The world needs lithium at higher rates than ever before. But our current methods of getting it are breaking the planet.
The answer to the lithium crisis might just be a high-tech, “solar-powered seesaw” extractor.
According to the researchers at Zhejiang University in China, this new device maximizes lithium yield from seawater while simultaneously desalinating water.
How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing Teague, a Seattle-based design and innovation firm that advises space companies such as Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Voyager Technologies on how to lay out their orbital outposts.
Mike Mahoney, Teague’s senior director of space and defense programs, says the zero-gravity environment is the most interesting element to consider in space station design.
“You can’t put things on surfaces, right? You’re not going to have tables, necessarily, unless you can attach things to them, and they could be on any surface,” he told GeekWire. “So, directionality is a big factor. And knowing that opens up new opportunities. … You could have, let’s say, two scientists working in different orientations in the same area.”
NewLimit just announced something that could be a major step toward real anti-aging medicine:
their first therapy is designed to regenerate the liver potentially making it 10–20 years younger.
Human trials are still ahead, but they’re already working on similar approaches for the immune system and vascular system.
Cartilage. Teeth. Liver.
Regeneration is moving from science fiction to clinical reality.
And it raises a bigger question:
medicine today often requires lifelong dosing like GLP-1 weight loss drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy).
What if the future is different?
What if one shot could actually repair the system instead of managing it forever?
There may be more to Musk’s decision to decide to build a city on the moon before building one on Mars than he’s telling us. Watch to find out.
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Chiari malformation (CM) involves a broad disease spectrum, where rare complex CM cases can be associated with craniocervical junction (CVJ) instability and require occipitocervical fusion. However, the natural progression of CVJ alignment in the general CM type I and 1.5 populations treated with posterior fossa decompression (PFD) remains insufficiently characterized. The authors aimed to compare CVJ alignment changes in patients who underwent PFD versus patients with CM who did not undergo surgery.
The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study at their institution of all patients diagnosed with CM I and 1.5 from 2000 to early 2023. Demographic, clinical, and surgical data were collected, along with preoperative and postoperative MRI measurements, including tonsillar herniation, brainstem descent, clivoaxial angle (CXA), and condylar-C2 sagittal vertical alignment (C-C2SVA).
A total of 241 patients were included, with 201 undergoing PFD and 40 managed conservatively (controls). No significant differences were observed between groups in age at diagnosis, sex, or genetic diagnoses. In the PFD group, 55% underwent duraplasty and 45% underwent bone-only decompression. Baseline craniocervical alignment measurements showed a lower CXA in the PFD group (144.4° ± 13.4°) compared to controls (148.5° ± 14.2°) (p = 0.04) but no difference in C-C2SVA. Changes over time showed a small but significant decrease in CXA at < 1 year after surgery in the PFD group (−2.7°) compared to controls (−2.0°) (p = 0.008), but no differences were noted at 1–2 years. No differences in C-C2SVA were observed over time in either group.
From the article:
…in copper, the transition was extremely fast, taking about 26 attoseconds.
In the layered materials TiSe₂ and TiTe₂, the same process slowed to between 140 and 175 attoseconds. In CuTe, with its chain-like structure, the transition exceeded 200 attoseconds. These findings show that the atomic scale shape of a material strongly affects how quickly a quantum event unfolds, with lower symmetry structures leading to longer transition times.
Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to measure how long ultrafast quantum events actually last, without relying on any external clock. By tracking subtle changes in electrons as they absorb light and escape a material, researchers discovered that these transitions are not instantaneous and that their duration depends strongly on the atomic structure of the material involved.
Blood tests revealed that the beverage elicited an immune response, according to preliminary research. But far more safety and efficacy testing would be needed before this vaccine could become available
We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, and even how heavy our bodies seem. Scientists now believe humans may have more than 20 distinct senses working at once. Everyday illusions and experiences reveal just how surprisingly complex perception really is.
