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Hey Freethinkers,
“The inherent efficiency of the process is almost a thousand times better than plants.” Those are the words of Casey Handmer, the founder of Terraform Industries, whose team has built a machine called the Terraformer, which uses air, water, and sunlight to make cheap, synthetic natural gas. In the latest episode of Hard Reset, we take you inside the facility where a new age of artificial photosynthesis is taking root.
Also on deck: In the latest installment of Future Explored, we cover the researchers and scientists who are training an AI on DNA.
Onwards,
Damon
HARD RESET
Is this the last fuel we'll ever need?
The Terraformer is a machine that makes synthetic natural gas by recycling CO2 from the air. “We have to take what plants have done forever and improve upon that process so that there’s enough energy for humans to do what they need to do,” explains Terraform Industries founder Casey Handmer. In the latest episode of Hard Reset, we give you an up-close look at the Terraformer in action.
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IN THE KNOW
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Three years ago, Freethink reported on “a new pancreatic cancer vaccine based on mRNA tech [that] was shown to be safe and capable of triggering an immune response in a small trial.” That cancer vaccine was back in the news again last week, and its results continue to be impressive. Are we about to reach a turning point in the fight against this deadly form of cancer? Let’s hope so.
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FUTURE EXPLORED
Arc Institute’s new AI can read and write the code of life
The Arc Institute joined forces with researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, to create an AI model that could interpret and generate DNA sequences the same way that other AI models do text or images. The result? We might just be entering a new era in biology, one in which scientists aren’t just trying to decipher the code of life, but are also rewriting it from the ground up.
WORTH SHARING
The truth about banning “dangerous gain-of-function” research
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, a dangerous and unsupported conspiracy theory has gotten popular: that the virus didn’t infect humans due to natural spillover, but was created in a lab by dangerous, unethical virology research. Although this conspiracy theory has no evidence supporting it, it’s very politically popular, and is at the core of a new bill being introduced into the US Senate. Here’s what that means.
Damon Root is the managing editor at Freethink.
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