💡 Innovation
🌱 Drones plant 40,000 seeds per day
An Australian start-up uses seed-firing drones to fight biodiversity loss.
🏜 MIT team designs desert shelter for humans and animals
A team of MIT alumni have recently designed a sustainable structure for humans as well as animals.
💊 Heart medicine could give us new cancer treatments
Medicines for, among other things, heart disease and depression also work against certain types of cancer and can give us a better opportunity to treat metastases.
🔋 New electric car battery reduces charging time from hours to minutes
A new anode in a lithium-ion battery could drastically reduce the time it takes to charge the battery.
🔊 Paper-thin speakers produce bold sound
Researchers have designed speakers that are no thicker than a sheet of pape and can be "wallpapered" on the walls.
🚤 Automated and eco-friendly water taxi
A new automated and eco-friendly water taxi launches in the Netherlands. It’s called the Roboat and it’s now navigating the canals running through Amsterdam.
🌊 Systems absorb CO2 from the air by taking it from the sea
A research team from UCLA have proposed a solution to the CO2 problem and they believe the ocean to be the key.
🌳 Kenyan community regrew its forest - and stopped flooding
A community in Kenya called Mirema Community Forest Association (CFA) regrew its forest and by doing so reduced their flooding problem.
🌳 Experimental “super forest” shows how to plant trees the right way
This experimental “super forest” in England aims to show us how to plant trees the right way.