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What Canon Captures CoCo?

On March 13, 2026, the Georgia Tech Center of Excellence in Computational Cognition (CoCo) held its sesquiannual Computational Cognition Conference (CoCo Con) – an event where researchers from Georgia Tech and other Atlanta area universities working at the intersection of…

Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free?

Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free? @naturejab is a content creator who’s claimed to be able to recycle plastic into a fuel dubbed “plastoline” using solar-powered microwave pyrolysis for free. Having amassed over 76 million views on his flagship TikTok…

Caffeine in E-Sports

References: Wu, SH., Chen, YC., Chen, CH. et al. (2024). Caffeine supplementation improves the cognitive abilities and shooting performance of elite e-sports players: a crossover trial. Sci Rep 14, 2074