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Animals and plants help engineers light up cities, detect explosives, and predict natural disastors

{$inline_image}For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and tools for manipulating it—have opened up novel approaches potentially more powerful than mere imitation to solving Human Age problems. Spinach that can detect explosives Engineers have discovered how to transform spinach plants into environmental sensors that can alert us

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Sources: Amazon offers Marketplace merchants perks like prominent placements, more if they agree to sell their successful brands to Amazon, often at $10K/brand (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)

Jon Emont / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon offers Marketplace merchants perks like prominent placements, more if they agree to sell their successful brands to Amazon, often at $10K/brand  —  Program offers merchants prominent display and marketing support—at the cost of giving Amazon the right to buy their brand at a fixed price Sources: Amazon

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A new set of Pixel 4 leaked images and a series of renders show it will have a large forehead bezel for a variety of sensors and front-facing cameras (Andrew Liptak/The Verge)

Andrew Liptak / The Verge: A new set of Pixel 4 leaked images and a series of renders show it will have a large forehead bezel for a variety of sensors and front-facing cameras  —  A lot of space to cover up  —  A new set of leaked images of Google’s forthcoming Pixel 4 smartphone

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Building A Bigger Cloud Chamber

Cloud chambers are an exciting and highly visual science experiment. They’re fascinating to watch as you can see the passage of subatomic particles from radioactive decay with your very own eyes. Many elect to build small chambers based on thermoelectric Peltier elements, but [Cloudylabs] decided to do something on a grander scale. It’s a hefty

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Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform, has closed up 40% on its first day of trading on Thursday, after raising $167M in its IPO (Heather Landi/FierceHealthcare)

Heather Landi / FierceHealthcare: Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform, has closed up 40% on its first day of trading on Thursday, after raising $167M in its IPO  —  Healthcare software company Phreesia closed its first day of trading as a public company Thursday about 40% above its set price. Phreesia, a patient-intake software platform, has

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