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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Rice TV Screen, Satellite Warfare, Unraveled DNA
Do you want to know about a new environmentally friendly way to make TV Screens, what future space warfare might look like, and how we have finally completely unraveled the human genome?
August 18, 2022
Episode show notes:
Rice is more than food. It’s TV.
- World’s First LED Lights Developed from Rice Husks by Hiroshima University
- Orange–Red Si Quantum Dot LEDs from Recycled Rice Husks by Shiho Terada, et al.
- What is Quantum Dot Display Technology? by Dave Haynes
- Exploring the Environmental Impact of Quantum Dots by Rachel Berkowitz
Space weapons.
- Analysts Warn Anti-Satellite Weapons Have Evolved Beyond Missiles by Wired
- Russia Conducts Destructive Anti-Satellite Missile Test by Anthony Blinken
- UK Presses UN on Treaty Over Space Weapons by Amanda Miller
- Satellite Debris Forces Space Station Crew to Take Shelter; U.S. Blames "Reckless" Russian Missile Test by William Harwood
- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) by Atomic Heritage Foundation
100% Genome.
- Complete Human Genome Sequenced for First Time In Major Breakthrough by Becky Ferreira
- The Complete Sequence of a Human Genome by Sergey Nurk, et al.
- What is the Human Genome Project by The National Human Genome Research Institute
- A Brief Guide to Genomics by The National Human Genome Research Institute
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