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Hope is Green: Can Algae Save the World?
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Using algae to solve humanity's most pressing problems - that's the ambitious aim of a team of researchers from Germany. After all, algae are posessed of staggering superpowers: for example, the ability to bind CO2. Algae can also be used to make plastic substitutes and even medication.