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You put this out there every single day. Anyone has access to it.
And they can learn a bucket load of information about you.
What is it?
Hey peeeeps. Trace here for Dnews.
Any idea what I'm talking about? I'll give you a hint.
It has nothing to do with social media but you do it every day.
Still no guesses?
It's pee.
Urine. ***. Mixture it.
Yeah its pee, and it is dead useful.
You're probably wondering what I can find out from your urine.
Science has tools to find out what drugs you are taking,
what you've eaten,
the health of your excretory system, whether you're pregnant and crap ton
of other the things that you likely already heard about.
We wouldn't be Dnews if we only told you the stuff that you already knew.
So how about this: I could take your urine and make brain cells.
Urine contains water soluble waste that your body doesn't need. It's filtered through
the kidneys and stored in the bladder until you get rid of it.
Reprogramming skin cells that make their way into this waste, Chinese scientists created
brain cells.
You're literally *** away your brain cells.
Using these cells scientists believe we can turn little bits from our own
pee
into our own stem cells and use them to cure diseases like Parkinson's or
Alzheimer's.
Yeah from pee.
Not good enough?
Okay
How about cancer?
Scientists in the UK created an electronic nose that can tell if you have
bladder cancer with a single sniff of your urine.
Usually a cystoscopy has to be performed to check the bladder
from the inside so it has to go
[gulp]
You know what, just look it up. It's awful.
This is way better.
The odoreader has a 100 percent accuracy at identifying bladder cancer in a thirty
minute window.
That's pretty great.
And if you're not worried about cancer, how about something more
practical?
Students in Nigeria used urine to create hydrogen power.
And some scientists in the UK turn similar technology into a pee-powered
cell phone charger.
Both work by feeding pizzle to microbes which turn the compound and
excrements into small amounts of energy.
And it's not just phones and lights.
NASA was looking at this technology to hydrazine as a propellant that can be used
in rocket fuel.
And using micro organisms some Dutch
scientist were able to create hydrazine
from the ammonia in urine.
Ammonia is what gives your pizzle that acrid smell.
Unfortunately the hydrazine was created in such small quantities that NASA lost
interest.
If you're more into the practical fun of urine. You know, writing writing your
name in the snow.
Or whatever. Then you should check out Captive Media, a London-based company, that
uses your stream to power video games.
You can create art, which is
shareable via email thank goodness, navigate ski slopes and even play trivia
games.
Aside from games, some Singaporean urinal cakes can
identify how drunk you are
by testing biomarkers in your ***.
Paired with RFID tags, these unusual
urinals can alert valet workers that certain drivers might be too
drunk to drive home.
Are you gonna look at your pee a little differently now?
Is this gross science or just great stuff?
Share your thoughts with us and hey, don't forget to flush.