Thin-film solar cell vendor Hanergy Holding Group has signed an agreement with bike-sharing company MTbike to integrate solar panels into the body of more than 10 million bicycles in the next three years.
Continue reading… “Solar Panels to be Integrated into 10 Million Bicycles in China”
Managing wild animals in remote areas requires accurate estimates of their numbers. Machine-vision drones can help.
Continue reading… “Machine-vision drones monitor animals in the African savanna”
When blockchains first appeared nearly a decade ago as the technical backbone of Bitcoin, the world’s leading cryptocurrency, they seemed to offer the masses a way to cut out the financial middleman. But now the big banks and other industry players are finding ways to spin the new tool to their advantage.
Continue reading… “Wall Street firms to move trillions to blockchains in 2018”
When 17-year-old Quattro Musser hangs out with friends, they don’t drink beer or cruise around in cars with their dates. Rather, they stick to G-rated activities such as rock-climbing or talking about books.
A growing body of research debunks the idea that school quality is the main determinant of economic mobility.
Continue reading… “Education isn’t the key to a good income”
As edible, affordable lab-grown meat remains out of reach, a tiny start-up might have found a faster route to dinner tables.
Continue reading… “The advantages of test-tube tuna”
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (CNN)Women in Saudi Arabia have been celebrating the news that they will finally be able to drive, a landmark step that brings the conservative kingdom in line with the rest of the world and will allow many more women to work.
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Owning a yellow cab has left Issa Isac in deep debt and facing a precarious future.
Continue reading… “Taxi medallions, once a safe investment, now drag owners into debt”
Autonomous air taxi service Volocopter just had its first test flight in Dubai.
Continue reading… “Dubai just tested its flying drone taxi for the first time”
Scientists are designing materials that are a thousand times smaller than the width of a hair.
Known as nanomaterials or nanoparticles, some could help treat diseases.
Continue reading… “How diseases can be targeted using nanotechnology – and why it’s difficult”
Stimulation of the vagus nerve allows patient who had been in a persistant vegetative state for 15 years to track objects with his eyes and respond to simple requests.
Continue reading… “Nerve implant ‘restores consciousness’ to man in vegetative state”
We’ve officially hit peak ICO. Estonia, a small country in Northern Europe, just floated the idea of potentially raising money by issuing a token called “estcoins“.
Continue reading… “This European country may hold an ICO and issue its own cryptocurrency”