💡 Innovation
🤖 BB - a beach-cleaning robot
BeachBot is a mobile beach cleaning robot which picks up cigarette butts from the sand and disposes them into safe bins. The robot uses an AI-detection algorithm to find the butts.
🚀 Jim O'Shaughnessy launches new venture for creators
Wall Street legend, Jim O'Shaughnessy, is looking for creators around the globe.
🤖 Robot collects rare minerals from the seafloor
A company has proven that sustainable ocean mining is possible with the world's first hovering robot.
🔋 Seasalt batteries - a cheap, green alternative to lithium
Researchers have designed a cheap new sea salt battery with four times the energy storage capacity of lithium.
😮 Internet pioneer: IKEA almost decided to become Amazon, before Amazon
In the late 1990s, a Swedish internet pioneer's masterstroke made IKEA into Europe's largest e-commerce business. But he also proposed that IKEA should do the very thing that Jeff Bezos later did with Amazon.
🚗 Car powered by the sun is soon coming to the US
In the beginning of next year a car powered by the sun called Squad solar electric city car is coming to the US.
🧪 Chemical process turns non-recyclable PVC into useful materials
New research from the University of Michigan has targeted one of the most difficult materials to reuse, namely PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and created a chemical process which can turn this previously non-recyclable material into something useful.
💊 Cure for MS-like disease
Immunotherapy, inspired by revolutionary cancer treatment, eliminates disease-causing cells in MS-like disease.
⚡ Nuclear fusion breakthrough: More energy out than in
For the first time in history, scientists have managed to produce more energy from nuclear fusion than what was required for the lasers to drive it.