Image: Blobs, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
Last Wednesday was #ShowYourStripes Day. These are Ireland's stripes. There will be no more blue stripes, but we can control how red they get with climate action now.
Image: YouTube, Collaborative Crop Research Program
Farmers and researchers in Niger have conducted trials of urine fertiliser from 2014 to 2016 and achieved a 30% increase in pearl millet yield compared to standard fertiliser. Urine fertiliser is also a much more environmentally sustainable alternative to regular fertiliser.
Image: Carnegie Mellon University
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an optical microphone that uses lasers to measure sound vibrations on materials to reconstruct the isolated audio.
Image: Electrek, Volvo
Volvo is testing new hydrogen powered haulage trucks which can be charged by 12kg of hydrogen in 7.5 minutes fir 4 hours of operation. Volvo expects to commercialise hydrogen powered vehilces by 2025.
Image: Advanced Space
An upcoming satellite moon mission launched by private company Rocket Labs and funded by NASA will deliver a satellite in a near-rectilinear halo orbit around the moon. The mission is designed to test this stable orbit around the moon, which will later be used by NASA to launch a lunar space station.
Image: YouTube, Paweł Zadrożniak
Version 3.0 of the computer hardware orchestra Floppotron now sports 512 floppy disks, 16 hard drives, and 4 scanners.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
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