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The thing in your kitchen most likely to kill you
Between 2011 and 2022, the deadliest kitchen appliances in the US were ovens and ranges; taking lives by causing fires and leaking carbon monoxide. These kinds of sudden, catastrophic fatalities are thankfully rare. But the kitchen dangers that cause the most casualties may actually be less immediat..
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The invisible networks shaping your everyday life
The basic infrastructure that controls plumbing, electricity and more is vital to your individual agency, says engineering professor Deb Chachra. She offers a crash course on how these systems connect to shape our lives — and suggests some key improvements for providing long-term, sustainable ener..
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The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers
In 2022, physicist Tammy Ma and the team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a scientific breakthrough decades in the making: fusion ignition, or the combining of two atoms to generate more energy out of a reaction than was put in — recreating on Earth the same process that powers t..
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The missing piece of the clean energy transition
The clean energy transition has a major blind spot, says energy equity expert Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha: it ignores millions of people without access to energy. Highlighting grassroots women's organizations leading the charge towards universal access, she makes a powerful call to prioritize gender..
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E-skins and e-tattoos: Your cybernetic future
Smartwatches are powerful computers, but too imprecise for medical use; doctors still need to spend valuable time taking measurements with specialized equipment. Biomechnical engineer Nanshu Lu explains why rigid electronics just don’t work well with our soft, pliable skin–and how her flexible, ..
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