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Restoring Hearing With Beams of Light

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At left, the hair cells [light blue spiral] connect to the cochlear nerve cells [blue filaments and dots]. It occurred to me that stimulating the cochlear nerve with light instead of electricity could provide much more precise control, because light can be tightly focused even in the cochlea’s saline environment. Daniel Keppeler.

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. 99.99% of the infrastructure is already there connected to every building and running down every steet. Earth2Tech EcoTech, EcoTech [.]…