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Restoring Hearing With Beams of Light

Cars That Think

At left, the hair cells [light blue spiral] connect to the cochlear nerve cells [blue filaments and dots]. We next trained the gerbils to respond to an auditory stimulus, teaching them to avoid a certain area when they heard a tone. The deaf animals responded to this light stimulation just as they had to the auditory stimulus.

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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.