New Robot moves in Water, on Ice and Land
Funded by the U.S. navy, the ‘Velox’ robot can make novel movement through water and across ice. Dan Fastenberg reports.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.technology-in-business.net
Organically farmed food has a bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed food, due to the greater areas of land required. This is the finding of a new international study involving Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, published in the journal Nature.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.mynewsdesk.com
As a travelling retrospective of her work opens in Bangkok, the Ai Weiwei-approved photographer Luo Yang discusses a decade spent photographing Chinese women
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.anothermag.com
Designed by Danny Hillis, the Clock is designed to run for ten millennia with minimal maintenance and interruption. The Clock is powered by mechanical energy harvested from sunlight as well as the people that visit it. The primary materials used in the Clock are marine grade 316 stainless steel, titanium and dry running ceramic ball bearings. The entire mechanism will be installed in an underground facility in west Texas.
In 02011, The American Astronomy Society published a paper co-written by Danny Hillis that describes how the Clock reckons time over its 10,000-year design lifetime.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: longnow.org
Not so long ago, Chinese bike-sharing firm Ofo was flush with cash and hailed as a game-changing tech startup. Today, it’s struggling to stay afloat.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: edition.cnn.com
Augmented and virtual reality technology is still in the very early stages of development, but it’s already rapidly changing how we do business and innovate.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.businessinsider.com
What do scientists see when comparing our future climate with the past? In less than 200 years, humans have reversed a multimillion-year cooling trend, new research suggests.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: edition.cnn.com
Over the past three decades of global warming, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95 percent, according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card.
The finding suggests that the sea at the top of the world has already morphed into a new and very different state, with major implications not only for creatures such as walruses and polar bears but, in the long term, perhaps for the pace of global warming itself.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.washingtonpost.com
Forum organisers used Boris to enliven the event, having him dance to a pop song, but a crew for Russian state television apparently thought Boris was real, and used footage of him dancing and speaking as an example of Russian technological prowess.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.abc.net.au
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver that energy back into an electric grid on demand. The system may be designed to power a small city not just when the sun is up or the wind is high, but around the clock.
The new design stores heat generated by excess electricity from solar or wind power in large tanks of white-hot molten silicon, and then converts the light from the glowing metal back into electricity when it’s needed. The researchers estimate that such a system would be vastly more affordable than lithium-ion batteries, which have been proposed as a viable, though expensive, method to store renewable energy.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: techxplore.com