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An estimated 530 million adults manage diabetes daily through injections, pills, or both. Now a team at East China Normal University in Shanghai has published results in Nature for something genuinely different: a probiotic that senses high blood sugar and automatically produces a glucose-lowering hormone in response — then shuts off when levels normalize. Lead…

We’ve tested a wide range of smart home products this year, spanning from the highly specialized to uber-functional gadgets many of us couldn’t live without ever again. Case in point: when I moved into my new home (on a busy corner in my neighborhood), smart blinds were among the first things on my mind.