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Today, you\u2019ll learn about how that light coming in through your window at night is in fact ruining your sleep, how some diseases\u2014including cancer\u2014can be smelled by dogs and we\u2019re on the verge of being able to smell them with modern technology, and how algae may one day provide the power for our smallest devices.

Close your blinds.

• \u201cLight exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function\u201d by Ivy C. Mason, Kathryn J. Reid, Chloe D. Warlick, Roneil G. Malkani, Sabra M. Abbott, and Phyllis C. Zee
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2113290119
• \u201cSleeping with a light on may be bad for your heart and blood sugar\u201d by Nicoletta Lanese
  • https://www.livescience.com/sleep-in-lit-room-worse-heart-metabolic-health
• \u201cSleeping with the light on may be harmful to you\u201d by Erin Blakemore
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03/20/sleep-lights-health/
• \u201cWhat is the difference between lux and lumens?\u201d by Waveform Lighting
  • https://www.waveformlighting.com/home-residential/what-is-the-difference-between-lux-and-lumens
• \u201cInsulin Resistance & Prediabetes\u201d by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  • https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/what-is-diabetes/prediabetes-insulin-resistance

What\u2019s that smell?

• \u201cCancer has a smell. Someday your phone may detect it.\u201d by Noam Hassenfeld
  • https://www.vox.com/unexplainable/22323113/unexplainable-smell-mystery-nanonose
• \u201cDogs Are Teaching Machines to Sniff Out Cancer\u201d by Asher Jones
  • https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/dogs-are-teaching-machines-to-sniff-out-cancer-68469
• \u201cThe Quest to Make a Bot That Can Smell as Well as a Dog\u201d by Sara Harrison
  • https://www.wired.com/story/quest-to-make-robot-smell-cancer-dog/
• \u201cWhat DARPA Does\u201d by DARPA
  • https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/what-darpa-does

Get used to algae-power.

• \u201cAlgae-powered computing: Scientists create reliable and renewable biological photovoltaic cell\u201d by Eureka Alert
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952203
• \u201cAlgae-powered computing: scientists create reliable and renewable biological photovoltaic cell\u201d by University of Cambridge
  • https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-create-reliable-biological-photovoltaic-cell-using-algae
• \u201cScientists create algae computer powered by photosynthesis\u201d by James Vincent
  • https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/16/23074715/algae-computer-chip-photosynthesis-arm-cortext-iot-biophotovoltaics
• \u201cA Potato Battery Can Light Up a Room For Over a Month\u201d by Tuan C. Nguyen
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-potato-battery-can-light-up-a-room-for-over-a-month-180948260/

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