💡 Innovation
👟 Baby shoes dissolve in boiling water
These baby shoes are made to dissolve in boiling water when a baby outgrows them. They are created to last through the use of two kids so it still has hand-me-down potential.
🌳 Hi-tech fire detection sensors to protect forests
High-tech fire detection sensors are to protect Italy’s forests from wildfires. The sensors can detect the gas during the smoldering phase of a fire, before it fully takes effect.
🤿 Divers plant seagrass
Underwater gardeners are hand-planting seagrass on the bottom of the ocean in Denmark in order to regenerate the once lush beds that covered the seafloor.
🐚 Mussel shells become beautiful tile
Mussels that clog London’s water pipes are being turned into beautiful tiles.
🌸 Rare orchid thought to be extinct is rediscovered
Since 1902, a rare orchid has been thought to be extinct but now, botanists in Vermont have rediscovered a population of the flower.
🚰 Filter uses moss to clean water
Students from Colombia have designed a filter that uses moss to capture microplastics and pollutants from water before you drink it.
🥦 Huge benefits from growing broccoli shaded by solar panels
Solar panels take up a lot of space and farmers usually want to grow crops on the surface where solar panels would work best. Now, scientists have found that a certain vegetable thrives in the shade from the panels. This vegetable is broccoli.
♻️ This plastic alternative breaks down into sugar
A new plant-based alternative to plastic has been designed by researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. The special thing about this product is that it decomposes into sugar.
🔋 Can nuclear waste become batteries that last for thousands of years?
NDB claims to have the solution for how we should manage nuclear waste and have constant access to electricity during the electrification of the world - diamond batteries made from nuclear waste.