New AI-Powered Farming Robot Trundles About Inspecting 50 Acres of Crops per...
Most people imagine robots at work in a factory, but there’s no less innovation going on at the farm—take this spoke-wheeled robot plant nurse who can inspect 50 acres of row crops for disease, pests,...
View ArticleAviation Startup ZeroAvia Flies Largest-Ever Hydrogen Electric Aircraft
An aviation start-up just set a new world-first for the largest hydrogen-powered aircraft flight in history—a 19-seat aircraft called the Dornier 228. Designed by ZeroAvia, the start-up is developing...
View ArticleTo Boost Pollination, Tiny ‘FAIRY Robots‘ Can be Propelled by the Wind Like...
In the future, millions of artificial dandelion seeds carrying pollen could be dispersed freely by natural winds and then steered by light toward specific areas with trees or flowers awaiting...
View ArticleMaking Building Materials Out of Fast-Growing Grasses Capture More Carbon...
A startup looking to find better ways to mass-produce lumber for construction has swapped trees for grass. It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and molding machines, the fibers of certain...
View ArticleCalifornia Man Builds Solar-Powered Trike with Stuff in His Garage—And it’s...
No gas is no problem for one Stockton CA inventor who created a solar-powered tricycle that’s really catching on. Milton Butler’s invention uses two batteries and a small electric motor gathered up in...
View ArticleBatteries 3D-Printed Using Layers of Powder Use 40% Less Material, Charge in...
It seems like a new Silicon Valley startup could change the face of the battery industry forever by utilizing 3D printers to print solid-state batteries. Solid-state batteries have advantages over...
View ArticleFirst Flight of Regional Jet Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells–40-Seater is...
A fledgling energy company looking to develop true zero-emissions aircraft just took a massive leap forward with the first-ever regional passenger flight powered principally on hydrogen. A 40-seat...
View ArticleCompany to Make History With World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Launch
A private space tech firm will become the first entity to launch a 3D-printed rocket, which is technically the largest 3D-printed object as well. Totally reusable, the Terran 1 will launch today from...
View ArticleLebanese Man Builds Wind Turbine from Recycled Plastic–Producing Electricity...
In Lebanon’s windy northwest governate of Akkar, a literature student taught himself engineering to build a wind turbine on his grandmother’s roof. With government-supplied electricity more of a nice...
View ArticleSwitzerland Set to Roll Out Solar Panels Between Railway Tracks–A World First
Europe’s love of train travel is about to transform the continent’s solar energy production as the Swiss are set to begin installing solar panels in between train tracks. The startup called Sun-Ways is...
View ArticleIndian Startup Uses Rice Crop Waste to Make Biodegradable Foam...
A Delhi-based engineer has designed a replacement for polystyrene packaging out of “rice stubble” the dead stalks left over after the rice season in India, millions of tons of which are burned every...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Water Treatment that Zaps ‘Forever Chemicals’ for Good
There’s been a lot of talk recently about so-called “forever chemicals” and how our society can use new technologies to remove these old toxins from the water and soils of our world. A new solution...
View ArticleNew Brain Implant Device Could Restore Function in Paralyzed Limbs
A brain implant that can restore arm and leg movements has been developed by British scientists to boost connections between neurons and the paralyzed limbs, offering hope to accident victims. The...
View ArticleHate Needles? Future Vaccines Could be Delivered by a Gentle Puff of Air
Nobody likes needles, but they’re necessary for delivering many vaccines and biologics into the body. But what if those could be puffed through the skin instead, with just a little pressure, like being...
View ArticleThis Iridescent Coating Could Cool Your House Without Air-Conditioning
How can we cool houses without using A/C? Scientists have now discovered that one way would be to turn the roof and walls into a beetle’s shell. That’s because tiny nanostructures on the beetle’s...
View ArticleNew Shoreline Protection Looks Like Massive Lego Bricks and Doubles as Home...
Those aren’t giant Lego bricks out there in the grey waters off the port of Rotterdam, they are part of a new seawall that doubles as a home for marine life. A kind of artificial oyster reef to help...
View ArticleEntrepreneur Designs Shoes That Expand As Children Grow, Building Great...
FYI to the non-parents out there, it takes at least 15 pairs of shoes for a child to grow from a toddler to a teenager—that’s a lot of trips to the Footlocker. Fortunately, an Indian entrepreneur from...
View ArticleGenius Physics Teacher Starts Kenyan E-Bike Business Powered by Old Laptop...
A Kenyan high school teacher is using your old laptop batteries to turn petrol-powered bikes into electric ones. There’s no shortage of MacGyver-like innovations in Africa, and Paul Waweru is a perfect...
View ArticleDevice Pulls Dozens of Liters of Water from the Air–Already Being Installed...
Entrepreneurs in Jordan have created a sophisticated machine that pulls water from the desert air at a rate that could cure the country’s water woes. 1,000 units of their flagship device have already...
View ArticleVisionary Gardener Turns Piles of Beached Seaweed Into Bricks for Sustainable...
While tourists visiting Mexican beaches complain about piles of smelly seaweed, one Mexican gardener reckoned it was something like a gift. The governments in places like Cancun have been required to...
View ArticleThis Gel Stops Brain Tumors After Surgery, Offering Hope for Glioblastoma...
Medication delivered by a novel gel cured 100% of mice with an aggressive brain cancer, a striking result that offers new hope for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most...
View ArticleSweden’s First EV-Charging Road Will Power Electric Vehicles as They Drive
The “E-20” highway stretch in Sweden will soon become the nation’s first functioning charging road to juice the batteries of heavy vehicles carrying freight around the nation. E-20, (the E actually...
View ArticleHydrogen-Powered Swiss Jet May Herald Return of Supersonic Flight–And Cut...
A European firm is hoping to revive the dream of commercial hypersonic travel with a prototype that will reduce flight times by 75%. Unlike several other supersonic startups that have come and gone,...
View ArticleTiny Battery Obliterates Breast Cancer Tumors in Mice by Creating Oxygen-free...
A tiny implant has placed a big target on the back of breast cancer tumors in mice, according to the results of a new study reported by South West News Service and New Scientist. In the small study, a...
View ArticleShark Attack App Uses AI to Forecast and Detect Risk for Swimmers at 89%...
A sophisticated app generates shark attack “forecasts” using artificial intelligence. The developers are taking advantage of a deep learning algorithm to compartmentalize over a hundred years of shark...
View ArticleThis Fabric Is Designed to Block Mosquito Bites
In a potentially huge development for fashion in tropical countries, an entomologist has come up with a Spandex-polyester weave that’s impermeable to the proboscis of the mosquito. Mosquitos...
View ArticleCreating Electricity From Moisture in the Air, Even in the Sahara Desert
A totally science-fiction device developed by scientists in Massachusetts would allow people to pull electricity out of thin air. Back in 2020, GNN reported on an exciting experimental technology...
View ArticleCheap New Smartphone App Monitors Blood Pressure–Through Your Fingertips
A smartphone app has been developed that monitors blood pressure by using a simple and cheap 3D-printed plastic attachment that clips in front of the camera flash. High blood pressure is an underlying...
View ArticleHope for Tinnius Sufferers After Device Found to Reduce Ear Ringing by 60%
Tinnitus, the occasional ringing in the ear representing damage or impairment to the auditory systems, affects nearly 15% of all the adults in the US, but they might soon have the option of a simple at...
View ArticleHe Wants to Make Economy Class More Spacious With Innovative Double-Decker...
At an innovation fair in Germany, a young man might have just found a way to seat more people in an aircraft while simultaneously giving them more legroom and accessibility. How could such a thing be...
View ArticleScientists Are Recycling Wastewater to Reclaim Valuable Phosphorous to Put...
Scientists have taken pollutant phosphorus from wastewater and infused it into a soil superfood called biochar to really “close the loop” on several widespread agricultural practices. The biochar...
View ArticleSweden Is Trying to Build a Whole City Borough Out of Wood to ‘Show What is...
A Stockholm development company has a dream contract in its hands—the construction of a whole new city borough entirely of lumber that aims to be a sustainable ballast to an unbalanced city. Spanning...
View Article10,000 Bricks With Built-in Bird Homes Installed in UK Homes to Give Nest...
Tiny birds in the UK are being given free tenements from real estate development companies by installing “swift bricks” in new buildings around the country. Over 30,000 swift bricks—essentially a...
View Article24 Million Miles Ahead of Tesla, Autonomous Semi Truck Logs Accident-Free...
China’s leading developer of autonomous driving technologies for heavy-duty trucks, today announced it has powered more than 24.8 million miles (40 million km) of accident-free trucking on China’s...
View ArticleAll Kinds of Trash is Turned into Valuable Graphene That Can Cut the...
Imagine if you could turn a material that costs $100 per ton into one that costs thousands of dollars per pound—it’s the kind of story attached to the fable of the Philosopher’s Stone. At Rice...
View ArticleRobot Named Sorty McSortface Uses Mechanical Claws and AI to Sort Tons of...
Conversations about artificial intelligence took off in the media after the debut of ChatGPT this year, but AI had already been coiling its industry-changing hands around all sorts of applications for...
View ArticleLook What AI Could Do for Architecture: Giving Rise to a Stunning New Style
What will be the next great architectural style, the one that shapes the skylines and suburbs of the future? If you’ve never heard of “neoclassical futurism” that’s because it was just invented by an...
View ArticleWorld’s First Electric Aircraft Flight Powered by New Liquid Hydrogen–Flew...
The world’s first piloted flight of an electric aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen has taken place. H2FLY, the Stuttgart Germany-based developer of hydrogen-electric powertrain systems for aircraft...
View ArticleOld Wind Turbines are Repurposed into Footbridges Capable of Supporting 30 Tons
Wind turbine blades set to be landfilled or incinerated, are being turned into footbridges that can hold the weight of a 30-tonne digger. Currently, there are around 11,000 wind turbines in the UK, and...
View ArticleNew Ohio Factory to Produce Electric Air Taxis That Carry 5 Passengers With...
A company developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for passenger service, announced it plans to locate its first major aircraft production facility in Dayton, Ohio, the...
View ArticleFor First Time, Seawater Made Drinkable by Sunlight to Be Even Cheaper Than...
In a headline that’s rare to see these days, a US-China collaboration has created the cheapest and fastest way to purify seawater yet discovered by science. The prototype of the passive solar-powered...
View ArticleRobots That Look Like Manta Rays Will Sink Seaweed to Ocean Floor–Will Help...
A robotics company is making manta ray-shaped robots that drown seaweed and lock away the carbon it absorbed throughout its life for hundreds of years in Davy Jones’ Locker. Seaweed absorbs way more...
View ArticleHeavy-Lift Drone Can Haul 220-Pounds of Cargo for Delivery, Aid, or...
A heavy-lifting drone is now on sale in Europe that can haul loads in excess of 200 pounds. Called the FB3, it’s the first heavy-lifting drone with this level of versatility the market has seen, and...
View ArticleMassachusetts Innovators Aim to Turn Ocean Plastic into Fuel–Right Onboard...
Chemical engineers are pioneering a process to equip diesel ships with the onboard capacity to turn collected plastic garbage into fuel. The result has been dubbed “blue diesel” and would save time,...
View ArticleScientists Have Created Natural Sponges That Soak Up Nano-Plastics
Chinese scientists have created some experimental sponges out of starch and gelatin that can soak up microplastics which could be adopted in various places to reduce plastic pollution from entering the...
View ArticleSwedish Firm Will be Mailing Flat-Packed Car with Top Speed of 55 for Urban...
It isn’t likely to be your next home DIY project, but there is a company that’s looking to turn IKEA’s flat-packed furniture design into cars. The Swedish vehicle start-up Luvly is finishing up its...
View ArticleOld Coal Mine Filled With Warm Water Has Been Heating a Town with Green...
Britain’s deep coal mines have become a surprising source of green energy, one that’s been heating the town of Gateshead successfully for 6 months. The scheme is believed to be replicable in areas with...
View ArticleStudents Build World’s First Off-Road Solar-Powered SUV–and Drive it Across...
Students in The Netherlands have designed a solar-powered SUV that doubles as a small camper van to produce the ultimate concept car for off-grid adventure in sunny climes. Driving it 620 miles (1,000...
View ArticleDoritos ‘Crunch Cancellation’ Software for Gamers Removes Munching Sounds...
New ‘crunch cancellation’ software has been developed to remove the sound of munching while wearing a headset. Created by software developer Dylan Fashbaugh, the AI-powered tech listens out for the...
View ArticleBill Gates Backs Novel Merry-Go-Round Wind Turbine: Half the Cost and Better...
Bill Gates has backed a novel wind power system by investing in Airloom Energy, a company that has developed a carousel-style wind turbine. The Microsoft billionaire’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures led...
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