Students Create Edible Tortilla Tape to Keep Your Wraps Wrapped
University students at Johns Hopkins university have created an edible tortilla tape to keep your messy burritos holding together as you eat.
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World's First Ocean-Assisted Carbon Removal Plant Launched in Hawaii
Carbon capture from the oceans has major advantages over taking it out of the air, something that Hawai'i-based Heimdal is pioneering.
Portable Wind Turbine Fits in Your Backpack to Charge All Your Electronics - And Only Adds 3 Lbs
40-watt portable wind turbine allows portable electricity wherever you go, hiking, camping, or homesteading.
Scientists Power a Computer Using Only Algae and Daylight to Make the Electricity
Researchers at Cambridge have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year.
New Online Map Shows You the Local Mosquito Forecast for the Week
SC Johnson and Google Earth have partnered to create a scientific mosquito database that uses weather and entomology data to pinpoint numbers
Plants Have Been Grown in Lunar Soil For The First Time Ever
Food has been grown in soil collected from the moon for the first time, paving the way for human migration across the solar system.
Handheld Device Painlessly Identifies Skin Cancer Without Biopsy Scars
Stevens Institute of Technology uses millimeter-wave imaging to slash rate of unnecessary biopsies, it's handheld and painless.
Helicopter Successfully Catches Earth-Bound Rocket in a 'Supersonic Ballet'
Rocket Lab deployed 34 satellites to orbit before the 'Electron booster stage' was successfully snagged by helicopter on its return to Earth.
Bronx Housing Complex Comes With Giant Machine Stomach to Turn All Food Waste Into Fertilizer
An on-site aerobic digester that can turn 1,100 pounds of food scraps into 220 pounds of daily fertilizer is coming to the Bronx at The Peninsula.
Parkinson's Disease Symptoms 'Reversed' by Mini Implant Bringing Hope
For 10% of all patients, a 3-hour survey to implant a tiny battery could restore patients' movement from struggling to walk to playing golf.
New MRI Machine Offers Breakthrough Advancements in Almost Every Aspect
New technology is breaking down five of the most common problems/barriers between patients and the accuracy of the MRI machine.
Turning Seawater Into Drinking Water - With the Push of a Button
MIT researchers build a portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without the need for filters or high-pressure pumps.
Texas Scientists Have Created a Protein That Breaks Down Plastic Bottles
A 'pac-man' protein that gobbles up plastic and breaks it down could open the door to eliminating billions of tons of landfill waste, say Texas researchers.
MIT's New Paper Thin Speakers Can Cover Any Surface to Turn Your Room Into a Concert Hall
The flexible, thin-film MIT device has the potential to make any surface into a low-power, high-quality audio source.
Congolese Nun Overcomes Blackouts by Becoming Electrician to Create Hydroelectric Plant
In the town of Miti, Congo DRC, blackouts are common, so a convent found a clever nun and sent her to engineering school.
New Hydrogen Fuel Cells Use Cheap Iron Instead of Costly Platinum for Green Vehicles
Researchers at Imperial College London develop a hydrogen fuel cell that uses iron instead of rare and costly platinum, enabling greater use of the technology.
French Town to Light its Streets With Bacteria Luminescence That Needs No Electricity
A French town has invested €100,000 in a company looking to replace LED street lighting with tubes of bioluminescent bactera.
'Radical' Solar Breakthrough Allows Energy to Now Be Stored for Up to 18 Years, Say Scientists
With this new device and method, Swedish sunlight was absorbed, stored in water, shipped to China, and converted to electricity.
Ultra Efficient 'Tandem' Solar Panels Ditch the Silicon to Absorb More of the Sun's Spectrum With Less Energy
German scientists have published details of their new solar panel, calling it the world's most efficient of its type, using a wider spectrum.
Startup Designs Prefab Facades That Turn Energy-Sucking Buildings Into Power Providers
The panels which install in 20 minutes, were able to make the most inefficient buildings in Germany carbon-neutral.
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