He 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...
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