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How a Lithium-Ion Battery Stores Energy, and Why It Slowly Wears Out
Your phone, your laptop and most electric cars run on the same basic idea: lithium atoms shuffling back and forth between two…
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How Quantum Computers Use Superposition to Solve Problems Classical Computers Can’t
A classical computer bit is either a 0 or a 1, always, no ambiguity. A qubit, the basic unit of a quantum…
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How mRNA Vaccines Actually Teach Your Cells to Build Immunity
Traditional vaccines work by showing your immune system a weakened or dead version of a pathogen, or a piece of one, and…
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How CRISPR Actually Cuts and Edits a Gene
CRISPR gets described in headlines as everything from a cure for genetic disease to a tool for designer babies, and most of…