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  • MIT researchers have created glowing plants, which could eventually be used to light rooms or streets without electricity
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    MIT scientists borrow from fireflies to make glowing plants
    The humble house plant could soon start earning its keep by lighting up a room, if new research from MIT pans out. Engineers have hacked watercress plants to make them glow for a few hours at a time, and while it’s not very bright yet, the plan is to develop plants that you could read by.
  • Transhumanism is moving inexorably into the mainstream as technological advances accelerate
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    Welcome to the era of transhumanism
    With Elon Musk advocating the need for humans to merge with machines and a transhumanist politician running for Governor in California, an intellectual movement that sat on the fringes throughout the 20th century is poised to hit the mainstream.
  • Biohacking group Science for the Masses has been experimenting with night vision eye drops (Photo: Science for the Masses)
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    Biohackers develop night vision eye drops to see in the dark
    A biohacking group in California has managed to develop eye drops that temporarily give a human being powerful night vision. The chemicals used are still very much at the experimental stage – this isn't something you'd want to try at home just yet – but the first trial has been very successful.