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•A team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from Duke University have developed a promising technique for telepathic-like communication from thoughts alone by directly reading people’s thoughts.
•A team of Japanese scientists has developed a groundbreaking drug that stimulates the growth of new teeth—the first of its kind in the world.
•Chicken feathers can replace ‘Forever Chemicals’ in renewable hydrogen fuel cells, lowering cost.
•Microsoft is working on a new kind of storage technology, called Project Silica, that could store data essentially forever without any electricity. Instead of writing data to a magnetic storage medium, it encodes that data in a sheet of glass smaller than a DVD. More

•Swedish researchers have developed a new method of recycling batteries from electric vehicles that allows recovery of 100 percent of the aluminum and 98 percent of the lithium.
•Russia and China, along with France and Finland, have taken the lead in nuclear electricity generation.
•US banks closed over 3,000 branches last year while opening just 1,000. More

•Agriculture’s share of global GDP has shrunk to just 3 percent.
•Cell phone signals can be used to release biological or chemical payloads from graphene oxide that’s introduced into the human body.
•In the far future there will be only one supercontinent on earth, too hot for most species to survive. More

•A brain implant and digital avatar can made it possible for a stroke survivor to communicate more naturally through facial expressions alone.
•Scientists from the City College of New York (CCNY) developed a way to effectively trap light inside a metamaterial, and in turn make the light 10 times more magnetic.
•Bitcoin as a policy issue in the 2024 US election is being driven by 44% of voters coming from the Millennials and Gen-Z demographic. More

•Technology to target an individual person with the ability to erase the memories of any human is now available.
•American service members no longer required to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
•Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists, a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean.
•A Space Hotel Could Open as Soon as 2025. More

•Weapons can be used to directly attack or control brains using microwave or other directed energy weapons in handheld guns or larger weapons firing electromagnetic beams.
•Synthetic human embryos have been created using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm.
•200,000kg of plastic debris has been removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using AI powered cameras to extract waste from the ocean.
•Life-saving humanitarian coordination software used by the UN’s emergency response network was blocked in Syria after February’s devastating earthquake because of US sanctions. More

•Artificial intelligence algorithms can help predict a person’s political ideology based on their facial characteristics.
•It is statistically unlikely that humans are the only intelligent civilization in the universe.
•The EU is exploring the use of “digital twins” to create virtual factories that streamline production processes. More

•The expression of (mostly protein-coding) genes in white blood cells changes rapidly when astronauts reach the International Space Station.
•Rough parallel dune patterns are generated by strong prevailing winds.
•There has been heavy investment in insect factories to add processed bugs into foods.
•Astronauts are more susceptible to infections while in space. More

•There are five major hurdles to making AI safe for humanity.
•60% of clothing ends up in a landfill within 12 months of its manufacturing date.
•Chinese automakers have embarked on a major expansion in the Russian market and are expected to reach a 60% share of total sales this year.
•Inspired by photosynthesis, researchers have developed an “artificial leaf” that can convert CO2, water and sunlight into multi-carbon fuels. More

•An expert in sequencing methods for DNA and RNA has inadvertently discovered that the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 bivalent vaccines actually contained a lot of DNA in the background potentially capable of inserting itself into the genome of an organism.
•The human impact on the earth’s temperature is believed to account for only 10% of all the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
•Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has won FDA approval for in-human clinical study.
•Four countries, China, the US, India and Russia, have tested anti-satellite capabilities by destroying their own satellites with missiles from the ground. More

•A new gene editing technique has been developed that does not require modified viruses to deliver the template DNA.
•Wind power was Britain’s largest source of electricity in the first quarter of 2023.
•The first gun with facial and fingerprint recognition is now on the market.
•Saturn’s rings are no more than 400 million years although Saturn itself is about 4.5 billion years old. More

•A Nobel Prize winner has predicted that in the next twenty to forty years sex will no longer be the method by which most people in developed countries make babies.
•1540 experts agree there is no climate emergency.
•ChatGPT and similar large language programs are already on the edge of becoming obsolete.
•The Moon is edging away from the Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches every year. More