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Jun 6, 2020

World’s First Biosolar Leaf Purifies Air and Produces Plant-Based Food

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Imperial College London has partnered with British startup Arborea to install the world’s first “Biosolar Leaf” technology on its roof. It is first of the kind system to use the microscopic plant to purify the air while producing plant-based food.

Julian Melchiorri CEO of Arborea who pioneered “Biosolar Leaf” technology said – “There has to be a way to feed all the world with healthy and sustainable food by making it the primary choice, not the alternative!”

The system works by growing microscopic plants like blue-green algae, phytoplankton on a solar grid-like layout. In fact, just one acre of “Biosolar Leaf” can remove carbon dioxide and produce breathable oxygen, then, one hundred acres of trees.

Jun 6, 2020

This Insane Robot Tractor Concept Could Be the Future of Farming

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

No, it’s not a sinister transformer. It’s Kubota’s new fully autonomous Dream Tractor.

Jun 5, 2020

Way too many Americans have gargled with bleach, sprayed their bodies with disinfectants to prevent COVID-19

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Nearly 4 in 10 American adults reported engaging in dangerous cleaning practices to prevent COVID-19, such as washing food with bleach, using household disinfecting products on their skin or intentionally inhaling vapors from cleaning products, according to a recent survey.

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) follows an earlier study describing an increase in calls to poison control centers regarding exposure to household cleaners, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jun 2, 2020

Animals that can do math understand more language than we think

Posted by in categories: food, mathematics, sustainability

It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human superiority are sometimes used to justify the ways we treat other animals, in the home, the lab or the factory farm.

Jun 2, 2020

The Age of Unmanned Tractors Is Coming, But Not Without a Fight From Farmers

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Automation will eventually change industrial agriculture as we know it. For some, that’s reason to take action.

May 30, 2020

Drone maker XAG in drive to automate rice farming in China

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones, food, robotics/AI

XAG, one of China’s largest makers of agricultural drones, expects increased automation for planting rice in the country’s farmlands as a way to raise efficiency, while mitigating labour shortage and the threat of Covid-19.

May 30, 2020

Bill Faloon — If Nothing Else Kills Us, Aging Will (Longevity #005)

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May 29, 2020

Agricultural Drone Speeds Chinese Rice Seeding

Posted by in categories: drones, food, sustainability

One of China’s largest agricultural drone companies is helping to overhaul the rice-farming industry.

XAG recently launched a rice-seeding demonstration of seeding via drone at Happy Farms, an agricultural park in Guangdong province.

May 29, 2020

Letting off electrons to cope with metabolic stress

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics, health

Whereas textbooks depict metabolism in perfect homeostasis, disturbances occur in real life. One particularly relevant disturbance, caused by excess food and alcohol consumption and exacerbated by genetics, is reductive stress. New work by Goodman et al. identifies a biomarker of reductive stress and uses a gene therapy solution in mice. This work suggests how exercise and an accessible nutritional technology can synergistically increase catabolism and relieve reductive stress.

May 26, 2020

‘Digital smell’ technology could let us transmit odors in online chats

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, food, internet, neuroscience, virtual reality

“It’s not just about the smell,” said Adrian Cheok, one of the scientists behind the experiments. “It is part of a whole, integrated virtual reality or augmented reality. So, for example, you could have a virtual dinner with your friend through the internet. You can see them in 3D and also share a glass of wine together.”

In real life, odors are transmitted when airborne molecules waft into the nose, prompting specialized nerve cells in the upper airway to fire off impulses to the brain. In the recent experiments, performed on 31 test subjects at the Imagineering Institute in the Malaysian city of Nusajaya, researchers used electrodes in the nostrils to deliver weak electrical currents above and behind the nostrils, where these neurons are found.

The researchers were able to evoke 10 different virtual odors, including fruity, woody and minty.