Appalachian mining country seems an unlikely place to find a potential breakthrough in renewable energy, but samples of mine tailings in West Virginia have turned up plenty of lithium contained inside fool’s gold. The team of scientists behind the discovery described it as “previously unheard of” and they hope that lithium extracted this way could […]

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In an interview with the Brisbane Times, an Australian ophthalmologist and biotech entrepreneur lays out his vision for a world in which curing blindness in millions of people worldwide is easy and can be done with a bit of cell replication and a 3D printer. Professor Gerard Sutton is co-founder of Bienco, which he claims […]

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An ancient trove of literary records, the kind that simply does not come about in Western archeology, was found in an old well in central China. Dating back to the year 220 CE, 10,000 bamboo slats covered in Chinese characters reveal a wealth of information about how a nearby town was governed during the Three […]

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