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These new bioplastic straws made using potato starch and lignin are strong in water but still biodegrade.

This starchy bioplastic could make soggy paper straws a thing of the past

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Categories Technology
Sweet potatoes

A more healthful, gluten-free flour made from sweet potatoes

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Categories Health
A porous hydrogel inspired by loofah sponges absorbs polluted water at room temperature and then rapidly releases purified water when heated.

Loofah-inspired, sun-driven gel could purify all the water you’ll need in a day

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Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Plastic stadium seating chairs

Want a stronger biodegradable plastic? Add a ‘pinch’ of cream of tartar

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Categories Technology
Water samples for PFAS analysis. Credit: Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy

Farewell to ‘forever’ – Destroying PFAS by grinding it up with a new additive

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Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health
Locust on a leaf

Preventing vehicle crashes by learning from insects

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Categories Uncategorized
Chemical “micromotors,” as illustrated here, can effectively deliver insulin in rats without an injection.

Another step toward an insulin tablet

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Categories Health

Beer hops compounds could help protect against Alzheimer’s disease

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Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
This window film (held in fingers at top left) keeps rooms bright and cool by allowing visible light to pass in while reflecting invisible infrared and ultraviolet sunlight and radiating heat into outer space.

AC alternative: Clear window coating cools buildings without using energy

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Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

AI helps designs microneedle patches that restore hair

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Categories Health, Technology
An underwater movement sensor attached to a motorized swimming doll’s knee alerts a smartphone app when the doll stops kicking, simulating a swimmer in distress.

Underwater movement sensor alerts when a swimmer might be drowning

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Categories Health, Technology
Wood ink printed as a flat rectangle is programmed to form a complex shape after drying and solidifying. (Ruler is marked in centimeters.)

Your next wooden chair could arrive flat, then dry into a 3D shape

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Categories Technology
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