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Sep 24, 2017
Particle Accelerators Could Be the Key to Cheaper Solar Panels
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: particle physics, solar power, sustainability
It may seem counterintuitive, but we can use a particle accelerator to make solar panels. Here’s how.
No single area of the brain can take responsibility for our perception of time. Instead, multiple regions perform different tasks to help you watch the clock.
Sep 24, 2017
Scientists turned these spinach leaves into beating heart tissue
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Sep 24, 2017
This new robotic skin could tell the difference between hot and cold water
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Sep 24, 2017
This pocket-sized sterilizer kills bacteria using light
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Sep 24, 2017
Oxygen therapy successfully reversed this little girl’s brain damage
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: neuroscience
Sep 24, 2017
How Estonia is leading the way to our digital future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, innovation
Estonia is a leader in technology and innovation, but now the rest of the world must catch up.
Sep 24, 2017
British supermarket offers ‘finger vein’ payment in worldwide first
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: electronics
A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for groceries using just the veins in their fingertips.
Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves.
The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in “serious talks” with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
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Sep 24, 2017
Navy Will Start Using Xbox Controllers For Periscope Operation
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Beginning in November, some US Navy submarine periscopes will be operated in a new, less expensive way: via Xbox controllers.