The Evergreen

Can honey make computers faster and cleaner?


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Honey may be one of the weirder things you’ll see in a science lab. But researchers at Washington State University Vancouver say honey is key to what they’re working on: faster, cleaner computers. 

 

OPB’s science reporter Jes Burns learned about their research - including the effort to make computer chips work more like human brains - and gives us an inside look. You can check out Jes’s full coverage of this story in her recent episode of “All Science. No Fiction.” 

 

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