Fact-Based Optimistic News
News that makes people more optimistic about the future by balancing the negative bias in other media
🧠 Doctor Mouna: Understand your pandemic brain – and get optimistic about the future
The coronavirus has kidnapped our brain. The development is much more positive than most people are aware of, says Mouna Esmaeilzadeh, doctor, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and not least Warp News Expert in Health Tech.
💻 The pandemic shows the enormous benefits of digitalization
More flexibility, higher productivity, higher quality of life, and fewer days of sick leave. Working from home is not without problems, but studies show the benefits outweigh them. It took a pandemic to realize this, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
🤖 The robots that cook your dinner
A specially built robot kitchen and a robot attendant can make cooking a spectator sport in the future.
⚓️ New way of powering aquatic research robots
An ex-NASA researcher has unriddled how the thermal energy trapped in the ocean can generate unlimited clean power for aquatic robots.
📝 Warp News Impact Report - December 2020
Two new e-books, online events added to the Warp Space Summit and an astronaut makes his debut as a Warp News Expert.
🐦 Reduced air pollution has saved 1.5 billion birds
Stricter air pollution laws have saved many birds in the United States over the past 40 years.
🚀 An easier way to make rocket fuel on Mars
Researchers have found a more efficient way to produce methane, making it an even more attractive fuel for Mars trips.
🛰 Elon Musk delivers internet of the future with Starlink satellites
Slow connections and lagging video calls will be extinct with Elon Musks’ Starlink satellites. SpaceX's division Starlink is building a network of satellite-routers with the capacity to globalize the internet once and for all.
📱 An app that plants trees
Ant Forest, the app that reforests the earth by turning the choice to live a lower-carbon lifestyle into a game and plants trees. The project won the Champions of the Earth price in 2019.
🌳 African countries use satellites to reduce deforestation
In just two years African nations have been able to reduce deforestation with 18%, all thanks to a satellite monitoring system created by GLAD.
🚰 MyH20 turns data into drinking water
Xiaoyuan “Charlene” Ren, a winner of Young Champions of the Earth, uses data to provide households with clean water. MyH2O network has provided tens of thousands of villagers with clean, drinkable water.
🥼 Swedish government decides on billion-dollar investment in research and innovation
Last year's pandemic resulted in a decision by the government to allocate more money for research. Two of the areas that will get the most money are research on viruses and the environment.
🔌 This charging robot charges an electric car where there are no fixed chargers
If there are not enough charging posts in the parking lot, a charging robot can come to the rescue.
💉 Vaccine against meningitis can reduce the risk of mental illness
Research points to a link between meningitis in childhood and mental disorders later on.
🐬 Scientists find coral sanctuary
A newly discovered coral sanctuary with abundant marine life is not affected by the warming oceans.
⚡️ Great Britain windfarms break the record for clean power generation
On Friday, December 18th, 40% of Great Britain’s electricity was generated in wind farms. All thanks to the stormy winter weather.
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