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Scientists continue to unearth enzymes that can eat away plastic materials with high efficiency, and a team in Spain has just discovered more in the saliva of wax worms, which have the ability to degrade plastic bags in hours at room temperature.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, who all conducted some of the first experiments with entangled photons, enabling a future for commercial quantum computers.

While not nearly as expensive as full-on industrial ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), smaller underwater drones can still cost up to a few thousand dollars. The BentiX is designed to be different, as it could be yours for around US$999.

VSSL expands its line of modular utility gear with a very different style of multitool, a packable party called the Insulated Flask. Not only does the double-walled vacuum-insulated flask keep your beverage close at hand and at an ideal temperature, it carries an integrated Bluetooth speaker to crank up the tunes from an accompanying smart device.

When it comes to electric mountain bikes, there are those made by obscure startups, and then there are others made by trusted, established bicycle companies. The Oso is definitely amongst the latter, as it comes from esteemed US brand Ibis.

Ten years after the naked sportbike CB600F Hornet went out of production, Honda is plotting its return with claims of a class-leading power-to-weight ratio from its brand new 755-cc inline twin. The motor will also power the revival of the Transalp.

Earlier this year, Samsung treated us to the kind of image madness we could expect from its new 200-megapixel camera sensor. The honors for the first phone to feature such a monster went to Motorola, and now Xiaomi has joined the 200-MP party.

LG has debuted the MAGNIT 4K 136-inch luxury television at CEDIA 2022, which combines AI-enhanced processing, a smart TV platform and Micro LED technology for the promise of "an extraordinary home cinema, digital art and entertainment experience."

Last week, NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, and now images have been released of the collision and aftermath from a suite of telescopes – including Hubble and James Webb in their first collaboration. One even shows a new 10,000-km tail.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to geneticist Svante Pääbo for tracing human evolution by constructing the genomes of extinct hominins. Pääbo sequenced the Neanderthal genome and discovered a brand new human relative.

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In a bid to reduce the environmental burden associated with both the manufacturing and disposal of plastics, scientists have demonstrated a new upcycling technique that turns one common form of it into another.