A Robot Fish That Can Attract Microplastics in the Water

Come along with us to figure out how heating up testicles could be an effective male contraceptive, how ultrasounds might help us cure Type 2 diabetes, and how a robotic fish might soon clean our oceans.

Heating up testes isn’t what you think.

• “Heating Up Testicles Could Solve a Major Male Contraceptive Issue” by Jeffrey Mo
  • https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/heating-up-testicles
• “Magnetic Testis Targeting and Magnetic Hyperthermia for Noninvasive, Controllable Male Contraception via Intravenous Administration” by Weihua Ding, et al.
  • https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02181

Type 2 diabetes potential cure.

• “Diabetes Successfully Treated Using Ultrasound in Preclinical Study” by Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/medical/focused-ultrasound-prevents-reverses-diabetes-ge-yale/
• “Treating Diabetes Without Drugs? Novel Non-Pharmacological Treatments on the Horizon” by Jane E. Dee
  • https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/treating-diabetes-without-drugs-novel-non-pharmacologic-treatments-on-the-horizon/
• “Ultrasound: The Future of Diabetes Treatment?” by Tim Newman
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325160

Robotic fish are the future.

• “Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas” by Sofia Quaglia
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/22/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas
• “Robust, Healable, Self-Locomotive Integrated Robots Enabled by Noncovalent Assembled Gradient Nanostructure” by Yuyan Wang, Gehong Su, Jin Li, Quanquan Guo, Yinggang Miao, and Xinxing Zhang
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/22/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas#:~:text=is%20described%20in-,a%20research%20paper,-in%20the%20journal

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