Can Honey be the sweet solution to making computers cleaner and faster?

I mean, honey, you just need a little water, right?

And it dissolves.

It's Thursday, February 8th, but it's also Science Friday.

Sweet. I'm Scifry producer Shishana Bucksbaum. Electronics are

because computer components like silicon are toxic when they're broken down.

So researchers in the Pacific Northwest are replacing

silicon chips with something you can pick up in the grocery store. Honey.

Substance has synaptic properties that make it a powerful tool. Honey. But first, Ira talks with a computer science undergraduate who figured out that each of our 10 fingerprints are more similar than we previously thought.

We've been told for decades in all kinds of ways. TV court dramas, newspaper reports, you name it, about how each

of our fingerprints is unique, kind of like a snowflake, right?

Right there on the tip of your finger.

But a new study shows that maybe each person's fingerprints

are more similar to each other than we thought.

How?

Researchers trained AI. What else? To identify if a thumb print and a pinky print came from the same person.

Joining me now to talk about what they found is Gabe Guo, study author and an undergraduate at Columbia University

majoring in computer science based in New York. Gabe, welcome to Science Friday.

Yes, thank you for having me today, Ira. Nice to have you.

All right, let's get into this.

What did you find?

How similar are one's persons fingers to each other?

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