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Jul 7, 2021

How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)

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Jul 7, 2021

Iceland’s Four-Day Week Trial Made Workers Happier and More Productive

Posted by in category: futurism

How’s your return to work after Independence Day weekend going?

Jul 7, 2021

Plant-Based Startup’s 3D-Printed Steaks Set For Mass Market

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Novameat is eyeing the expansion of its plant-based 3D-printed steaks since launching its cutting-edge technology three years ago.


A Spanish start-up creating 3D-printed plant-based steaks is eyeing an expansion onto the mass market.

It follows a successful launch last year, and the company has plans to produce 500kg of the vegan meat products per hour.

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Jul 7, 2021

New nanotech will enable a ‘healthy’ electric current production inside the human body

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, nanotechnology

The researchers explain that the development involves a new and very strong biological material, similar to collagen, which is non-toxic and causes no harm to the body’s tissues. The researchers believe that this new nanotechnology has many potential applications in medicine, including harvesting clean energy to operate devices implanted in the body (such as pacemakers) through the body’s natural movements, eliminating the need for batteries.


The study was led by Prof. Ehud Gazit of the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Fleischman Faculty of Engineering and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, along with his lab team, Dr. Santu Bera and Dr. Wei Ji.

Also taking part in the study were researchers from the Weizmann Institute and a number of research institutes in Ireland, China and Australia. As a result of their findings, the researchers received two ERC-POC grants aimed at using the scientific research from the ERC grant that Gazit had previously won for applied technology. The research was published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

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Jul 7, 2021

Huge Supply of Water is Saved From Evaporation When Solar Panels Are Built Over Canals

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

UC Santa Cruz is investigating this method as a possible generator of solar energy that would allow for the saving of 63.5 billion gallons of water from evaporation annually, a massive windfall for a state that sometimes rations water and which regularly suffers from droughts.


If mounted above irrigation canals, the shade of solar panels would reduce evaporation by 63 billion gallons, while generating clean energy.

Jul 7, 2021

Big Oil Knows Hydrogen Is Dead End, But Uses It To Delay Electrification

Posted by in categories: energy, futurism

Reasonable minds may differ on the question of whether hydrogen fuel cells have a place in the clean-energy future. However, it’s a fact that the fossil fuel giants have been heavily hyping hydrogen, and it’s not hard to see why, as the vast majority of hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas.


Oil companies are working hard to appear “green,” but their true efforts are quite clear. Some will do whatever it takes to slow the pace of electrification.

Jul 7, 2021

AI consumes a lot of energy. Hackers could make it consume more

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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The latest generation of neural networks are vulnerable to a new kind of attack that makes them use too much energy.

Jul 7, 2021

How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?

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Jul 6, 2021

Scientists Warn Western U.S. Drought Could Be ‘New Normal’

Posted by in category: habitats

Underground aquifers could be refilled with desalinated ocean water. Also there are numerous ways to bring more water to areas which can revitalize either at scale for cities to even just homes.


Nearly 90 percent of the Western U.S. is gripped by an “apocalyptical” drought that only continues to worsen. Even if you don’t live in the area, it affects you — and what you do affects it.

Jul 6, 2021

Scientists may have cracked the mystery of da Vinci’s DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The artist’s remains are reportedly buried in France’s Chateau d’Amboise. Now, scientists may finally be about to identify them.