A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
Developers are on track to add 33 gigawatts of solar power in the U.S. this year, accounting for about half of the total new electricity generating capacity planned for the country in 2025, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
Source: Solar may account for half of new US electricity added this year, EIA says
Very encouraging.
Meningitis can be quickly spotted in babies with “great accuracy” thanks to a new non-invasive test that negates the need for a spinal tap.
Very cool.
Thoughts are translated into speech in real time—with a passcode to prevent broadcasting private musings.
Source: New Brain Implant Decodes ‘Inner Monologue’ of People With Paralysis
This could be such a game changer for some people. Wow.
No matter whether it’s crushed or cubed, ice eventually melts into a puddle — but an alternative called jelly ice doesn’t.
Source: Reusable ‘Jelly Ice’ Keeps Things Cold — Without Meltwater
Fascinating. Apparently has positive health implications.
Exclusive: Study expected to confirm there are enough suitable sites to support bird of prey’s return
Source: Golden eagles poised for reintroduction in England
Very cool.
The new X-WING facility is a new approach to helping homeless residents get off the street and into somewhere safe and cool.
Neat idea.
Recurring kidney stones can be an agonizing, debilitating problem, particularly if they can’t be treated by orally-administered medication. There may be new hope on the horizon, however, in the form of a tiny magnetically-steerable stone-dissolving “robot.”
Source: Wiggling magnetic micro-robot goes after kidney stones
Less painful is good. 
Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
Source: AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA
Exciting.
Without teen workers stepping up, owner of Hudson, Wisconsin’s Urban Olive & Vine says he’d no longer have a restaurant.
Source: Teen workers save restaurant as owner spends months in hospital
Wow.
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, along with their colleagues, engineered a new molecule that appears promising as an effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side effects than other molecules currently being tested, according to a new study published in the journal PNAS.
Source: Novel protein therapy shows promise as first-ever antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning
Pretty impressive.