Items of Interest

Private Moon Orbit Mission

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.

Space

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Volvo Hydrogen Hauler Trucks

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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.

Environment

Innovation

Tech

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Optical Microphone

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an optical microphone that uses lasers to measure sound vibrations on materials to reconstruct the isolated audio.

Innovation

Science

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Urine Fertiliser

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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.

Environment

Science

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Exploring Economics

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Exploring Economics is a website with articles, courses & other materials to teach economics with the mission of teaching pluralist economics for a sustainable future.

Business

Environment

Life

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T-POST T-Shirt Magazines

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T-POST is a unique concept that publishes a limited edition t-shirt with a magazine printed on the inside each month.

Design

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Infection Resilient Buildings

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The Royal Academy of Engineering published a report on building health into construction to make infection resilient buildings. The report shows that in the long run, it is cheaper to build better ventilation and lighting into buildings due to increased health and productivity of its users.

Business

Environment

Science

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Entropy & Movement

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Check out this interesting video about entropy and how movement is at the centre of all matter in the universe.

Life

Science

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Google's Sentient Chatbot

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A Google engineer created a chatbot and now thinks it has become sentient. Check out the conversation with the bot that the engineer posted by way of proof.

AI & ML