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UK Student Designs Bioplastic out of Fish Scales and Skin

Mila Luleva — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:39:31 +0000

UK student invents new-generation bioplastics. Can this be the solution to one of the world’s biggest pollution problems? It is this time of the year again, when James Dyson, well known British Inventor, awards his annual prize to the most talented student designer. With so many young brains currently mesmerizing the world with their inventions, […]

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Scientists Gene Edit Plants to Be Better at Capturing Carbon

Matias Prieto — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:33:28 +0000

It’s not enough for humans to pump less carbon into the atmosphere. To address climate change, many experts say we’re going to need to find a way to remove some of the emissions already polluting our air. While some scientists are focusing on mechanical solutions to carbon capture, researchers at the Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants […]

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New Solar Panels Produce Electricity Under Snow

Matias Prieto — Mon, 06 May 2019 12:51:02 +0000

Harvesting solar energy can be a tough job for panels if they are buried under blankets of snow. That is why a team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a new device that can produce electricity from snow itself. The device is a snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator or “Snow TENG”. As the […]

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3D-Printed Mushroom Brained Robot Detects Harmful Gases

Matias Prieto — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:54:54 +0000

Life Guardian is a cyborg that integrates a 3D printed mechanical part and a living part: a mushroom. The biological part determines and modifies the robot behavior, so it is considered as its brain. It was created by two Argentinean electronic artists for the festival of Land Art Mongolia 2018. Their purpose was to […]

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Scientists Turn Atmospheric CO2 into Coal Flakes

Effie P — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:36:26 +0000

The need to transition to clean energy production free from fossil fuels, is becoming more and more pressing as climate change is impacting our chances of survival on the planet. At the same time research efforts are also invested in removing from the atmosphere the tonnes of CO2 that we have already released. Current practices, […]

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Novel coating to keep buildings cool without air-conditioning

Effie P — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:05:44 +0000

Air-conditioning can account for more than 40% of the domestic energy consumption, and contributes to greenhouse emissions by making use of chemical refrigerants such as chlorofluorocarbons and halogenated chlorofluorocarbons. Global temperatures, however, keep rising, and the situation becomes more unbearable in the presence of humidity. At 80% relative humidity, temperatures of 32C can be perceived […]

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Novel bio-inspired materials to substitute plastics

Effie P — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:30:49 +0000

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) developed a novel approach to manufacture biodegradable substitutes for plastic. The team make use of the two most prevalent organic compounds on the planet: cellulose and chitin. They combine the two by mimicking the wall of the fungus-like oomycetes, that is, by introducing small amounts […]

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Top 5 Green Gadgets and Initiatives at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019

Mila Luleva — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:15:19 +0000

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is yet again very special for all green technology supporters. The show managed to gather the best of the best in the business of development of green gadgets. Of course, it would not be CES if the organizers did not put together the CES Green guide. […]

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Singapore Students Invent Chewable, Recyclable Straw

Effie P — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:09:39 +0000

Three Singaporean industrial design students designed the first chewable, reusable straw. It can be reassembled and stored in a pocket-size case, which you can use to spin dry your straw and carry it around. CHEW Inc founders Tommy Cheong, Kevin Yeo and Lim Jing Jie noticed that many people unconsciously chew on their straw- and […]

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World’s First Rechargeable Proton Battery Invented at RMIT in Australia

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Thu, 24 May 2018 19:18:47 +0000

Why Develop a Proton Battery? Enormous Potential With more improvements and modifications, the rechargeable proton battery developed at RMIT University has the potential to store much larger amount of energy than the currently available and widely used lithium-ion batteries. If scaled up, the technology can be applicable for medium-scale storage on electricity grids and for […]

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PNNL’s New EV Battery: 7x Longer Lifespan, 2 to 3 Times Longer Range

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:26:06 +0000

The transport sector remains a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and electric vehicles can eliminate this generation of pollutants. Still, there are factors that remain challenges to electric mobility. The miles an electric vehicle can drive before it runs out of charge is almost half of the miles a petroleum/diesel-fueled vehicle can drive before […]

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These RoboBees from Japan Can Legitimately Pollinate the Earth

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 22:05:21 +0000

With natural bees being reported as dying at an unprecedented rate, researchers have come up with the idea of developing “RoboBees” or bee-like drones that can perform artificial pollination. A team of Japanese researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has recently designed these artificial pollinators using horsehair, drones, and […]

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7 Reasons Why New Cell-Inspired Membrane Revolutionizes Water Treatment and Metal Recovery

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:54:48 +0000

Gecko’s feet for adhesion, lotus leaf for hydrophobicity, moth’s eyes for reduction of reflectivity in solar cells, and electric eels for power generation – these are just a few examples of how we can study nature and apply them in improving current technologies. This technique is called biomimicry. Researchers in Australia, led by Benny Freeman, […]

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This Is How Your Own Body Can Generate Electricity

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:19:20 +0000

When our personal smart devices run out of batteries and we forgot to bring chargers, and worse, we are stuck in a place where no power sources, how we could wish our own body movements could charge them up. In a few years’ time, small electronic devices might actually be charged up by electricity generated […]

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4 Reasons This New Material Could Make Up Biodegradable Cars

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:29:42 +0000

Even though the bodyworks of cars can be recycled, the process would require a huge amount of energy to make use of these metals again. To make vehicles more recyclable and greener than ever, the idea of biodegradable cars started. Materials of choice were a plastic composite of flax and beet, and a combination of […]

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New Water Evaporation Engine Could Be the Best Renewable Energy Device, Study Says

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:55:05 +0000

Evaporation engine, a theoretical machine that aims to convert evaporation energy into electricity, takes advantage of the infinite expanse of evaporating water from sun-heated lakes and dams. “Evaporation has the potential to be greater than wind power and closer to solar power,” said Ozgur Sahin, a researcher from the University of Columbia. The prototypes of […]

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New Process Allows Faster, Cheaper, and Greener Conversion of Organic Wastes into Renewables

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:17:08 +0000

Agricultural products and woods have been used as renewable sources of biofuel and various chemicals, which are essential for producing biodegradable plastics, medicine, and other petroleum-based products. To avoid competition with the food supply, and thus preventing food shortage, conversion technologies are applied only to plant-based wastes, also lignocellulosic biomass, which include wood chips, corn […]

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Giant Collection Fans Offer New Solution For Carbon Capture

Nicholas Say — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:51:31 +0000

There isn’t much to debate anymore when it comes to the harmful nature of carbon emissions. Even China has made huge changes to its energy sector, and they are moving to a much lower amount of greenhouse gas production. While meeting the emissions goals laid out in The Paris Accords is a great start, there […]

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Scientists Fantasizing How to Refreeze the Arctic Ice Cap

Nicholas Say — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:15:02 +0000

A scientist from Arizona State University has a bold plan to refreeze the arctic ice cap. Steven Desch is an astrophysicist, and he wants to build 10 million wind-powered pumps that would blast water onto the surface of the arctic ice. It sounds crazy and he knows it,”It’s ambitions and a little bit crazy in […]

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The Honey Bee Drones Are Coming, But Why?

Nicholas Say — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:41:42 +0000

In a curious new study, researchers from The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan have announced the creation of a honey bee drone for the purposes of pollination. A chemist named Eijiro Miyako was the brains behind this project, and explained that he was, “emotionally motivated,”, by, “TV programs about […]

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New Plastic Paving System Captures Solar and Kinetic Energy

Mila Luleva — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 19:08:02 +0000

A new paving system, made out of recycled plastics, is able to harvest both solar and kinetic energy. I am a big fan of solar roads and solar bike lanes. It is true that in terms of efficiency and placement, these might not be the best. However, I cannot think of a better way to […]

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Scientists Combine Energy Storage and Solar Cells in Tiny Fibers

Mila Luleva — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:43:00 +0000

Scientists developed a unique fabric, which can harness solar energy and store it for later use. There are quite a number of crowdfunding projects out there that plan to sell items of clothing with solar panels attached onto them. Although the demand for portable, rechargeable source of power is ever-so-huge, somehow, it is not surprising, […]

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Charging Smartphones in Seconds with New Supercapacitors

Mila Luleva — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:42:17 +0000

New flexible supercapacitors hold the key to super-fast charging cell phones. Has it become the time when finally batteries are out and the new and improved supertechnology comes to take their place and glory? It surely looks like it, or at least we are getting closer and closer to that moment, as scientists are making […]

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Scientists Just Made Rewritable Paper Real

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 08:38:43 +0000

Paper waste is one of the biggest environmental issues we’re facing nowadays. A team of researchers has come up with an interesting solution to this: rewritable paper. They made the recyclable paper from tungsten oxide and a common polymer used in medicines and food. More scientific data can be found in the journal ACS Applied Materials […]

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Scientists Closer to Building Energy Harvesting Computers

Mila Luleva — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:21:35 +0000

Energy-harvesting computers might soon become a reality, as scientists develop a new method to make them reliable. It is a dream-come-true for every programmer- the ultimate energy-harvesting computer that can charge itself and never crash an operation due to limited energy. As it stands right now, however, such computers look more like fiction high-tech than […]

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Vertical Walking System to Replace Energy-hungry Elevators

Mila Luleva — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:20:03 +0000

Dutch designers created a unique concept, called Vertical Walking, which can replace energy and maintenance-hungry elevators in high buildings. Internet is flooded with articles that tell us to sit less, keep moving, take the stairs, walk to work. A few days ago, there was even a research, claiming that sitting is the new smoking. Yet, […]

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Teenager Develops $5 Device to Harness Wind and Solar Power

Mila Luleva — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:06:21 +0000

Thirteen years old Maanasa Mendu developed a $5-wind and solar hybrid system to generate renewable energy. Teenagers often manage to amaze us with their forward thinking and incredible creativity. The inventions that they come up with can easily overtake those designed by the greatest of engineers. This is especially the case when we look at […]

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Lithium-Ion Electrodes Made Alongside with Beer

Mila Luleva — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:40:39 +0000

Scientists grew electrodes for lithium-ion batteries in the water discarded during the process of beer production. The latest invention in the field of energy storage comes from a team of engineers at Colorado Boulder University. They managed to find a way to produce an electrode for lithium- ion batteries by using the wastewater, which is […]

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MIT’s New Lithium-Ion Battery Could Be The Future of Electric Cars

Courtney Lepping — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:44:44 +0000

Qichao Hu, the CEO at MIT’s SolidEnergy Systems, invented a lithium-ion battery that will last twice as long but smaller by half. This battery is a big deal in that it uses lithium-metal foil as the anode material, as opposed to the standard graphite, carbon, or silicone, and can be used in things like wearables, […]

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Bionic Leaf Turns Light Into Liquid Biofuel

Mila Luleva — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:56:42 +0000

Scientists at Harvard developed a bionic leaf that can convert light into biomass more efficiently than nature, and then make biofuel. Artificial photosynthesis has been in the spotlight for quite some time. Typically it is associated with splitting the water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen via some sort of a solar technology. The produced hydrogen […]

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Heliofloat System Brings Off-shore Solar Closer to Reality

Mila Luleva — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:58:13 +0000

Scientists developed a wave-resisting platform that can hold multiple solar panels and float safely on the rough ocean surface. The concept of floating solar has been around for quite some time, but most technologies have been developed for in-land aquifers with somewhat stagnant waters. The main reason for this is that seas and oceans can become […]

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Bioo Pot Charges Your Phone with Plant Energy

Mila Luleva — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:35:49 +0000

Bioo plant pot is a revolutionary technology, which uses the energy from a living plant in a pot to charge your mobile device. The market is currently flooded with small portable chargers that provide renewable energy, most often solar. The amount of electricity they generate is sufficient to power electronic devices in case of emergency […]

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Philips LED Tech Promises Efficient Crop Growth in Space

Mila Luleva — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:46:28 +0000

Philips brings us a step closer to growing crops in space in a highly efficient way, thanks to their latest LED technology. Everybody is talking about moving out of Earth and inhabiting a brand new planet. Of course, it is easier said than done. Not only we have to find ways to transport ourselves over […]

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Bakey’s Edible Cutlery Could Reduce Plastic Waste

Mila Luleva — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:18:31 +0000

New type of edible cutlery can put an end to careless disposal of plastic spoons and chop sticks. Plastic pollution is an enormous problem, which continues to pick up speed. In many countries around the world awareness is being raised, plastic recycling is being stimulated, yet the amounts of plastic waste that end up in […]

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Revolutionary Roll Out Solar Panel Invented by Renovagen

Mila Luleva — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 19:44:01 +0000

Flexible solar panels by Renovagen can be rolled up and transported pretty much everywhere. It is safe to say that solar power has been on a roll over this past decade. The number of rooftop solar owners increased drastically, while the technology kept getting better and better. In order to optimize the usability, inventors and […]

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Artificial Trees from OSU Harness Energy from Vibrations

Mila Luleva — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 06:46:50 +0000

Artificial trees, inspired by nature, harness the energy of surrounding vibrations- from traffic to earthquakes. Over the recent years we have covered quite a number of nature-inspired technologies that are truly fascinating. Yes, often they seem to be slightly far-fetched, and probably not so feasible and viable, but they are very often inspirational. New technologies should […]

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‘Wind Tree’ Proves the ‘Silent Wind turbine’ Oxymoron False

Satya Sivani — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:39:21 +0000

Wind Tree, as we can guess from the name, is a wind turbine that looks like a tree. But, that is just a speck of this unconventional wind turbine’s definition. Noisy, Monstrous, Nauseous, giant, unpleasant, bird scaring are some of the properties that flash in our mind when we think about wind turbines. But, not […]

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How to Produce Electricity with Only Paper, a Pencil and Tape

Mila Luleva — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:24:46 +0000

Device made using a pencil, some paper and some tape, can generate enough electricity to power small electronics, courtesy of researchers from University of Tokyo. A group of scientists from University of Tokyo and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, built a revolutionary power-generating device, out of every-day, easy to access, cheap stationary materials. Using […]

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Graphene Membrane Filters Radioactive Isotopes from Nuclear Wastewater

Mila Luleva — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:47:21 +0000

Graphene membrane can differentiate between subatomic particles. It can clean nuclear wastewater. Scientists from University of Manchester, UK, created a new graphene membrane that can find numerous incredible uses in the nuclear power sector. More precisely, it can distinguish between lighter hydrogen atoms, with one proton nuclei, and heavy isotope that has both proton and a […]

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Ford’s Back Wheel Could Turn into Electric Unicycle

Mila Luleva — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:07:03 +0000

Ford wants to make every back wheel of their cars able to transform into an electric unicycle. On many occasions, even those among us strongly attached to their cars, wish they had a bicycle or some sort of a compact electric one- or two-wheeler vehicle in the trunk. This could have made these last few miles […]

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Be Amazed: These Socks Generate Energy from Urine

Samantha Joe — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 07:20:13 +0000

At the University of West England, a research team has developed a new kind of energy creating clothing: a pair of socks that use urine for generating electricity. These socks can store up to 650 milliliters of liquid by using a network of built-in tubes. The liquid is forced through microbial cells by using the […]

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‘Power Paper’ – Story Of A Paper That Can Store Electricity

Satya Sivani — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:48:31 +0000

Power Paper, created by the researchers of Sweden’s Linköping University, is showing an outstanding ability in storing energy, which can later be used to recharge devices. To meet the ever-increasing energy demands of our society, we need two kinds of devices – the first kind are the ones that can generate energy from renewable sources and the second […]

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Recycled Coffee Grounds in American Eagle’s Latest Jeans

Mila Luleva — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:33:56 +0000

American Eagle, one of the world’s biggest jeans manufacturers, has put a new twist in their latest line- the fabric that they use contains recycled coffee grounds. Used coffee grounds are finding more and more applications in our daily activities. First they were found to be a brilliant alternative to crops in the making of […]

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Japanese Art Inspires Design of Sun Tracking Solar Cells

Mila Luleva — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:38:48 +0000

Scientists developed solar cells that turn to face the sun on their own, without a need of expensive solar tracking system. The technology is inspired by the art of the Japanese kirigami. New developments in the field of solar cells are currently exceeding all expectations- higher efficiency, sleeker looks, even great transparency. But no matter how […]

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Hybrid Solar Cell Converts Both Light and Heat, Hits Record Efficiency

Mila Luleva — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:11:24 +0000

Scientists have developed the most efficient hybrid solar cell to date, which produces electricity from both heat and light. The concept of hybrid solar cells have been around for quite some time, with various scientific teams around the world trying to combine different materials in order to boost electricity generation of this already pretty efficient […]

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Dutch Students Make Leather from Fruit Waste

Mila Luleva — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:21:33 +0000

Dutch students have developed a method to convert fruit and vegetable waste into “fruit leather”, which can then be made into trendy handbags. Regardless of how many pleas and tries there have been to reduce food waste, some amount of fruits and vegetables, no matter how small, always ends up in the bin. There are ways […]

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Shower of the Future, Saves Water and Electricity

Mila Luleva — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:28:58 +0000

The Shower of the Future is a smart technology, which lets you spend as much time as you need under running water, yet limits your water use to only five liters and saves energy. Fresh water shortage is quite a pressing issue these days, but regardless of how much effort we all put to save […]

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Cellulose Nanopaper – Strong, Light and Green Alternative to Metals

Mila Luleva — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:25:01 +0000

New paper-like material made of cellulose is much stronger than metal, and could one day replace it. Alternative eco-friendly materials that can replace metals are of high demand. The reasons behind this are many, including polluting mining processes, expensive manufacturing of products made of metals, and of course, the need of making everything lighter yet […]

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Evaporation as New Source of Renewable Energy

Satya Sivani — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 20:17:36 +0000

Evaporation is now becoming a source of renewable energy with the help of bacteria and the two new devices, Evaporation engine, and Moisture mill, invented by the Columbia University scientists. While solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, bio-energies are widely known, there are also other sources which are, now, less reliable as both research and technology in those […]

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Batteriser Prolongs The Life of Disposable Batteries

Mila Luleva — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:49:02 +0000

Batteriser is a thin metal sleeve-like gadget, which wraps around any standard battery, making its life up to eight times longer. It turns out that every disposable battery is recognized by electronic devices as “usable” only when it generates more than 1.5 Volts. As soon as this number drops by as little as 0.1 of […]

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Moth Eyes and Lotus Leaves Inspire New Ultra-Efficient Solar Panel Coating

Mila Luleva — Tue, 19 May 2015 18:53:33 +0000

Moths’ eyes and lotus leaves inspire scientists from Oak Ridge National Lab to develop a water repellent solar panel coating that boosts the efficiency by up to six percent. A team from Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) developed an anti-reflective, water repellent, self-cleaning, highly durable and fog resistant coating for solar panels. The coating comprises of nanoscale […]

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GoSun, a Solar Grill That Cooks Even On Cloudy Days

Mila Luleva — Mon, 04 May 2015 10:49:44 +0000

GoSun, a solar cooker that keeps grilling, baking and boiling even on a rainy day, is storming through its Kickstarter campaign. Cooking stoves, electric ovens, gas grills, barbeques, even outdoor coal grills, all have their limitations. For starters, everything electric consumes quite a lot of energy in order to cook you a pleasant meal, and even […]

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Drumi – The Pedal-Powered Laundry Washer That Doesn’t Need Electricity

Satya Sivani — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:52:37 +0000

Drumi, a pedal-powered portable washer-dryer presented at the 2015 Green Living Show at Toronto, doesn’t need electricity, battery, generator or a solar panel. Ever worried about the big pile of dirty laundry staring at you just after you came home from a happy camping? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could wash dirty laundry on the move […]

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New Self-Powered Video Camera Can Work Indefinitely

Satya Sivani — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:34:49 +0000

World’s first self-powered video camera, which can convert the incident light from its object into its input power, was invented by a computer scientist, Shree K. Nayar at Columbia University. The scientists took advantage of the capability of a pixel photodiode to operate both in photoconductive and photovoltaic modes. It works in photoconductive mode while recording […]

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Solar Cooling System Preserves Food Without Electricity

Mila Luleva — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:45:57 +0000

An eco-friendly and cheap cooling system developed by a Mexican researcher uses solar energy to maintain temperature of food and water at nine degrees Celsius for three months. Refrigerating systems have been under the spot light ever since they were found guilty of polluting the atmosphere with the Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), causing a depletion in the ozone layer. […]

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Energy Efficient, Long-Lasting Graphene LED Bulb Hits the Market

Mila Luleva — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:07:13 +0000

The very first product made of graphene to hit the market is a highly efficient, energy saving and long lasting LED light bulb. The long wait for a viable product made of the ultra-strong, super-thin carbon nanosheet- graphene, is finally over. Scientists from University of Manchester, UK, the birthplace of the wonder material, designed a […]

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NASA Using Distributed Propulsion for Electric Airplane

Satya Sivani — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:22:51 +0000

An announcement made by NASA changes our perspective of Airplane wings and propulsion system. NASA announced its distributed propulsion design on which it was working since last year. The project, named Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology (LEAPTech) was taken up by NASA in cooperation with Joby Aviation and Empirical Systems Aerospace (ESAero). To build electric planes, […]

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Wind and Solar Powered Streetlights Shine at Night in Spain

Mila Luleva — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:34:24 +0000

A new streetlights concept by a team of Spanish researchers and entrepreneurs, holds the potential to revolutionize the energy efficiency plans of urban environments. What makes the new design different and much more promising than existing ones, is the fact that these lights are powered by both solar and wind. One of the biggest challenges […]

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Plant-e Produces Electricity from Green Plants

Mila Luleva — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:32:55 +0000

Plants have once again made it to the green news, and surprisingly, the main reason this time is not their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Dutch start-up Plant-e is currently harvesting the energy from plants and using it to power street lights, Wi-Fi spots and charge cell phones. Protecting world’s vegetation cover is unquestionably one of the […]

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Nanosheets of Manganese Dioxide to Revolutionize Li-S Batteries

Mila Luleva — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:46:05 +0000

Researchers from University of Waterloo might just have found the missing ingredient that kept lithium-sulfur batteries from becoming the one and only desired energy storage for electric vehicles. It is a nanomaterial that is cheap, light and efficient. It is quite well established by now that although sulfur in lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries ticks all […]

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Multi-functional GreenBox Improves Your Pizza Experience

Mila Luleva — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 10:36:20 +0000

It is Saturday. And what does Saturday mean? Pizza night! Or was that Friday? Anyway. Pick up the phone, call the precious number and in less than an hour you will have the cheesy goodness right at your door step in a not very eco-friendly manner. Thankfully, The GreenBox is here to make this whole experience […]

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Top 5 Super Green Technologies at Consumer Electronics Show 2015

Mila Luleva — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:32:10 +0000

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015 held this week in Las Vegas has provided a platform for numerous emerging inventors and established technology makers to showcase the latest green breakthroughs and innovative ideas. As it is every year, the annual event is seen as the place where the technologies of the future are introduced to the […]

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Hybrid-Electric Airplane Built by Boeing

Mila Luleva — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:24:54 +0000

Many would argue that hybrid-electric vehicles nowadays are the wisest choice. Clean and smooth, yet minus the fear that the battery will run out half way between charging stations. If this is the case with cars, it is only logical that same goes for planes, right? Well, this is what the guys from Boeing thought when […]

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Different Kind of Solar Power Helps Steer Kepler Spacecraft

Ari Luis — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 08:33:03 +0000

‘Tis the season for recycling – gifts, food and what have you. ‘Tis also the season to be jolly as well, as dead satellites are reborn and reveal to us faraway planets and stars, not just the one in the East. Last year, NASA wrote off the Kepler space telescope. However, astronomers and scientists found […]

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Fresh Water for Seaside Communities this Christmas

Ari Luis — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 01:05:36 +0000

Probably one of the most frustrating situations to be in is being marooned on an island in the middle of the ocean without fresh water. That is why the ancient mariner says, “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” It’s a worse feeling than being in the middle of the desert, because according to […]

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Kenyan Teenager Builds a Human Poop Bio-reactor to Generate Biogas

Mila Luleva — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:32:08 +0000

Brilliant high school student designed a system that can generate clean energy using the content of his classmates’ poop. What is more, this same energy is then used in cooking of their lunch. Living in the so-called “developed” world makes us forget sometimes that things like clean tap water, toilet flush, or a lunch meal at […]

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Green, Not Greed, Brings You Victory in the New ‘Landscape Game’

Mila Luleva — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:26:44 +0000

New digital and green take on Monopoly called the “Landscape Game” is now available in a fully functioning beta version. It makes players think, act, plan and develop eco-strategies and purchases by finding balance between ecological and economic trade-offs. The world of gaming is a slightly mysterious, often considered highly controversial one, and at at the same time […]

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How to Convert Your Car to Solar in One Easy Step

Mila Luleva — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:16:01 +0000

Many of the leading car manufacturers are now looking towards solar and releasing models with solar cells on the roofs that allow charging on the go. Unfortunately, these do not come cheap, and are still out of reach for many of us, who secretly wish there was a way to swap the roof of our ‘Average […]

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Bio-plastics Made of Fructose Disappear as We Please

Mila Luleva — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:18:38 +0000

The solution to plastic pollution might just have been discovered. A team of US scientists developed a material out of fructose that functions just like regular plastics but it breaks down as soon as it is exposed to a specific type of UV light. Plastic pollution is everywhere around us, it has even established itself […]

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Smart Watch Made of Paper?

Ari Luis — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:16:04 +0000

The smart watch is seen as the next big thing. That is why Samsung, LG, Sony and Pebble beat Apple to the punch in introducing their respective Android-based smart watches, they tried to gain market share ahead of the Cupertino-based tech giant’s release of the Apple Watch. The early incarnations of the smart watches don’t […]

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Universe Conspires to Keep Us Cool with Photonics

Ari Luis — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:07:57 +0000

Every cloud has a silver lining, or so they say. So these researchers from Stanford University took a cue from that and tried to make a paint to help keep buildings cool with photonics radiative cooling. Say what? It’s basically a mirror that reflects heat from the sun away from buildings. But it doesn’t stop […]

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Bio-Electric Hybrid Aircraft Needs Support on Kickstarter

Mila Luleva — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:06:55 +0000

Let’s all combine forces to help the world’s first ever hybrid eco-friendly aircraft become a reality. A team of UK engineers hope to raise enough money through crowdfunding, in order to develop their near-silent, non-polluting, bio-electric triplane. The Bio-Electric-Hybrid-Aircraft (BEHA) is a creation of a team from the engineering university at Cranfield, UK, and […]

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Solar Cells and LEDs Get an Extra Boost from Silicon

Mila Luleva — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:09:50 +0000

US scientists discovered the ability of a special form of silicon to both conduct electricity, and absorb and emit light. The unique property of the element makes it extremely suitable for use in new generation solar cells and LED lights. This form of silicon is not the one that we find in great abundance in […]

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Eating Local, As in From Right in Your Kitchen

Ari Luis — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:54:34 +0000

While eating local is a fuzzy idea, the Urban Cultivator takes the cake in any definition of eating local because you grow your own food right in a cabinet in your kitchen. You hear the doctor or your mom tell you to eat more greens because it’s supposed to be healthy for you. But then, […]

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Green Overpass Absorbs Traffic Emissions, Turns Them Into Biomass

Mila Luleva — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:12:28 +0000

No city official can now say that there is not enough space for biomass growth in the urban environment. A team of inventors demonstrated an algal farm greening up a highway overpass in Switzerland. Made of transparent pipes, the system is designed to absorb carbon dioxide emissions from the traffic below. During the annual Villes et […]

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Next Generation LCD Screens Display 3D Images Without Electricity

Mila Luleva — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:56:43 +0000

Future LCD screens might not require continuous power to project and maintain images. What is more, the new technology might even allow display in 3D. Does it sound like a sci-fi story? Well, it isn’t. There is even a functioning prototype to demonstrate the feasibility. Thinking of what the technology of the future might look like, […]

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First Ever Invisible Solar Panels Developed by the Swiss

Mila Luleva — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:13:36 +0000

Lately, a lot has been said about the way solar panels look, how much space they occupy, how heavy they are on house rooftops. All of this is clearly made to show solar as being bad. Now, a Swiss firm found a way to silence the deniers by developing the first ever invisible solar panels. The ultimate […]

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Dutch Designer Extracts Smog Particles, Turns Them into Jewelry

Mila Luleva — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:38:19 +0000

Air pollution in the Chinese capital of Beijing is becoming a major disaster. Cutting down emissions from traffic and industry is no longer sufficient, and thankfully governmental officials acknowledge it. They set tough targets, pushing people to come up with incredible innovations, just like turning deadly smog particles into jewelry. Some time ago we told […]

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Hemp-based Aircraft Fueled with Hemp Bio-diesel to Revolutionize the World

Mila Luleva — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:10:37 +0000

The first of its kind airplane made and powered with hemp, is due to be built next year. The concept comes from the environmentalist Derek Kesek, who just signed a contract for construction of the machine with a plane manufacturer from Florida. People are discovering more and more properties of hemp, the proud member of the […]

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First Ever Superficial CO2 Turbine Turns Emissions into Power

Mila Luleva — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:19:35 +0000

Five of the world’s greatest energy and technology giants have teamed up to construct a demonstration power plant, which will host the first ever superficial carbon dioxide turbine. The technology is part of a unique carbon dioxide power cycle, which is a true revelation in the field of carbon capture. The design and development of the turbine […]

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Super Affordable and Compact d.light Solar Lantern Exceeds Users Expectations

Mila Luleva — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:49:13 +0000

All camping and hiking lovers know that one of the most essential gadgets that every backpack should contain is a good light source of some sort. Most such techs, however, are quite pricey, need a socket for charging or are well too bulky. But most, does not mean all. Check out the d.light S2 lantern, […]

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MIT Researchers Develop The Perfect Solar Absorber

Mila Luleva — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:20:49 +0000

Advances in the field of solar emerge every day, with new technologies popping up on the market all the time. Arguably, one of the main reasons for this is that engineers and scientists have been trying to get closer to creating the perfect material that absorbs all incoming solar light, without radiating energy. But now […]

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Ambio Is a Cool Bacteria-Powered Lamp

Mila Luleva — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:33:11 +0000

We have covered quite a number of stories that tell about the super efficient or super affordable lamp or a bulb, which will revolutionize your home. We have also told you about bioluminescent plants that could one day replace lighting systems. But we have not yet told you about a combination of the two- a […]

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Genetically Modified E.Coli Generate Renewable Propane

Mila Luleva — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:59:00 +0000

Bio-engineering techniques are rapidly becoming a very powerful tool for scientists to make bacteria produce virtually anything. The latest invention comes from a Finnish research team, who modified E.coli bacteria in a way that they can generate propane. The study appeared yesterday in Nature Communications, and describes how genetically altered bacteria can be turned into […]

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Pedal Your Way to a Free Organic Ice-Cream at Peddler’s Creamery, LA

Mila Luleva — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:12:04 +0000

One of the many reasons why I love my bike is that after using it for 15 mins or so it can miraculously get rid of the terrible guilty feeling I get when I reach for the ultimate and my most favourite treat- the ice-cream. This is also why when I heard about Peddler’s Creamery, a place where two […]

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Travel House Made of Water Tanks Can Be Pulled with a Bike

Mila Luleva — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:18:12 +0000

Are you a fan of caravans, but you feel limited by the need to always sit behind the car wheel when you want to take your shelter to the perfect location? Well, this is no longer a problem. Meet Taku Tanku, the super light caravan made of water tanks, which can be transported by a bike, […]

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Transparent Solar Concentrators to Produce Electricity Unnoticed

Mila Luleva — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:22:57 +0000

The time when solar concentrators can be placed on the surface of windows or cellphone screens, without disturbing their initial purpose, has finally come. A team of scientists from Michigan State University (MSU) developed a transparent and colourless solar concentrator, which is much cheaper than any of the previously developed technology of this kind. Ever since […]

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Plug-and-play Nuclear Thermal Battery to Power Remote Areas

Mila Luleva — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:28:29 +0000

Boston based start-up has developed a small scale nuclear reactor, or a nuclear thermal battery as they call it, which has the potential to produce enough electricity to power 2,000 homes. It can function on multiple fuel sources, and its waste can be reused. Nuclear power plants did not live up to everyone’s expectations and deliver […]

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Floating Solar Powered Pop-Up Restaurants To Transform Singapore’s Waterfront

Mila Luleva — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:40:08 +0000

A team of creative architects has taken the idea of pop-up restaurants to another, much higher and much greener level. They designed the ultimate centres, entirely powered by solar, that can float on the water surface and take you by surprise, while you’re enjoying the wonderful sunset on the coast. The Solar Orchid project is […]

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Tattoo-Battery Powered by Sweat Could Charge Wearable Electronics

Mila Luleva — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:41:04 +0000

Most of the incredible scientific discoveries are made by accident, especially these that sound crazy and slightly hard-to-believe. The latest invention of this kind is a bio-battery powered by human sweat. The team behind it is a group of scientist from University of California, San Diego, led by Dr Wenzhao Jia. Although the concept of […]

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Teenager Designs a Unique Portable Device to Purify Water and Generate Electricity

Mila Luleva — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:26:29 +0000

Regardless of how many times it happens, it is always fascinating to read about a teenager, who has done something incredible. This time the star of the show is the 17-year-old Australian student Cynthia Sin Nga Lam, who found herself in the top 15 of the Google Science Fair, with her portable device that generates electricity […]

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MIT Researchers Develop Cheap Material to Convert Solar into Steam

Mila Luleva — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:07:14 +0000

Scarcity of water, greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, raising electricity bills, all these factors that send an alarming message to our brain, triggering that guilty feeling inside, every time we go for a relaxing steam room time. But this might soon be over, as MIT researchers developed a new material that generates steam only […]

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Top 5 Solar Technologies That Save Lives Around the World

Mila Luleva — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:22:42 +0000

For most people in the Western world, solar power is seen as the alternative method for energy generation that many choose because it is clean, efficient and could save money in a long run. However, millions around the world do not have the comfort of having this choice, and they solely rely on solar technologies […]

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Breakthrough Battery Technology for Gadgets and EVs in the Making at J-CESR

Mila Luleva — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:49:31 +0000

With numerous developments in the field of alternative energy technologies, and incredible boost in sales of electric vehicles, the pressure is all on energy storage. It is true that innovations in this field are lacking, but with the new Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, which provides everything that specialists might need, the ever-so-needed breakthrough is […]

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Electron-eating Bacteria Open Up New Possibilities For Electricity Generation

Mila Luleva — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:22:51 +0000

Geobacter and Shewanella bacteria have become popular over the past decade not only because of their food source- naked electrons, but also because they have incredible electron transfer capabilities. These organisms have huge potential for alternative electricity generation, and as it turns out, they are not at all one of a kind. Various research teams have used […]

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MIT Students 3D Print Ice Cream, But Is It Green?

Mila Luleva — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:31:51 +0000

Ever since 3D printing hype began to grow, scientists have been questioning the claim that the process is environmentally friendly. However, while this debate is still ongoing, 3D printing technology is bombarding us with incredible results. The technology holds a great potential to form the basis of a green industrial revolution. Initially used in manufacturing objects, […]

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The COOLEST Cooler Makes Cocktails, Plays Music and More While Chilling

Mila Luleva — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:55:16 +0000

The past few decades have clearly been the years of great inventions, and it is now becoming increasingly difficult for anyone to come up with a brand new technology, which the world has not seen before. Now, however, the trend is slowly shifting from inventing to improving existing technology, and many are breaking new grounds […]

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The First Ever Solar Powered Tuk-Tuk to Take Its Inventor from India to London

Mila Luleva — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:37:04 +0000

If you are still questioning whether solar can supply enough power for a vehicle to go on for miles and miles, Naveen Rabelli, an Indian electrical engineer, is here to take all your doubts away. He is going to attempt reaching London from Bangalore India only with his electricity and solar powered tuk-tuk. The new […]

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Solar-Powered Autonomous Robot Monitors Agricultural Fields to Boost Yield

Mila Luleva — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:50:10 +0000

Maybe we do not realize it, but to have our freshly made salad on the dining table every day, many farmers have invested a lot of energy, a lot of resources and have taken quite a risk, considering the rapidly changing climate situation. To minimize risk, and optimize production, Australian scientists developed the Ladybird farm […]

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Low Cost Dust Sensor for Smartphones Monitors Air Pollution in Real Time

Mila Luleva — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:45:52 +0000

Our smartphones are increasingly becoming even smarter, simply because it is so much easier to carry an “all-in-one” pocket device, instead of ten different ones. So, would you be happy to know that your phone can generate an urban pollution map, with the help of a small attachable sensor, or would this be just another […]

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