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Pesky Packing Peanuts Find New Purpose As Powerful Batteries

Packing peanuts may protect your fragile shipments, but they can damage a fragile environment. Now, scientists have found a way to crush them, bake them and recycle them into fast-charging, long-lasting batteries.

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Science Discovers Sweetgrass is Natural Mosquito Repellant, Native Americans Knew All Along

Modern science discovers what Native Americans have known for centuries, a natural mosquito repellent you can grow in your own garden.

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Stanford Engineers Create Artificial "Skin" to Allow Prosthetics to Feel

Stanford engineers have created a plastic "skin" that can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver this sense of touch.

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Toxic Algae Could Power "Super Batteries" of Tomorrow

It's all about perspective: alga blooms that choke oxygen out of lakes could be grown and harvested to build parts for a new generation of super battery.

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College Student's Device Can Turn Polluted Air into Printer Ink

This device doesn't just suck soot out of the air-it repurposes the stuff as printer toner.

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Gates Foundation Funds Bold Ideas Including Dirt-Charged Cell Phones and Human Waste Fertilizer

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday announced 88 new winners of $100,000 grants to support innovative research that has the potential to dramatically improve lives in some of the world's poorest countries. The funding, made possible through the Grand Challenges Exploration program, will enable researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.

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Wearable Sweat Sensor Gives Instant Health Profile Without Lab Work

A small sweat sensor can instantly detect and diagnose dehydration, muscle fatigue, stress and other conditions that once took hours of blood work in a lab.

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New York Scientists Unveil 'Invisibility Cloak' to Rival Harry Potter's

Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, scientists at the University of Rochester have recently developed a simple and inexpensive lens device that hides objects from view. With the basic goal of taking light and have it pass around something as if it isn't there, the researchers have created the first simple device that can do three-dimensional, continuously multidirectional cloaking.