boron.

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have now discovered another interesting property in diamonds with added boron, known as boron-doped diamonds.

Their findings could pave the way for new types of biomedical and quantum optical devices—faster, more efficient, and capable of processing information in ways that classical technologies cannot. Their results are published in Nature Communications.