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Researchers powered a computer chip for a year using blue-green algae
Scientists revived viruses frozen for 48,500 years, but only studied ones that infect amoebae
Tokyo Station converts commuter footsteps into electricity with piezoelectric floor tiles
Bacteria in rice paddies generate electricity while crops grow undisturbed
Jellyfish glow protein becomes tiny solar cell that runs on UV light
Engineers use robotic submarines to inspect the hidden river supplying half of New York's water
In 1996, astronauts paid out 19.7 kilometres of cable from the shuttle Columbia to test…
Humpbacks sang louder in Monterey Canyon as blue whales went silent after heat wave
US Air Force once scattered 480 million copper needles in orbit as a radio experiment
In 1965, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory launched LES-1, which stopped transmitting two years…
