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    Scientists are working on a pill that mimics the effects of exercise

    Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise. Researchers have developed a blueprint of the molecular reactions the human body undergoes during exercise. Why is ...
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    Plastic-eating worms may offer solution to mounting waste

    Consider the plastic foam cup. Every year, Americans throw away 2.5 billion of them. And yet, that waste is just a fraction of the 33 million tons of plastic Americans discard every year. Less than 10 percent of that total ...
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    Sou Fujimoto challenges perceptions of what could be considered architecture

    Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto uses potato chips and staples to comment on the notion of “found architecture”. The 21st century brings with it further advancements in technology and even greater access to information, which has begun to blur the prescribed ...
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    New wearable technology can sense appliance use, help track carbon footprint

    In today’s smart home, technologies can track how much energy a particular appliance like a refrigerator or television or hair dryer is gobbling up. What they don’t typically show is which person in the house actually flicked the switch. A ...
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    This Wooden House Combines Art and Abstract Room Shapes

    Architect Andra Matin designed this incredible wooden house using unique triangular shapes and a wall-free lower level. The entire structure incorporates bold open concepts with various sectioned-off bedrooms and out-of-house bathroom facilities. The ground level features bedrooms, bathrooms, a library ...
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    Artist Uses Recycled Off-Cuts Of Wood To Create An Architectural Sculpture

    Russian artist, Nikolay Polissky, has recently completed the SELPO Pavilion, located in Nikola-Lenivets Park, which contains 28 permanent art works. About the pavilion SELPO (acronym for The Rural Consumer Association in Russian) is a sculpture which wraps around a soviet ...
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    Technology 2020: Personal Worlds

    Technology 2020: Personal Worlds is the second report in a series from The Futures Company which seeks to explore how digital technology will remake our world over the next decade. In the first, main, report in the series, we outlined ...
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    3-D Printing Breaks the Glass Barrier

    The palette of materials that can be used as 3-D printing “ink” is quickly growing in diversity, but one ubiquitous material has, until now, been absent: transparent glass. It’s already possible to use tiny granules of glass in a powder ...
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    Yogi-Athlete Workouts

    ‘Joga’ yoga by Jana Webb is designed to tailor movements of the practice to jocks. While many styles of yoga are designed to have students hold poses, this can cause overstretching in the muscles that results in an imbalance of ...