Engineers at ETH Zurich have developed a passive solar still that can extract 4.6ml of water from the air per day using a 10cm wide surface requiring no power.
Finnish company Arctic Astronautics plan to launch a 10 cm cubed cube satellite with a surface made of coated plywood, to test how wood performs in space as a component material.
a16z surveyed 226 company CEOs in their portfolio about their company's plans around remote and hybrid working post-Covid. Two thirds of companies plan to use a hyrbid working model with employees in the office for off-sites or 1 to 2 days per week.
Last week Blindboy interviewed Dr. Rory Hearne about how state of the housing crisis in Ireland, and how it can be solved. This is a very important podcsat episode.
Researchers at University of Michigan have discovered a technique to detect the build-up of microplastics in the ocean by measuring ocean surface roughness using the Cyclone Global Navigational Satellite System (CYGNSS).
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have developed a nanocrystal ultra-thin film that can be applied to a pair of glasses to convert infrared light light into visible light, allowing the wear to see in the dark.
Compressimage.io is a browser based image compression tool that runs completely in the browser, meaning it works offline, is completely private, and results in zero server side emissions because there is no server!
Smashing Magazine put together a very useful list of starter kits and boilerplates that you can use to build websites quickly, using a number of web languages and frameworks, form PHP to Vue.js.
