Hardwood floors have been a staple of basketball courts for decades, but one German company is selling an unconventional upgrade: glass. While it may sound counterintuitive or dangerous, ASB GlassFloor’s products are already getting…
Category: 3. Tech
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Scientists want to turn moon dust into solar panels
The case for having a permanent base on the moon as a staging point for space exploration has been made many times over the years. Actually constructing a real lunar facility presents numerous significant logistical challenges, not least…
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The Download: What Trump’s tariffs mean for climate tech
US president Donald Trump’s massive, sweeping tariffs sent global stock markets tumbling yesterday, setting the stage for a worldwide trade war and ratcheting up the dangers of a punishing recession.
Experts fear that the US cleantech sector is…
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Watch Antimatter Fall: Scientists Capture Gravity’s Pull With a 3840MP Camera
CERN scientists have built a 3840 MPixel detector using mobile camera sensors to track antihydrogen’s fall in gravity. This could revolutionize antimatter experiments with real-time, ultra-high precision imaging. Using a beam of antihydrogen and…
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Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
Agents are also significantly smarter than the kinds of bots that are typically used to hack into systems. Bots are simple automated programs that run through scripts, so they struggle to adapt to unexpected scenarios. Agents, on the other hand,…
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160x More Power From a Twist: The Metamaterial Breakthrough Redefining Energy Storage
A team of international researchers has developed a groundbreaking class of mechanical metamaterials capable of storing and releasing elastic energy at unprecedented levels. By cleverly twisting rods into a helical shape and integrating them into…
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Jupiter’s Magnetosphere Squashed by Solar Wind
How can the solar wind influence Jupiter’s massive magnetic field? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated…
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Trump’s tariffs will deliver a big blow to climate tech
“It would be hard for me to think of cleantech or climate tech sectors that aren’t facing huge risks,” says Noah Kaufman, senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, who served on the Council of…
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3D-printed ‘skin’ could make testing cosmetics on animals obsolete
Chances are, you or someone you know has used a cosmetic product that was tested on animals. Though once a common practice, it has faced fierce backlash from animal welfare organizations, who argue that animal testing is unnecessarily cruel….
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He Tried to Levitate a Diamond – What He Discovered Could Change Medicine Forever
Groundbreaking Technology Uses Acoustic Waves to Move Living Cells Without Contact This innovation could replace bulky lab equipment, revolutionizing drug discovery and enabling rapid, personalized treatment testing. Born from a student project…
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