While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they are actually so much more than that. They help us deepen things, feed trees nitrogen, play an enormous role in cycling the earth’s nutrients, and survive extreme extremes. Recently, we discovered some of these incredibly tough and thin packages of life …
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Technology that can turn salty seawater into brackish water into safe, clean drinking water has the potential to transform millions of lives around the world, which is why so many scientists are working on projects to do just that. Now, a new innovation developed by scientists in Australia could be …
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The need for sleep goes far beyond simply replenishing our energy levels every 12 hours. Our brains actually change states when we sleep to remove the toxic byproducts of neural activity during the day. Strangely enough, research on mice has revealed that the same process is beginning to occur in …
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If we’re going to take long-term space travel seriously, it will be essential to be able to repair injuries, and that is no longer a distant concept. A cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station has just designed human cartilage in microgravity from space for the first time. Bioprinters that can …
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We already know that our brains have a waste disposal system that prevents dead and toxic neurons from obstructing our biological pathways. Now, scientists have managed to capture a video of the process for the first time, in laboratory tests on mice. There are still a lot of things we …
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