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‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State | Drugs News
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‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State | Drugs News

Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in...

Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff
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Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last week, Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp—unveiled a new “personal artificial intelligence (AI).” Powered by...

Novel membrane design mimics protein channels for efficient energy harvesting
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Novel membrane design mimics protein channels for efficient energy harvesting

Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c18730 A research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess...

Samsung protégé misses an opportunity by not going for energy harvesting when it comes to electronic shelf labels
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Samsung protégé misses an opportunity by not going for energy harvesting when it comes to electronic shelf labels

Samsung subsidiary Solum showcases several ‘bar’ displays designed for nightlife and high-end retail spaces at ISE 2025 A network display interface (NDI) for...

Autonomous robotics, sensors and advanced computing can now help with harvesting plant data
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Autonomous robotics, sensors and advanced computing can now help with harvesting plant data

ORNL scientists developed an autonomous field data-gathering platform to monitor and sample soils and transfer real-time data back to the lab. From left,...

Advanced aerogel enhances autonomous atmospheric water harvesting
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Advanced aerogel enhances autonomous atmospheric water harvesting

Credit: National University of Singapore The world is on the brink of a freshwater crisis. Estimations indicate that by 2025, half of the...