Artist’s impression of an EGS electric power plant. Cold water is pumped down the left well, heated in the hot rock fractures of the reservoir, then returned to the surface by the production wells to supply the power plant (Image: DOE)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES
NEW IDEAS
- A potential super wheat that actually thrives in salty soils
- A new source of vitamin D from gene-edited tomatoes
- Plucking drinking water from desert air with a low cost gel film
- New cost-effective method for carbon capture from coal-fired power plants in particular
- Could a new bio-glue mean an end to surgical sutures and staples?
- Using a reusable photocatalyst and sunlight to extract hydrogen gas at significantly less expense
- A novel preclinical drug that could have the potential to combat depression, brain injury and diseases that impair cognition
- A low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors using WiFi
- A new haptics method for computers to achieve that true texture
- Could gene editing actually alter the social behavior of animals?
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