America on a new fast track to fusion energy
“The giant appropriations bill signed by US President Donald Trump on December 27 contains a little-noticed section that sets the goal of creating a full-fledged […]
Gaming CEO: Brain Interfaces Will Allow Us to Edit Our Feelings
“…The visual experience, the visual fidelity we’ll be able to create — the real world will stop being the metric that we apply to the […]
GM, Navistar team up to build hydrogen powered heavy trucks
“In about three years, Navistar plans to start selling low-emission hydrogen-powered heavy trucks under a partnership with General Motors and a small distribution company called […]
U.S. Students Design & 3D Print Reusable Lunar Mission Landing Pad
“A team of undergraduate students from ten U.S. colleges and universities – all members of NASA’s Artemis Generation – have designed a 3D printable, reusable launch and […]
Japanese pairing looking into using wood to build satellites
“Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry has announced a joint development project with Kyoto University to test the idea of using wood as a component in satellite […]
This CEO Just Brilliantly Explained How Remote Work Will Change The World By 2030…And It’s Next-Level
“As more and more companies rush to adapt new remote work policies, many find themselves behind the curve. But what if you could look into […]
Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
“The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. That […]
Watch A Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms (Wired Directly To His Brain)
“After living with quadriplegia for 30 years — meaning that all four of his limbs are paralyzed — Robert “Buz” Chmielewski was able to feed himself with […]
Here’s What Traveling By Hyperloop Could Look Like
Virgin Hyperloop has released a new video showing what the experience of being shot inside a pod down a vacuum tube at breakneck speeds could […]
Global Blockchain in Energy Market Top Players Analysis
“The Global Blockchain in Energy market report enumerates highly classified information portfolios encompassing multi-faceted industrial developments with vivid references of market share, size, revenue predictions along with […]
Inexpensive battery charges rapidly for electric vehicles, reduces range anxiety
“Range anxiety, the fear of running out of power before being able to recharge an electric vehicle, may be a thing of the past, according […]
3D Printed, Vascularized Lung Models Push 3D Systems into Bioprinting
“3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) has announced that it is diving further into the bioprinting space, upon significant progress made by its partner United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ:UTHR) and […]
Elon Musk says he will give $100 million to whoever creates the best carbon-capture technology
“Elon Musk teased his latest philanthropic endeavor on Thursday: a contest meant to encourage more-innovative carbon-capture technologies. “Am donating $100M towards a prize for best […]
What if we only worked four days a week?
“Monday to Friday, nine to five – like hamsters on a wheel, we’ve been stuck in this rut for as long as we can remember, […]
President Biden Orders Government To Make All Federal Vehicles Electric
“U.S. President Joe Biden committed on Monday to replacing the entire federal fleet of vehicles, including cars, trucks and SUVs, with electric ones manufactured in […]
Nature: Restoring Vision by recovering epigenetic information. A major milestone for curing aging.
“Ageing is a degenerative process that leads to tissue dysfunction and death. A proposed cause of ageing is the accumulation of epigenetic noise that disrupts […]
Getting to net zero—and even net negative—is surprisingly feasible, and affordable
“Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on […]
No Trees Harmed: MIT Aims to One Day Grow Your Kitchen Table in a Lab
“You’ve likely heard the buzz around lab-grown (or cultured) meat. We can now take a few cells from a live animal and grow those cells into a […]
Scientists Just Set a New World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency
“Improving the efficiency of solar cells can make a huge difference to the amount of energy produced from the same surface area and the same amount of […]
Malawi Wants to Build Africa’s First 3D Printed Buildings
“A group in Malawi wants to build Africa’s first 3D printed buildings. A LafargeHolcim and CDC joint venture, 14Trees, will use a COBOD BOD2 3D printer to […]
Europe’s largest vertical farm will have 1,000-tonne annual capacity
“A new vertical farm – Nordic Harvest – will be Europe’s largest and most efficient when fully completed in late 2021. The indoor facility is […]
VR In Therapy: VR’s Positive Impact On Mental Health
“When we think of virtual reality I tend to think of gaming and fun virtual experiences. But the benefits of VR stretch far wider than […]
VW’s prototype robot is designed to offer full-service charging for electric vehicles
“Volkswagen Group has developed a mobile electric vehicle charger that can autonomously navigate parking areas, power up an EV and then make its way back […]
Artificial intelligence for food security
“AI, or artificial intelligence, is attracting great attention across many industries, even food production, according to research published in the International Journal of Society Systems Science. […]
Houston will soon be home to the largest urban solar farm in the country
“Mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston city council approved a lease of 240 acres of city-owned land in the Sunnyside area to a Wolfe Energy subsidairy. […]
Virtual Biopsies Cloud Replace Tissue Biopsies Thanks To Technique Developed By Cambridge Scientists
“A new advanced computing technique using routine medical scans to enable doctors to take fewer, more accurate tumour biopsies, has been developed by cancer researchers […]
China Just Powered Up Its “Artificial Sun” Fusion Reactor
“China has successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, according to Agence France Presse. The reactor, which is the country’s largest, […]
DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding
“Having risen to fame on its superhuman performance at playing games, the artificial intelligence group DeepMind has cracked a serious scientific problem that has stumped researchers for […]
Europe’s Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots
“From cultured meat to plant-based foods to robotic kitchen assistants, tech seems to be infiltrating every corner of our food system. And it’s a good thing, because we’re […]
3D Printing Named Alongside Green Hydrogen, Autonomous Vehicles and AI Sensors As Top Emerging Technologies To Watch In 2021
“A new report by Lux Research has ranked 3D printing as one of the top 12 emerging technologies to watch as we enter 2021. Having consistently made the […]
Electric, Self-Driving Tractor May Just Be The Future Of Farming As We Know It
“The world of farming is changing rapidly. Whether it’s CRISPR editing for improving crop yields, smart scarecrows, or robot weeding machines, this sector continues to transform at a […]
Southern Virginia to Open $25.5M Manufacturing Center with 3D Printing
“Ground was just broken for a new facility in Southern Virginia. The Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA) will be a 51,250-square-foot site meant to allow manufacturing companies […]
Why the Price of New Solar Electricity Fell an Incredible 89% in the Last Decade
“From 2009 through 2019, the cost of electricity from new solar power plants fell 89%, overtaking cheap sources like coal and some gas. And the […]
Gene therapy injection in one eye surprises scientists by improving vision in both
“Injecting a gene therapy vector into one eye of someone suffering from LHON, the most common cause of mitochondrial blindness, significantly improves vision in both eyes, […]
2-Acre Vertical Farm Run By AI And Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
“Plenty is an ag-tech startup in San Francisco, co-founded by Nate Storey, that is reinventing farms and farming. Storey, who is also the company’s chief science […]
NHTSA is Defining Safety for Self-Driving Cars, But It Has Questions For You
“On November 19, 2020, NHTSA released its advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) for autonomous vehicles. Written comments are due by February 1, 2021. This is the […]
Wind overtook coal as a power source in Texas last year
“More electricity in Texas was generated from wind power than coal last year, another sign of the rapid emergence of renewable energy in the state. […]
How AI will solve agriculture’s water efficiency problems
The optimal use of water through irrigation has always been inextricably linked to the evolution of agriculture and successful farming. But efficiently managing natural water […]
Scientists Found A New Way To Break Down the Most Common Plastic
“The petrochemical industry produces more than 88 million tons of polyethylene, making it the most common plastic in the world. Scientists have found a new way to […]
Process for Regenerating Neurons in the Eye and Brain Identified
“The death of neurons, whether in the brain or the eye, can result in a number of human neurodegenerative disorders, from blindness to Parkinson’s disease. […]
New method unscrambles entangled light after transfer through complex scattering media
“Physicists have developed a technique to unscramble quantum entangled light after its transfer through a multimode optical fibre, recovering the quantum information carried that would […]
Spread of Electric Cars Sparks Fights for Control Over Charging
“Electric vehicles are widely seen as the automobile industry’s future, but a battle is unfolding in states across America over who should control the charging […]
New virtual reality software allows scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells
“Virtual reality software which allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new […]
MIT Invents AI To Decipher Ancient Languages
“A team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created an AI that’s capable of automatically deciphering long lost languages, […]
This Arkansas school turned solar savings into better teacher pay
“In Batesville, Arkansas, just 17 miles west of the state’s largest coal-fired power plant, a solar array at the local high school is having an […]
Activists Build Facial Recognition To ID Cops Who Hide Their Badges
“In order to hold police accountable when they try to hide their identities, a growing number of activists are developing facial recognition tools that identify […]
A virtual reality game that integrates tactile experiences using biometric feedback
“Researchers at Nagoya University’s School of Informatics in Japan have recently created a new VR game that integrates immersive audiovisual experiences with tactile perception. This game, […]
Study Shows US Switch to 100% Renewables Would Save Hundreds of Billions Each Year
“While President Donald Trump has baselessly attacked plans to eradicate fossil fuel-based sources of energy from the United States’ power grid on the grounds that […]
Newly Discovered Cell Could Reverse Nerve Damage From Stroke, Spinal Injury
“Scientists revealed Monday they have discovered a new type of immune cell that could save dying nerve cells, as well as reverse damage done to […]