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Sep 7, 2022

Out of thin air: new solar-powered invention creates hydrogen fuel from the atmosphere

Posted by in categories: innovation, sustainability

Well that’s a game changer.


Researchers have created a solar-powered device that produces hydrogen fuel directly from moisture in the air.

According to its inventors, the prototype produces hydrogen with greater than 99% purity and can work in air that is as dry as 4% relative humidity. The device would allow hydrogen to be produced without carbon emissions even in regions where water on land is scarce, they say.

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Sep 7, 2022

Chennai-based space-tech startup Agnikul Cosmos secures patent for its 3D-printed rocket engine

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, space travel

Unlike conventional rocket engines, which require thousands of parts to be assembled, Agnilet is made in one go with the help of a 3D printing machine.

Sep 7, 2022

Researchers Uncover Method New Method to Boost Quantum Operation Sequences

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

The Quantum Insider (TQI) is the leading online resource dedicated exclusively to Quantum Computing.

Sep 7, 2022

Resting Rich Face

Posted by in category: economics

Your resting expression may reveal your socio-economic status.

Sep 7, 2022

Powerful New Antibody Neutralizes All Known COVID Variants

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Together with a Duke University team led by Dr. Barton Haynes, Alt and Luo then assessed the efficacy of these antibodies. Antibodies from three of the nine lineages were effective in neutralizing the original Wuhan-Hu-1 virus. The SP1-77 antibody and other members of its lineage, in particular, demonstrated extremely wide activity, neutralizing Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and all prior and current Omicron strains.

A new approach to virus neutralization

What caused the SP1-77 antibody to be so broadly neutralizing? Structural studies by a collaborating team led by Bing Chen, Ph.D. and Jun Zhang, Ph.D. at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Haynes group at Duke, showed that SP1-77 works differently from current antibodies (either therapeutic antibodies or those we make in response to current vaccines).

Sep 7, 2022

Using graph-powered analytics to keep track of ESG in the real world

Posted by in categories: business, governance, neuroscience, sustainability

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Editorial Disclosure: The author of this article has a business relationship with James Phare, CEO and founder of Neural Alpha.

What does sustainability actually mean for organizations? Can it be measured, and if yes, how so? Often, these are obvious questions with less-than-obvious answers, even for sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) professionals like James Phare.

Sep 7, 2022

Why established and regulated industries are shifting to cloud services

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, computing

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The last two years saw cloud technology heavily encouraged across almost every sector. For businesses wishing to thrive in the chaos of the pandemic, the move to cloud environments became a necessity amidst the shift to remote work and the frequent inability to access data centers.

As a result, more businesses than ever — including many in established industries such as manufacturing, retail and healthcare — have accelerated their adoption of cloud-first models and strategies. This approach is empowering these industries with more agility and efficiency in what has been a very uncertain time for the world and thus, for business.

Sep 6, 2022

This brutal hacking tool could steal virtually all of your logins

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft logins all reportedly hackable with new EvilProxy service.

Sep 6, 2022

CRISPR breakthrough creates a healthy mouse with only 19 chromosomes

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

These unnecessary experiments can cause another pandemic.


CRISPR has been used to rearrange the chromosomes of lab mice, a world’s first in mammals and a breakthrough in bioengineering.

Sep 6, 2022

High-frequency radio-wave emission by coherent transition radiation of runaway electrons produced by lightning stepped leaders

Posted by in category: climatology

Lightning can produce multiband radio waves and high-energy radiations. Some of them are associated with the formation of lightning leaders. However, their generation mechanisms are not fully understood yet. Based on the understanding of thermal runaway electrons generated at the leader tip, we propose transition radiation of these runaway electrons as an alternative mechanism for producing very-high-frequency radio signals. Transition radiations are induced when runaway electrons cross the interfaces between lightning coronas and the air. By the use of estimated parameters of electron beams emerging from the leader tips, we calculate their coherent transition radiation and find that the energy spectra and radiation powers are consistent with some detection results from stepped leaders and even narrow bipolar events. Moreover, our model also predicts strong THz radiation during the stepped-leader formation. As a standard diagnosis technique of electron bunches, the proposed coherent transition radiation here may be able to reconstruct the actual properties of electron beams in the leader tips, which remains an open question.