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Biohybrid Computing: Mini Brain Organoids Read Braille
In a recent study, researchers sent signals from a sensor detecting tactile patterns associated with different Braille letters that were received by brain organoids. Individual organoids were able to ...
Earth Sciences
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Leaf Them On The Ground: Benefit More By Doing Less Yardwork
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrive...
Life Sciences
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194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
Genetic analysis of a Aldabrachelys gigantea tortoise named Jonathan reveals that if you take care of your DNA, it will take care of you. Jonathan, age 194, maintains good DNA repair and good ins...
Medicine
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Wellness Grifters Switched To Republican With Kennedy, But The Sketch Remains The Same
Just a few short years ago, if you believed that weedkillers cause cancer, vaccines cause autism, and supplements were medicine, your political leaning was so predictable you draw a county-size circle...
Physical Sciences
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Breaking The Shower Containment Taboo For Hadron Calorimeters
Hadron calorimeters are particle detectors meant to measure the total energy possessed by high-energy subatomic particles that hit their front face and develop a shower of secondary particles inside t...
Social Sciences
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Extrovert Win: The Happiest People Spend Time With Others
In the real world, currency and production are not a zero-sum game that someone needs to control and in social currency, it is much the same, according to social psychologists. Investing in the intere...
