Rapamycin For Rover, H-Fueled Flight, Mind-Controlled Arms

Today, you’ll learn about how a drug that helps in human organ transplants might be able to extend the lives of man’s best friend, the airline industry's potential but difficult switch to hydrogen fuel, and how a high school student is transforming prosthetics with brain waves.

All dogs go to heaven.

• “New Drug May Help Dogs Live Longer” by Naomi Ruchim
  • https://www.krtv.com/news/u-s-and-the-world/new-drug-may-help-dogs-live-longer
• “A Drug Discovered on Easter Island May Help Dogs Live up to Three Years Longer” by Tod Perry
  • https://www.upworthy.com/a-drug-discovered-on-easter-island-may-help-dogs-live-up-to-three-years-longer?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2
• “Rapamycin’s Secrets Unearthed” by Bethany Halford
  • https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i29/Rapamycins-Secrets-Unearthed.html

Planes, planes, planes.

• “The epic attempts to power planes with hydrogen” by Mark Piesing
  • bbc.com/future/article/20220316-the-epic-attempts-to-power-planes-with-hydrogen
• “How close are hydrogen planes, really?” By Sabri Ben-Achour
  • https://www.marketplace.org/2021/10/28/how-close-are-hydrogen-planes-really/
• “Hydrogen Explained” By US Energy Information Administration
  • https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydrogen/use-of-hydrogen.php

Mind over matter.

• “This High Schooler Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm” by Margaret Osborne
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-schooler-invented-a-low-cost-mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm-180979984/
• “High Schooler Invents Affordable, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm” by Adrianna Nine
  • https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/335384-high-schooler-invents-affordable-mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm
• “Creating a Working Brain-Controlled Transhumeral Prosthetic Arm (Make It Move)” by Benjamin Choi
  • https://www.instructables.com/Creating-a-Working-Brain-Controlled-Transhumeral-P/

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