Engineers try to squeeze energy from discarded fruit using microbial fuel cells
When Doc Brown fed his DeLorean food scraps in Back to the Future as fuel, it seemed like crazy science fiction.
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When Doc Brown fed his DeLorean food scraps in Back to the Future as fuel, it seemed like crazy science fiction.
May 3, 2023
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Business
Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to "another company," according to the non-profit news organization, in an ongoing spat between Musk and media groups since his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last ...
May 3, 2023
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New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which for 14 years has provided real-time information on service outages, delays and other important transit updates for its 1.3 million Twitter followers, will no longer ...
Apr 28, 2023
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A California bill that aims to ease newspapers' internet-age woes by making Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook pay for the online articles their users access through their platforms advanced out of its first committee ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at MIT say they have created a new material that will pave the way to faster charging batteries.
Energy & Green Tech
Organic solar cells have a photoactive layer that is made from polymers and small molecules. The cells are very thin, can be flexible, and are easy to make. However, the efficiency of these cells is still much below that ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Most of the clothing and gadgets you buy in stores today were once in shipping containers, sailing across the ocean. Ships carry over 80% of the world's traded goods. But they have a problem—the majority of them burn heavy ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Twitter's blue ticks were reinstated on some media, celebrity, and other high profile accounts Saturday—a move protested by many of the recipients.
Apr 23, 2023
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Our modern rechargeable batteries, such as lithium-ion batteries, are anything but sustainable. One alternative is organic batteries with redox-organic electrode materials (OEMs), which can be synthesized from natural "green" ...
Apr 21, 2023
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As public concern about the ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence keeps growing, it might seem like it's time to slow down. But inside tech companies themselves, the sentiment is quite the opposite. As ...
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In biology, an organism is any living system (such as animal, plant, fungus, or micro-organism). In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole. An organism may either be unicellular (single-celled) or be composed of, as in humans, many billions of cells grouped into specialized tissues and organs. The term multicellular (many-celled) describes any organism made up of more than one cell.
The terms "organism" (Greek ὀργανισμός - organismos, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον - organon "organ, instrument, tool") first appeared in the English language in 1701 and took on its current definition by 1834 (Oxford English Dictionary).
Scientific classification in biology considers organisms synonymous with life on Earth. Based on cell type, organisms may be divided into the prokaryotic and eukaryotic groups. The prokaryotes represent two separate domains, the Bacteria and Archaea. Eukaryotic organisms, with a membrane-bounded cell nucleus, also contain organelles, namely mitochondria and (in plants) plastids, generally considered to be derived from endosymbiotic bacteria. Fungi, animals and plants are examples of species that are eukaryotes.
More recently a clade, Neomura, has been proposed, which groups together the Archaea and Eukarya. Neomura is thought to have evolved from Bacteria, more specifically from Actinobacteria.
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