80% of the women say they love their work, yet many still report barriers to getting to the top.
Women in the U.S. who are working in the science, engineering, and tech fields are 45% more likely than their male peers to leave the industry within the year, according to recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation.
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The International Energy Agency has come out with an in-depth analysis of Africa’s energy sector. According to the IEA report, there are 620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa who don’t have any electricity at all — and fixing that could require burning a lot more fossil fuels.
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India plans to offer subsidized LED lamps to households to reduce power demand and improve energy efficiency.
Measures have been initiated by the ministry of power in India to keep the promise of Prime Minister Modi to provide electricity supply and lamps to all households in the country by the end of the decade. The latest measure is aimed at households and energy efficiency.
Continue reading… “India to boost demand-side energy efficiency by selling $6 LED lamp for $0.16”
A two-way communication platform would allow plug-in electric vehicles to work with power grids.
Ford Motor Company and seven global automakers have joined together for a first-ever test of technology that will allow utility companies to communicate with plug-in electric vehicles via the cloud, an advancement that would help manage energy use and improve the efficiency of the power grid.
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Even though wind power uses up to 14 times more iron, the world wins on a switch to low-carbon energy.
A global low-carbon energy economy could actually double electricity supply by 2050, while also reducing air and water pollution, according to new research. The first ever global life-cycle assessment of clean energy sources shows that a renewable system could supply the world’s entire electricity needs by mid-century, writes Tim Radford.
Continue reading… “100% of the world’s power could be supplied by renewables by 2050”
The 2D material is known as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2).
A transparent, flexible material only as thick as an atom could one day power our electronics, according to a paper published to be published in Nature. And the best part is it could generate electricity from walking, running and other everyday motions.
Blazing fast speeds will bring about the kind of connectivity people have been dreaming about for a long time.
If the Internet were 100 times faster than it is today, how would this super-high-speed connectivity affect the economy, health care and education?
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It could take up to the year 2030 for physical money to disappear from Sweden’s system altogether.
Four out of five purchases in Sweden are paid for electronically or by card according to a new report from the Swedish news organization, The Local. They also report that Swedes are using electronic payments 260 times per person, per year.
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“There are almost five jobs for every one web developer.”
Coding boot camps are quietly emerging at the new vocational school for the digital age. This new educational institution is devoted to creating much needed software developers.
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The frozen pills take the place of fecal transplants.
A new study has found that just two days of a treatment with poop in pill form can cure a dangerous infection that kills 14,000 Americans per year.
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Electric generator
Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have reported that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.
Continue reading… “World’s thinnest electric generator”
War for developers
The emergence of next-generation social, mobile, analytics and cloud technology has sparked a war for developers able to continue the fast pace of innovation. Enterprises that want to remain in business tomorrow would be wise to make the right changes today.
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