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Nuclear fusion could be a source of nearly unlimited electricity — if scientists can stabilize the reactions.

Blue Origin’s founder explains how New Shepard and New Glenn enable humanity’s future in the solar system.

This article originally appeared in the Feb. 25, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine.

Jeff Bezos is not a man of little dreams. The world’s richest person, with an estimated net worth of more than $130 billion, is spending some of his wealth on his space startup, Blue Origin. Much of the attention that the company has received has focused on the billions he’s invested into the company, its plans to fly tourists on its suborbital New Shepard vehicle and its entry into the orbital launch market with its New Glenn rocket.

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Scientists have attributed the flying behaviour of these wingless arthropods to ‘ballooning’, where spiders can be carried thousands of miles by releasing trails of silk that propel them up and out on the wind.

However, the fact that ballooning has been observed when there is no wind to speak of, when skies are overcast and even in rainy conditions, raises the question: how do spiders take off with low levels of aerodynamic drag?

Biologists from the University of Bristol believe they have found the answer.

Although there are still hurdles for the production of the successor to the lithium-ion batteries according to experts, a Chinese start-up has allegedly succeeded in producing solid-state batteries.

After a decade of research, scientists at KU Leuven in Belgium have developed a device that can uses sunlight to produce a record-breaking 250 liters (66 gal) of hydrogen a day.

Take a look at Goodyear’s vision for the future of transport.

Maybe the future of energy and the environment isn’t so bleak.

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