Dried leaves convert small temperature differences into electricity through ion movement, offering a natural, biodegradable platform for efficient thermal energy harvesting that rivals engineered thermoelectric materials.
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Natural leaves convert mild temperature differences into electricity
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How AI is supercharging plant immunity to fight deadly bacteria
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, used artificial intelligence to help plants recognize a wider range of bacterial threats — which may lead to new ways to protect crops like tomatoes and potatoes from devastating diseases. The…
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Innovative nanopore system enables controlled DNA unzipping
DNA holds the instructions that make us who we are. If we want to read those instructions, say to understand our predisposition to genetic disorders, we need to carefully ‘unzip’ DNA’s iconic double-helix structure. This is neither…
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The Download: A 30-year old baby, and OpenAI’s push into colleges
MIT Technology Review Narrated: Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models. Any action that can be captured by text—from playing a video…
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2,500-year-old honey solves 70-year mystery of ancient Greek jars
For almost 70 years, archaeologists have been puzzled by a sticky substance found in a bronze jar from an ancient Greek shrine in Paestum, Italy.
Discovered in 1954, the residue was initially thought to be honey, but later analyses failed to…
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Silicon Anode Battery Powers AI Smartphones
A novel lithium-ion battery that uses silicon in its anodes may have the highest energy density of any battery currently commercially available. Its manufacturer, Enovix, says it has shipped the new battery to a leading smartphone company for a…
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These Super-Resolution Microscopes Are Revealing the Inner Lives of Cells
Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases
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Immune cells migrate from the gut to breast during pregnancy and lactation
Of the 3.6 million babies born in the United States each year, around 80 percent begin breastfeeding in their first month of life. Breastfeeding has known benefits for both mother and child, reducing maternal risk of breast and…
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Amazon-backed firm unveils shared brains for all types of robots
Robotics startup Skild AI has designed an artificial intelligence model that can run on any robot, ranging from assembly-line machines to humanoids. The AI model, called Skild Brain, enables a robot to think, navigate, and respond more like…
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The pandemic’s secret aftershock: Inside the gut-brain breakdown
A new international study confirmed a significant post-pandemic rise in disorders of gut-brain interaction, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia, according to the paper published in Clinical Gastroenterology and…
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