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Need a textarea to expand automatically when text is typed in it? Then Simon Willison’s TILs blog post is for you.

Web Dev

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Analyse Green Impact of Software

Cast Software offer a tool that can analyse the green impact of your software by modelling its data and processing usage.

Web Dev

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Newly Discovered Free Floating Planet Pairs

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the existence of free floating pairs of Jupiter size planets, unconnected to any stars in the Orion nebula, nicknamed JuMBOs (Jupiter Mass Binary Objects).

Space

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Passive Water Desalination Using Solar Power

Engineers at MIT and in China have developed a passive water desalination solution using solar power that produces 4 to 6 litres of filtered water per hour, without salt clogging up the system using currents that mimic ocean currents.

Innovation

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How To Build A Forest

Catherine Cleary of The Irish Times tells the fantastic story about how her and her husband decided to build a forest by buying the cheapest suitable land they could find and plant 27 acres of native trees as a form of Climate Action.

Life

Motivation

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Detecting How Gravity Influences Antimatter

Scientists at CERN developed an experiment to test if gravity influences anti-matter in the same manner as with matter. The elaborate technical experiment found, using lots of magnets, that anti-matter is indeed influenced by gravity.

Science

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Oasis ADHD Visor

University of Limerick graduate Joël Olympio was named the national winner of the James Dyson Award in Ireland for his Oasis visor, which is designed to reduce visual distractions for ADHD sufferers using a film that dims the wearer's mid-to-far peripheral vision

Innovation

Science

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Plastic Eating Bacteria

Researchers at North Carolina State University have engineered new bacteria that can break down Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic while in saltwater.

Science

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Aviation Emissions Scenarios

Hannah Ritchie published an excellent two-part explainer on the reality of aviation emissions and how the sector can respond to the Climate Emergency. Part one looks at various demand scenarios coupled with action scenarios of varying degrees and methods of reduction. Part two investigates the current landscape of aviation biofuels and the scale at which it would need to increase to meet the different demand and reduction scenarios.