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World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 (mainichi.jp)

Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds (www.livescience.com)

Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will (phys.org)

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Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city | California (www.theguardian.com)

Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint (www.businessinsider.com)

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Toyota Claims Solid-State Battery Has 745 Mile Range, 10 Minute Charging Time (cleantechnica.com)

Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism (fortune.com)

Gen Zers are still in the early stages of their careers and personal finance journeys, but their financial habits are already proving to be radically different from those of their predecessors. With heightened levels of anxiety about the future grounded in very real socioeconomic and environmental issues, Gen Zers are...

Beyond Ozempic: brand-new obesity drugs will be cheaper and more effective (www.nature.com)

Astronomers discover new link between dark matter and 'clumpiness' of the universe (www.artsci.utoronto.ca)

'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. (www.npr.org)

Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the sale of cultivated chicken grown directly from animal cells in the United States. The product is produced by GOOD Meat, a division of Eat Just, Inc. and is an alternative to traditional meat derived from cells in a lab. The company has stated that this is a...

Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt (www.theguardian.com)

53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids (www.cnbc.com)

[ AI ] A fully AI-powered singing, dancing, trash-talking Anime Girl is now one of the most popular and richest streamers in the world (www.bloomberg.com)

Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance (www.theguardian.com)

According to the article, scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, without the need for eggs or sperm. These embryo-like structures resemble those in the earliest stages of human development, but they do not have a beating heart or a brain. They are not considered human embryos, but rather embryo models....

Scientists are growing animals in artificial wombs. Humans might be next. (www.freethink.com)

The article talks about the possibility of creating artificial wombs capable of supporting humans across the full nine months of development. It also mentions that even if scientists are able to overcome the scientific hurdles and create artificial wombs capable of supporting humans across the full nine months of development,...

Lung cancer drug slashes patients’ risk of death by 51% (www.freethink.com)

Osimertinib is an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that binds to certain mutant forms of EGFR (T790M, L858R, and exon 19 deletion) that predominate in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumours following treatment with first-line EGFR-TKIs². It exhibits a nine-fold greater affinity for...

Will ChatGPT destroy everything? (www.youtube.com)

The rise of AI and its integration with the attention-driven internet has led to a concerning trend where feelings matter more than facts. The author, once optimistic about YouTube's potential for spreading good ideas, now realizes that the internet's focus on triggering emotions for attention has overshadowed the importance of...

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