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Glowing plants instead of lights? 💡

MIT created light-emitting plants to be bright enough to illuminate a home or office workspace.

The plants can now be charged by a LED in just 10 seconds and last for several minutes. 🤯

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https://interestingengineering.com/mit-wants-to-replace-lights-with-glowing-plants

MIT Wants to Replace Lights With Glowing Plants MIT researchers have developed a more effective way for plants to emit light through the application of nanoparticles. Learn how they do it.

Microsoft and Nvidia have trained the largest and most capable AI-powered language model.

The Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation has 530 billion parameters and achieves unmatched accuracy in a set of language tasks🤯

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https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/11/microsoft-and-nvidia-team-up-to-train-one-of-the-worlds-largest-language-models/

Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained one of the world's largest natural language models, containing 530 billion parameters.

Scientists have now managed to snap images of a Wigner crystal.

A Wigner crystal is a honeycomb arrangement of slowed-down electrons that, adding a graphene layer, can be seen in solid form. 🔬

Check out the images in the article below 👇
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02657-6

This is what a solid made of electrons looks like Physicists have imaged elusive ‘Wigner crystals’ for the first time.

Researchers have observed warm gas emitting from an active black hole for the first time thanks to the Low Frequency ARray (LOFAR) frequency radio telescope. 🔭

Check out the videos in the article below 👇
https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-observed-warm-matter-emanating-from-a-black-hole

Scientists Just Observed Warm Matter Emanating From a Black Hole An cosmic collection of bubbles and magnetic filaments spanning enormous distances through the intergalactic medium was witnessed for the first time!

The glymphatic system cleans out toxic waste products from the brain during deep sleep. 😴🛌

Researchers are now developing a wearable skullcap that can measure and control those fluid flow in the brain during sleep.

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https://newatlas.com/science/brain-cleaning-skullcap-sleep-glymphatic-system-us-army

Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding Everybody knows sleep is important, but there's still a lot we don't understand about what it actually does to the brain – and how its benefits could be boosted. To investigate, the US Army has awarded researchers at Rice University and other institutions a grant to develop a portable skullcap tha...

UC Berkeley researchers successfully revived human heart tissue using a technique called isochoric supercooling.

The technique could eventually become viable for preserving donor tissue and organs.

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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-supercooling-advances-human-tissue.html

Supercooling advances human tissue preservation Researchers at UC Berkeley successfully revived human heart tissue after it had been preserved in a subfreezing, supercooled state for one to three days.

DeepMind and the Met Office have collaborated to develop an system capable of forecasting rainfall up to 2 hours ahead of time.☔

Usually, can make predictions several days into the future but struggle with shorter-term ones.

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The Kidney Project created a functional prototype of an implantable artificial kidney, combining a hemofilter and a bioreactor.

The device could provide patients complete mobility and better physiological outcomes than dialysis.

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First Artificial Kidney That Would Free People From Dialysis and Transplants Runs on Blood Pressure The first artificial kidney transplant that would free people from dialysis and transplants runs on blood pressure.

The Nreal Air is a pair of augmented reality glasses with a micro-OLED display, designed for watching videos on YouTube and other streaming apps.🕶📺

The goggles cast a 90Hz virtual display measuring up to 201 inches diagonally.

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/nreal-air-ar-specs-bring-tv-to-your-sunglasses/

Nreal Air sunglasses let you watch TV in AR The 90 Hz AR glasses weigh just 2.72 ounces, but they won't let you interact with surroundings.

Scientists developed winged microchips that spin through the air like a helicopter.🚁

They're dropped from buildings/planes to track the environment at different altitudes and dissolve in water - naturally disappearing over time.

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https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-winged-microchip-smallest-ever-human-made.html

Winged microchip is smallest-ever human-made flying structure Northwestern University engineers have added a new capability to electronic microchips: flight.