This video shows basically that trash can be turned into treasure. From recycling food waste into dye to so much more. This video shows that basically pollution can be reduced by 95 percent. Also so that all resources from trash can be reincarnated into many new forms leaving no waste and creating a fully circular economy benefiting the environment.
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo’s Roppongi is currently showing a “pooploop” exhibition. Our presenters chat with exhibition directors Satoh Taku and Takemura Shinichi about cycles of waste and excrement around the planet, and explore the potential of environmental design.
“Now the rise of AI is sparking a new discussion: If automation takes over more physical tasks and artificial intelligence takes over more intellectual ones, humans will be defined by their social abilities, said Raman.”
M doomed! 😜
The knowledge economy is on the way out, and a new economy is on the way for us humans at work, he said. I’m calling it the innovation economy.
In this new era, human innovation and our uniquely human skills, like social and emotional intelligence will be key, he added.
Rubidium could be the next key player in oxide-ion conductors. Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have discovered a rare rubidium (Rb)-containing oxide-ion conductor, Rb5BiMo4O16, with exceptionally high conductivity.
Identified through computational screening and experiments, its superior performance stems from low activation energy and structural features like large free volume and tetrahedral motion. Its stability under various conditions offers a promising direction for solid oxide fuel cells and clean energy technologies.
Oxide-ion conductors enable oxide ions (O2-) to be transported in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), which can run on diverse fuels beyond hydrogen, including natural gas, and biogas, and even certain liquid hydrocarbons. This flexibility makes them particularly valuable during the transition to a hydrogen economy.
Sodium is cheap and abundant, but the batteries can’t quite match lithium cells—so far.
Particles in high-energy nuclear collisions move in a way that follows a pattern known as Lévy walks, a motion found across many scientific fields.
Named after mathematician Paul Lévy, Lévy walks (or, in some cases, Lévy flights) describe a type of random movement seen in nature and various scientific processes. This pattern appears in diverse phenomena, from how predators search for food to economic fluctuations, microbiology, chemical reactions, and even climate dynamics.
Lévy walks in high-energy nuclear collisions.
In today’s AI news, Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has officially launched its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3. Released late on February 17, 2025, Grok 3 introduces significant advancements over its predecessor, Grok 2, and aims to compete with leading AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini.
In other advancements, Replit has transformed non-technical employees at Zillow into software developers. The real estate giant now routes over 100,000 home shoppers to agents using applications built by team members who had never written code before. This breakthrough stems from Replit’s new partnership with Anthropic and Google Cloud, which has enabled over 100,000 applications on Google Cloud Run.
Then, Wu Yonghui, a prestigious “Google Fellow” who worked at the US tech giant for 17 years, recently joined TikTok owner ByteDance to lead foundational research on artificial intelligence (AI), as the firm seeks to “explore the upper limit of intelligence”. Wu now works at ByteDance’s Seed department, which the Beijing-based company started in early 2023.
Meanwhile, large companies are not adopting AI as quickly as start-ups, AWS managing director Tanuja Randery says. The gap is leading to a “two-tier” AI economy as startups outpace corporations. Citing a new report from AWS, Randery said that European startups had integrated AI at pace over the last year while larger enterprises in the region were falling behind.
In videos, join Sara Bacha from Converge Technology Solutions as she delves into how GraphRAG outperforms traditional RAG by leveraging knowledge graphs and LLM to enhance data relationships and accuracy. Learn the benefits in development, production, and governance, making maintenance easier with better explainability and traceability.
Researchers at NIMTE have turned metal corrosion into a tool for efficient biomass upgrading, achieving high HMF-to-BHMF conversion rates with a CoCuMW/CF electrode. Their findings offer a low-cost, sustainable solution for bio-based chemical production.
A research team led by Prof. Jian Zhang from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has harnessed metal corrosion to develop high-performance electrodes, facilitating the efficient and cost-effective upgrading of bio-based 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Their findings were published in Chem Catalysis.
While corrosion is typically associated with material degradation and economic loss, researchers are now investigating its potential for advantageous applications, particularly in biomass upgrading.