China is gearing up to vacuum the Pacific Ocean floor near Japan’s Minamitori Island like it’s cleaning up after the world’s messiest party. Next summer, a Chinese state-owned enterprise plans to suck up 7,500 tons of manganese nodules in a 20-day deep-sea mining trial. These little potato-shaped lumps aren’t just ocean trash—they’re loaded with rare…
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Deep-Sea Drama: China Grabs, Japan Thinks, and Fish Pray
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糠 – Nuka – Rice bran
糠 (nuka) is the kanji for when life hands you rice, but you’re the part nobody asked for. Rice husks, people. That’s what we’re dealing with today. Not the fluffy, photogenic grains themselves, but their rejected siblings—the bitter, gritty underdogs of the grain world. The Kardashians have Kim, rice has 糠 (nuka). Welcome to the…
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Move Over, Spider-Man: Bagworms Are the New MVPs of Science
The world has officially entered its most absurdly brilliant chapter yet: bagworm silk is here to save us all. Yes, bagworm silk—the stuff these tiny insects spit out to build their cozy little cocoons—has been turned into an industrial powerhouse by none other than Kowa, a Japanese pharmaceutical company. Because apparently curing diseases wasn’t enough;…
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