Aditya Raghunandan won first place at the Steadman Family Postdoctoral Associate Prize with work (partly) inspired by Eddie Murphy. He compares his work on how the brain cleanses itself of waste to how “Eddie Murphy famously eludes a police stakeout by sticking bananas up the tailpipe of a patrol car, causing the engine to stall”. Through particle tracking, the brain’s “tailpipe” – cervical lymph vessels in the neck – was shown to lose its flexibility with age, mimicking the “banana up a tailpipe” blockage for the brain’s removal of waste. Read full article here
Technology
The First Solar-Powered Car Comes at a Hot Price
The Lightyear O is a revolutionary electric car powered by the sun. Developed by a Dutch startup, the four-door sedan has over 50 square feet of solar panels on its roof and hood, generating up to 43 miles of energy a day. With production now underway in Finland, the car does come with a hefty price tag at $262,000, but the company hopes to introduce a more affordable version, the Lightyear 2, by 2025. Read full article here
Merv
January 27, 2023
