💡 Innovation
🌊 'Other-worldly' underwater sculptures save the sea
“If the sea dies, so does the fisherman. You can’t just take, you have to give too”. These underwater sculptures save the sea from being overfished.
🚰 New method pulls drinking water from the air
The University of Texas has developed a gel film that absorbs water from the air and turns it into drinking water. It can even absorb water in very arid climates.
👟 Sustainable and affordable sneakers
Shoe brand Cariuma puts sustainability, ethics, comfort and quality first. To manage this, they use raw material instead of non-recyclable ones.
☀ Molecule can store solar energy for 18 years
A new energy system can store energy for up to 18 years and then release it as electricity when needed.
🕷 World's smallest robots could help with surgeries and maintenance
Engineers have created half-milimeter robo-crabs that could have interesting implementations.
🏗 VR provides better and cheaper construction
VR gives builders and construction management the opportunity to walk around in a full-scale model of a construction and easier to find faults even before construction starts.
🌱 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.