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Home baking frenzy inspires tissue scaffold for growing human muscle

Irish soda bread appears to work as a scaffold for growing muscle and bone cells, and could eventually help in producing factory-grown meat Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263638-home-baking-frenzy-inspires-tissue-scaffold-for-growing-human-muscle/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Home baking frenzy inspires tissue scaffold for growing muscle

Irish soda bread appears to work as a scaffold for growing muscle and bone cells from mice, and could eventually help in producing factory-grown meat Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263638-home-baking-frenzy-inspires-tissue-scaffold-for-growing-muscle/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

A Stranger Crowdsourced $1,700 For a Mistreated Fast-Food Worker

Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: At a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia, an angry customer in the drive-through lane threw his drink at the pregnant fast-food worker who had served him. “She was crying and covered in ice and soda and syrup…” remembers another driver in the next car parked in the line. “[C]overed in syrup all over her shoes, pants, and shirt.”…

Searching for habitable exoplanets? Look for phosphorus

Scientists develop a new way to search for potentially habitable exoplanets by measuring the amount of phosphorus in their stars. Such planets should also have abundant phosphorus – necessary for life on Earth – increasing the chances for life. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/phosphorus-in-stars-and-biomarker-habitable-exoplanets…

15 Organic Homemade Plant Food For Your Homestead

You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive soil fertilizers. There are dozens of homemade plant food recipes and ingredients you can use to boost plant growth and improve soil health. RELATED: Homemade Fertilizer from Compost 15 Simple, Inexpensive Homemade Plant Food Recipes and Ingredients 1. Baking Soda-Ammonia Plant Food Need a quick…Continue Reading
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Mutant Enzyme Could Vastly Improve Recycling of Plastic Bottles

sciencehabit writes: Recycling isn’t as guilt-free as it seems. Only about 30% of the plastic that goes into soda bottles gets turned into new plastic, and it often ends up as a lower strength version. Now, researchers report they’ve engineered an enzyme that can convert 90% of that same plastic back to its pristine starting materials. Work is underway to scale…

The Gig Workers For Target’s Delivery App Hate Their Algorithmically-Determined Pay

In 2017 Target bought a same-day home-delivery company called Shipt for $550 million. Shipt now services half of Target’s stores, reports Motherboard, and employs more than 100,000 gig workers. Unfortunately, they’re working for a company that “has a track record of censoring and retaliating against workers for asking basic questions about their working conditions or expressing dissent,” reports Motherboard. For example,…

Google Experimented on Its Own Employees To Get Them To Eat Healthier

This week Medium’s tech blog OneZero published a 4,500-word look at Google’s “methodical, iterative” and massive “living experiment” on its own employees to see if they can nudge them into making healthier choices when they eat:
The campaign isn’t changing just the food itself, but how it’s presented. Google’s tactics include limiting portion sizes for meat and desserts and redesigning its premises…