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Plug-and-play Nuclear Thermal Battery to Power Remote Areas
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...
Psychological Trick Makes People Give Up Parking Spots In Favour of Bikes
How would you feel if your local government decides to remove parking spots and convert them into bike lanes? Apparently, it is only a...
Lithium-ion Batteries Live Longer with Added Pinch of Salt
One of the greatest limitations of lithium-ion, or for that matter any other metal-based battery, regardless of how perfectly it is made, is the...
New Polymer Absorbs Carbon Dioxide Under Pressure
Converting fossil fuels into hydrogen seems to be picking up quite a speed, with scientists looking for ways to make use of the petrol-producing...
Floating Solar Powered Pop-Up Restaurants To Transform Singapore’s Waterfront
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...
Cheap Portable 3D Printed Wind Turbine Generates Clean Electricity and Saves Lives
Only a few months after the great success of Windpax, the portable wind turbine that managed to raise almost double the amount that the...
Apple Stops the Use of Two Toxic Chemicals in Assembling iPhone
In recent years, the incredible over-production of bigger (and smaller) and better electronic gadgets, has triggered huge debates over e-waste dump sites and exposure...
Tattoo-Battery Powered by Sweat Could Charge Wearable Electronics
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...
Building a New Car, Even a Tesla, is Harder Than Ever
Today’s drivers expect damn-near-perfection when getting into their second-biggest investment, an automobile, and Tesla Motors may have it more difficult than most other automakers.
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Renewable Energy Taking Over
We’ve already seen how renewable energy, in some places at least, is becoming cheaper, but hasn’t begun to take the place of fossil fuels.
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