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UCLA professor Yang Yang's lab chock-full of coffee drinkers spent several years searching for a stability-enhancing additive to turn famously unstable perovskite PV cells into a useful product. Then, on a lark, Yang's graduate student Rui Wang suggested they try adding caffeine to the mix. To the team's surprise, caffeine produced longer lasting and more powerful solar cells.

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Scientists from Cornell University have successfully constructed DNA-based machines with incredibly life-like capabilities. These human-engineered organic machines are capable of locomotion, consuming resources for energy, growing and decaying, and evolving. Eventually they die.

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It might be slow now, but that can only improve...

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“LA république n’a pas besoin de savants ni de chimistes.”

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Google's Compute Engine has calculated the most digits of Pi ever, setting a new world record: 31.4 trillion digits. And a musician creates a million hours song from Pi.

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