One Giant Leap for Mankind; Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2019
From generating clean renewable electricity all over the world to exploring the cosmic space beyond—science has made some great strides in 2019. The post One Giant Leap for Mankind; Top 10 Scientific...
View ArticleResearchers On Brink of Delivering Energy-Dense Battery That Will Power Your...
If implemented on a wider scale, these batteries could keep your cell phone and electric vehicle charged for days at a time. The post Researchers On Brink of Delivering Energy-Dense Battery That Will...
View ArticleThis New LED Lamp Has Helped 90% of Its Dyslexic Users to Read ‘Effortlessly’
More than 90% of the dyslexic people who tested the device said they could “easily read any text illuminated by the lamp”. The post This New LED Lamp Has Helped 90% of Its Dyslexic Users to Read...
View ArticleSustainable Sand Gives Pollution a One-Two Punch by Soaking Up Toxic Metals...
Since the material can cleanse water of toxic metals and pollutants, it could help create whole new water supplies in drier cities. The post Sustainable Sand Gives Pollution a One-Two Punch by Soaking...
View ArticleCompany Collects 80% of City’s Recyclable Plastics and Turns It All into Lumber
More than 80% of the municipal plastic recyclables of Halifax are being processed by a brilliant local company that turns it all into lumber. The post Company Collects 80% of City’s Recyclable Plastics...
View ArticleThis App Delivers Instant Sign Language Interpreters For Those Tricky Moments...
The new Jeenie video chat app instantly connects ASL-speakers with intrepreters who can translate sign language into spoken word. The post This App Delivers Instant Sign Language Interpreters For Those...
View ArticleWaiting List Opens For Electric SUV With Monthly Subscription Fee Tailor-Made...
Preparing for its 2021 release, the Canoo, a lounge-like electric SUV is yours for a month-to-month fee if you get on their obligation-free waitlist. The post Waiting List Opens For Electric SUV With...
View ArticleThis Collapsible, Self-Cleaning Steel Straw Could Finally Spell the End of...
Since the straw's crowdfunding campaign was launched earlier this week, it has already raised almost twice its original goal. The post This Collapsible, Self-Cleaning Steel Straw Could Finally Spell...
View ArticleCrafty Denver Nonprofit Snags Old Hotel and Turns it into ‘Instant Housing’...
This Denver nonprofit bought an old hotel building and turned it into instant housing for low-income individuals and homeless residents. The post Crafty Denver Nonprofit Snags Old Hotel and Turns it...
View ArticleNew MRI Machine Offers Breakthrough Advancements in Almost Every Aspect
Ohio State University’s colleges of medicine and engineering have partnered with Siemens to create a new MRI machine that overcomes key limitations of the existing machine. Their new new design opens...
View ArticleParkinson’s Disease Symptoms ‘Reversed’ by Mini Implant Bringing Hope
A small implant connected to electrodes inserted into the skull bone is providing huge relief to younger patients living with Parkinson’s disease, such that it could allow sufferers to pick up fine...
View ArticleBronx Housing Complex Comes With Giant Machine Stomach to Turn All Food Waste...
A new community housing development in the Bronx will feature a cool piece of kit: an on-site aerobic digester that can turn 1,100 pounds of food scraps into 220 pounds of high-quality fertilizer every...
View ArticleHelicopter Successfully Catches Earth-Bound Rocket in a ‘Supersonic Ballet’
A space company has successfully caught an Earth-bound rocket—by helicopter. The launch, last Monday, saw Rocket Lab deploying 34 satellites to orbit before the ‘Electron booster stage’ was...
View ArticleNew Dimension for Coral Restoration: 3-D Printed Reefs Recreate Natural...
An innovation interface tailors 3D-printed reefs to their marine environment and may curb reef devastation plaguing global coral ecosystems. In a new paper, researchers from four of Israel’s leading...
View ArticleHandheld Device Painlessly Identifies Skin Cancer Without Biopsy Scars
Skin biopsies are no fun: doctors carve away small lumps of tissue for laboratory testing, leaving patients with painful wounds that can take weeks to heal. That’s a price worth paying if it enables...
View ArticlePlants Have Been Grown in Lunar Soil For The First Time Ever
Food has been grown in soil collected from the moon for the first time, paving the way for human migration across the solar system. Pioneers would be able to cultivate crops on other worlds—mirroring...
View ArticleNew Online Map Shows You the Local Mosquito Forecast for the Week
What’s on the to-do list for a late-spring barbecue? Go shopping, sweep the deck, clean the grill, and check the mosquito forecast… That’s right, Google Earth Engine and SC Johnson are using weather...
View ArticleScientists Power a Computer Using Only Algae and Daylight to Make the...
Researchers have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year—and counting—using nothing but ambient light and water. Their system has potential as a...
View ArticlePortable Wind Turbine Fits in Your Backpack to Charge All Your Electronics –...
Meet the portable wind turbine for campers, RVers, backpackers, wilderness researchers, or anyone who needs a bit of USB power in the great outdoors. Weighing three pounds, or just under 1.5 kilos,...
View ArticleWorld’s First Ocean-Assisted Carbon Removal Plant Launched in Hawaii
A company in middle of the Pacific has created a unique system that takes advantage of existing infrastructure to pull carbon from the ocean. The advantage of taking carbon out of the ocean is...
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