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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES
NEW IDEAS
- Plasma-produced gas may activate plant immunity against wide-spread diseases
- Could CRISPR technology replace the need for insecticides and only suppress the target species population?
- Swarms of microrobots injected into the body could unblock internal medical devices and avoid further surgery
- Bioengineering better photosynthesis increases yields in food crops for the first time ever
- Protecting wood from fire with a new invisible coating
- Floating ‘artificial leaves’ can generate clean fuels from sunlight and water and could operate on a large scale at sea
- A tiny molecule which can enter a solid tumor may allow for more accessible and effective cancer immunotherapies
- Is open science facing headwinds?
- A new paradigm to achieve privacy-preserving imaging by building a fundamentally new type of imager designed by AI
- The first hydrogel-based cartilage substitute that is even stronger and more durable than the real thing
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