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Through WastED, Food Scraps Are Turned into Gourmet Meals. As a society, there are many food parts that go to waste even though they are fully edible—in an attempt to raise awareness on wasted food, Blue Hill opened up a ...
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Picture a parent roaming the supermarket aisles in 2050, scanning labels carefully for the all-important words “genetically modified ingredients”—to make sure everything that goes into the shopping cart is guaranteed to be GMO. “They won’t accept any of that dangerous ...
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A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery. Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, ...
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TOWARD the end of the Second World War, researchers at the University of Minnesota began a legendary experiment on the psychology and physiology of human starvation — and, thus, on hunger. The subjects were 36 conscientious objectors, some lean, some ...
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Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. The underlings in this equation have little control; overwork cascades from the top of the ...
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Imagine we could develop a precise drug that amplifies people’s aversion to harming others; on this drug you won’t hurt a fly, everyone taking it becomes like Buddhist monks. Who should take this drug? Only convicted criminals—people who have committed ...
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New nutritional therapies are aimed at boosting the variety of microorganisms that live in your GI tract, says neuroendocrinologist Mark Heiman. Mark Heiman recently picked up a watermelon radish at his local farmer’s market in New Orleans and immediately had ...
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Excess weight harms health in many ways. It increases the risk of developing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, and some cancers, to name just a few, and reduces the life span. Treating obesity and obesity-related conditions costs billions ...
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DxN VERIS from Beckman Coulter, offers laboratory managers a veritable one-stop shop for molecular diagnostics. DxN VERIS integratessample introduction, nucleic acid extraction, reaction setup, real-time PCR amplification and detection, and results interpretation into one system which saves on space, time ...