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What do you do when you have hundreds of billions of plastic bags stacking up, along with a need for more powerful and longer lasting batteries?
Magically convert the plastic into batteries worth their weight in gold, that’s what.
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Remember the water bottle that filled itself from the air using hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces?
Now, brilliant minds from the University of Engineering and Technology in Peru have deployed a functional billboard that absorbs water from the humid climate, filters it, and instantly makes it available to the locals for drinking, cooking and dumping on their heads.
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The field of neuroprosthetics has given a great deal of hope to those who had lost the hope of using their bodies normally ever again.
In an amazing presentation, Brazilian scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis outlines the evolution of brainwave translation using a brain computer interface.
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We know that there are billions upon billion of planets in the known universe. It makes sense that there would be some incredible variety in the climates of each and every celestial body.
But can you imagine a world where ice is hot? How about where rain is comprised of iron?
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Dr. Eric Topol is at the forefront of a revolution in the healthcare industry.
He believes technology that we have today can save lives, reduce wastefulness and save the industry billions of dollars.
Here’s a glimpse at where diagnosis, monitoring, and doctor-patient relationships are heading in the not so distant future.
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Lockheed Martin thinks so.
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We knew Dolphins were smart, but this smart?
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Did you know that there are animals living on Earth that possess actual superpowers?
We’re not talking crappy superpowers either; we’re talking creatures that can regenerate their limbs and brains, live forever and spit atomic fireballs.
Just the good stuff.
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Love is a complicated combination of brain chemicals and behavior that scientists are only just beginning to figure out. And it’s remarkable that in every society that we have looked at on Earth, romantic love exists. So if love is so universal, and there are 7 billion other people out there looking for it, why can it seem like it’s so hard to find?
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