Tech: Beer yeast for recycling e-waste

May 14—This week, waste-recycling beer yeast, a high-altitude balloon that will help astrophysicists search for antimatter's source, and autonomous logging machines designed to make forestry safer. All that and more below! -Ben Guarino, Associate Editor, Technology

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After Brewing Beer, Yeast Can Help Recycle Metals from E-waste This beer-making by-product could offer a sustainable way to isolate metals for recycling electronic waste Riis Williams, intern writer

Meet HELIX, the High-Altitude Balloon That May Solve a Deep Cosmic Mystery Every now and then, tiny particles of antimatter strike Earth from cosmic parts unknown. A new balloon-borne experiment launching this spring may at last find their source Rachel Berkowitz

Nuclear Weapons at Any Price? Congress Should Say No Costs are skyrocketing to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Instead of turning a blind eye, Congress should demand fiscal oversight and make hard decisions balancing costs with deterrence Sharon K. Weiner, expert writer

The Internet Is Full of Deepfakes, and the Sky Is Full of Trash Deepfake images, a delayed spaceflight, the troubles with space junk and a blast from our past for your Monday review of science news. Rachel Feltman

An Autonomous Logging Machine Could Make Forestry Safer Forestry is deadly. Could automating some logging tasks help? Susan Cosier

AI Therapy Bots Have Risks and Benefits and More Risks Therapy chatbots are increasingly popular and may benefit some people, but it's dangerous to trust AI during a mental health crisis Elizabeth Svoboda; OpenMind Magazine

Medical 'Digital Twins' Will Lead the Way to Personalized Medicine We face a moment of opportunity—and competition—in bringing digital twin technology to patients Reinhard C. Laubenbacher

NASA's Plans for Next-Generation Mars Helicopters Are Up in the Air After the spectacular success of the first-ever "Marscopter," mission planners have soaring ambitions for follow-up flying machines Lyndie Chiou

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