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Teresa Carey is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and producer whose sea-going adventures — from solo ocean voyages to scientific expeditions — spark wonder and champion conservation through the power of story.

Neuroscience

Researchers can predict rats’ behavior by reading their brains

A team at the University of Oregon have decoded the patterns of brain activity to predict basic actions in mice.

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Drugs

Drug that cleans up cholesterol may reduce post stroke dementia

Researchers look to an FDA-approved drug ingredient that can "scoop-up" and store cholesterol and possibly stave off post stroke dementia.

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Biology

Brain implant translates thought to text

A paralyzed man used a brain-computer interface to send the first "direct-thought tweet."

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Healthcare

Scientists discover possible precursor to a Parkinson’s drug

Scientists have optimized a peptide known to prevent the “protein misfolding,” that causes Parkinson’s disease. This could be a precourser to a disease treatment.

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Brain

Here is how your brain understands one voice in a crowd

Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have discovered fresh insight into how the brain might deliberately hear one speaker while shutting out or ignoring another.

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Clean Energy

These solar panels are thinner than a piece of paper

Stanford University researchers announced they had achieved record efficiencies in a promising class of new materials for solar cells — which can be thinner than a piece of paper.

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Outer Space

Startup will send prized artifacts to the International Space Station

Uplift Aerospace will transport valuable goods to the ISS and house them in their Constellation Vault starting this year.

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Food

Smart food packaging keeps food fresh and reduces waste

A new "smart" type of food packaging promises to eliminate food poisoning by emitting chemicals that reduce harmful bacteria like E.coli, Salmonella, and Listeria, allowing meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables to last longer.

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Clean Energy

This battery may solve renewables’ energy storage problem

Flow batteries are a type of liquid battery that has the potential for large-scale, long-term energy storage. Researchers have found a new material for flow batteries and it looks a lot like molasses.

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Climate Crisis

Batteries of the future could be made from trees

To improve battery life and safety, while maintaining ionic conductivity, researchers aim to replace the liquids commonly used in batteries with a solid material made from trees.

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