GM commits $3 billion to build electric and autonomous vehicles in Michigan
“GM said Monday it will invest $2.2 billion into its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs, as well as a self-driving vehicle […]
CRISPR gene-editing corrects muscular dystrophy in pigs
“Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the most common and most devastating muscular diseases, greatly reducing patients’ quality of life and life expectancy. Now, […]
Tech giants power record surge in renewable energy sales
“The world’s biggest tech companies fuelled a record surge in the amount of renewable energy sold directly to global corporations last year, according to new […]
Decoding the Brain Goes Global With the International Brain Initiative
“Few times in history has mankind ever united to solve a single goal. Even the ultimate moonshot in history—putting a man on the moon—was driven […]
Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For The First Time
“On Monday, researchers from Japan’s Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant. Rather than replacing their patient’s entire heart with a new organ, […]
Ireland Plans to Plant 440 Million Trees By 2040 to Fight Climate Change
“Ireland has big plans for combatting climate change. The country plans to plant 440 million trees over the next 40 years, according to its climate action plan. Originally, […]
Swiss Real Estate Company Closes $134 Million Deal Using Blockchain
A building on the prestigious Banhofstrasse in Zurich, Switzerland was successfully tokenized and sold on the blockchain today. The new owner of the building is […]
3D Printing of Complex Structures with Metallic and Magnetic Materials with Nanoresolution
“The fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures is of great interest to many areas of nanotechnology currently challenged by fundamental limitations of conventional lithography. One of […]
Company Collects 80% of City’s Recyclable Plastics and Turns It All into Lumber
“This trailblazing Canadian company is building a new standard for sustainability since they started recycling the bulk of their municipal plastic waste into lumber. Roughly […]
How AI is really going to change real estate in 2020 and beyond
“By 2030, AI is predicted to add +$15 trillion to the global GDP thanks largely to solving data issues according to PwC. Lending money used to […]
This decade will see the world shed the fear of losing jobs to bots
The last decade witnessed the technology landscape change rapidly. As humans kept pace, it also birthed the need for extensive reskilling. The next decade will […]
Mojo Vision’s Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Kick off a Race to AR on Your Eye
“The digital world has been creeping closer to your face. Was a time when a laptop was about as personal as you got with a […]
How augmented reality can help create sustainable, environment-friendly smart cities
“With people feeling the heat of climate breakdown and the government planning to create sustainable cities that provide a decent quality of life to citizens, […]
Chinese Researchers Design 3D Printed Biomimetic Soft Robotics & Grippers
“In the recently published ‘3D printed shape-programmable magneto-active soft matter for biomimetic applications,’ researchers from China explore the development of a high-performance material that transforms […]
Why the World Economic Forum Is Creating a Blockchain ‘Bill of Rights’
“If the last few years have taught us one thing, it’s this: Users are not magically protected as technology evolves. Rather, user protection is something […]
Scotland to Reach 100% Renewable Energy This Year
Wind power in Scotland is the fastest-growing renewable energy technology, with 8423 MW of installed wind power capacity as of December 2018. This included 7800 MW from onshore wind in Scotland and 623 MW […]
Physicists Finally Observe a Link Between Quantum Criticality And Entanglement
“We know that the realm of quantum physics is science operating at a mind-bogglingly small scale, thus watching quantum interactions happen is always exciting. Now, physicists have […]
A New Children’s Book Uses VR And AR To Create Immersive Storytelling
A new children’s book, The Case of the Missing Cleopatra, aims to combine traditional storytelling methods with mobile AR and VR technologies, giving children new […]
Rhode Island Is 1st US State To Commit To 100% Renewable By 2030
“The littlest state in the US has set the biggest goals for renewable energy. Governor Gina Raimondo signed an executive order this month calling for an end […]
GM’s Cruise Unveils its First Driverless Vehicle
“Cruise, the self-driving car start-up, majority owned by General Motors, has unveiled its first vehicle designed to be driverless. The electric-powered Cruise Origin was developed […]
Google publishes largest ever high-resolution map of brain connectivity
“Scientists from Google and the Janelia Research Campus in Virginia have published the largest high-resolution map of brain connectivity in any animal, sharing a 3D model that […]
Subaru plans to sell only electric cars by the middle of the 2030s
“Nipping infinite rumors in the bud, Subaru confirmed the Outback, the Forester, the BRZ, the WRX STI, and every other car it makes will go electric or disappear by the middle of the […]
Turkish City Developing Crypto and Blockchain Solutions for Public Services
Konya, the city of the world-famous poet Rumi, might not come to mind when talking about technology, especially blockchain and cryptocurrencies. As one of the major cultural centers […]
Researches Develop 3D Printable Would Dressings Based on Fruit
Researchers from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece, have developed 3D printable direct and indirect patches with wound-healing capabilities. In an article published in the journal Pharmaceutics, 3D […]
World’s largest offshore wind farm begins construction
“Dogger Bank Wind Farms – a joint venture between SSE Renewables and Equinor – consists of three offshore wind farm sites in the North Sea, […]
British Scientists Accidentally Discover Immune Cells That “May Treat All Cancer”
“A newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers, say scientists. The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing […]
Harvesting Ocean Energy: Bio-Inspired Membrane Efficiently Produces Electricity From Saltwater
“Inspired by membranes in the body tissues of living organisms, scientists have combined aramid nanofibers used in Kevlar with boron nitride to construct a membrane […]
The Cube One Prefab is a space-age dream – and it starts at $30k
“With dazzling lighting, a curvilinear design, and a fortified shell, the Cube One is a prefab for the future. Want a peek at the future […]
Copper-Based Nanomaterials May Be the Cancer Cure We Have All Been Waiting for
“An interdisciplinary team of scientists from KU Leuven, the University of Bremen, the Leibniz Institute of Materials Engineering, and the University of Ioannina have successfully eradicated cancer in […]
Abu Dhabi-based agency calls for clean energy investments to double
“An international agency promoting clean energy called Sunday for investments in renewable energy projects to be more than doubled, redirecting funds from fossil fuels. The […]
Artificial Intelligence System Learns the Fundamental Laws of Quantum Mechanics
“Artificial Intelligence can be used to predict molecular wave functions and the electronic properties of molecules. This innovative AI method developed by a team of […]
Scientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip
“Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the fundamentals of particle physics. […]
This Giant Box Is A Water Treatment Plant For Your Home
“A Dutch startup called Hydraloop has developed a $4,000, wardrobe-sized device that can clean, sterilize, and reuse household water — think of it as a home waste […]
Using Blockchain to Build “Charities” that automate Elinor Ostrom’s 8 Principles for Managing a Commons — An ‘Ostrom Compliant’ Cyber-Physical Commons
“Few people have contributed as much to our knowledge of the sustainable management of the commons as Elinor Ostrom. Winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in […]
This New Tool Works Like Shazam — But for Identifying Deadly Mosquitos
“In an effort to track and identify mosquitoes that spread disease around the world, a group of scientists from Oxford University and the Royal Botanic Gardens […]
IOTA (MIOTA) Set for Widespread Adoption by Top German Software Firm
“Software AG, a Germany-based multinational enterprise-grade software provider established in 1969, has announced that it’s looking to massively integrate IOTA (MIOTA) distributed ledger technology (DLT), […]
Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse
“The narratives we construct, the stories we tell ourselves must acknowledge that, while there’s a scientific consensus that the atmosphere is warming due to our […]
LinkedIn Says Blockchain Is Top Skill for 2020
“Last year, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and analytical reasoning led LinkedIn’s global list of the most in-demand hard skills,” LinkedIn wrote in the report. “They’re all […]
Scientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells
“In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have turned into skin […]
Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1 million miles in ‘robot taxis’
“Tesla’s battery research partner has released a new paper on a battery cell that could last over 1 million miles, which they say is going […]
Bosch thinks its new lidar system is the breakthrough self-driving cars need
“Bosch, the German supplier that’s responsible for building so many car-related components, won’t be left out of the self-driving car discussion. Instead, it wants to help shape […]
The major discoveries that could transform the world in the next decade
“The last decade ushered in some truly revolutionary advances in science, from the discovery of the Higgs boson to the use of CRISPR for Sci-Fi […]
Novel dementia vaccine on track for human trials within two years
“A newly published study has described the successful results in mice of a novel vaccine designed to prevent neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers […]
A Native American tribe has insulated itself from California’s blackouts by creating a microgrid utility
“After months of wildfires, an essential question in a warming, windy California is this: How does the state keep the lights on? A tiny Native […]
U.S. Air Force scientists developed liquid metal which autonomously changes structure
“As reported by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, military scientists have developed a “Terminator-like” liquid metal that can autonomously change the structure, just like […]
Denmark sets record, sourcing almost half of power from wind
“Denmark has reportedly set a record by sourcing almost half of its power from wind energy. The European country received 47 percent of its electricity […]
It’s been a hell of a millennium for medicine — and it’s just getting started
“In less than twenty years, several deadly diseases have been transformed into manageable, chronic conditions; the word “cure” has been added to the lexicon; and […]
[VIDEO] You Can Now Feel 3D images, Thanks to This New Tech
” Imagine an interactive, 3D representation of some object or person or infographic, that you can see, touch, and hear. While it might sound like […]
A Road Map to 100 Percent Renewable Energy in 139 Countries by 2050
“Nearly 140 countries could be powered 100 percent by solar, wind, hydropower and geothermal energy by 2050, a group of researchers say. Such a future […]