embryonic
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The Ivanpah plant used embryonic solar thermal technology that generated power from hundreds of thousands of mirrors focusing sunlight onto giant towers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
They rarely work with finished products; instead, they nurture embryonic ideas.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
Because both the brain and skin develop from the same embryonic layer called the ectoderm, the scientists set out to explore how these two systems might be connected.
From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025
There are real concerns with IVF in America, even for those who do not belong to the movement for embryonic personhood.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025
Having been immersed in the development of the atom’s destructive potential, they were hoping to shift as a team into work on the generation of electricity and other such peacetime aspects of the embryonic science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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