ITER: Start of new project in France paves way for fusion energy era
[July 28, 2020: ITER] French President Emmanuel Macron and leaders from the European Union, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the...
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Joseph Shavit
Jul 28, 2020
Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior
[July 28, 2020: Virgin Galactic] Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or “the Company”), a vertically...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 28, 2020
Text messaging: The next gen of therapy in mental health
[July 28, 2020: Dartmouth University] In the U.S., it is estimated that approximately 19 percent of all adults have a diagnosable mental...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 28, 2020
Could We Achieve Interstellar Travel Using Only Known Physics?
[July 28, 2020: Forbes] For as long as human beings have been watching the night sky, we’ve dreamed of visiting other worlds and truly...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 27, 2020
Your next White Castle slider could be cooked by a robot
[July 27, 2020: Engadget] While robotic short-order cooks have been in development for a few years, their use in actual customer-facing...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 27, 2020
Europe's 2050 'Green Deal' plans boosted by radical innovation
[July 27, 2020: EuroNews] As Europe sets itself the goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent, there will be changes to where...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 26, 2020
How the world’s smelliest fruit could power your phone
[July 26, 2020: BBC Future] They are the beating heart of our modern portable technology – packets of energy that we can charge from a...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 26, 2020
MIT researchers create reusable face mask comparable to N95 respirator
[July 25, 2020: ABC 7 Chicago] Nurses and doctors have gone to creative extremes to reuse the same masks, gloves and scrubs they need to...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 25, 2020
Scientists successfully stored 'Wizard of Oz' into DNA; could lead to the future of data storage
[July 25, 2020: University of Texas] A team of interdisciplinary researchers has discovered a new technique to store information in DNA...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 24, 2020
Wearable haptics simulate sense of touch in virtual reality
[July 24, 2020: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne] In the virtual world, the objects you pick up do not exist: you can see that...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 24, 2020
Lego-inspired bone and soft tissue repair with tiny, 3D-printed bricks
[July 24, 2020: Oregon Health & Science University] Tiny, 3-D-printed bricks have been designed to heal broken bones—and could one day...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 24, 2020
Facebook bots to combat bad behavior
[July 24, 2020: TechXplore] As the world's largest social network, Facebook provides endless hours of discussion, entertainment, news,...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 23, 2020
Heroic robot that fought Notre-Dame fire now takes on COVID-19
[July 23, 2020: Design Products and Applications] Remotely controlled and highly modular autonomous robots are proving to be valuable...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 21, 2020
Cargill commits to restoring 600 billion liters of water by 2030
[July 21, 2020: Cargill Inc.] Reliable access to clean water is essential for people and agriculture. Increasingly, poor water...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 21, 2020
This New, Non-Cuttable Material Is Virtually Indestructible
[July 20, 2020: Popular Mechanics] A new material called Proteus is billed as just 15 percent the density of steel, but completely...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 20, 2020
Can This Game-Changing Innovation Get Live Theatre Back Before the Pandemic Ends?
[July 20, 2020: Playbill] As the theatre industry comes to terms with the idea that Broadway will not return until winter 2021 (at the...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 20, 2020
Innovative app brings biblical history together with modern information
[July 20, 2020: Jerusalem Post] While the stories in the Tanach (24 books of the Hebrew Bible) may be ancient, they are widely read...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 20, 2020
Innovative program in Milwaukee helps business owners of color thrive — even amid a pandemic
[July 20, 2020: EfficientGov] As small businesses continue to struggle under the weight of the pandemic, cities are having to think...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 19, 2020
Europe’s biggest 3D printer helps create an entire two-story house
[July 16, 2020: Digital Trends] While 3D printing might be most commonly used to print smaller-sized models or prototypes, that doesn’t...
Joseph Shavit
Jul 19, 2020
How Ships Could Produce an Unlimited Amount of Their Own Fuel
[July 17, 2020: Popular Mechanics] Scientists have taken a major step by improving a process for turning seawater into hydrocarbons. The...
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