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Women are the big boss of crowdfunding, says study of 450,000 campaigns
So you want to raise money for your company. What's the next step? It might depend on your gender, if you can believe the latest crowdfunding report from Price Waterhouse Coopers. Their finance team analyzed 450,000 seed crowdfunding across several platforms over two years. While men get most of Read More...
To design the perfect drone, follow nature's lead
Nature has found some elegant solutions to complicated problems and engineers have long been inspired by its designs. But Adrian Thomas thinks translating the best of nature’s discoveries into man-made devices requires the ability to step back and see the context. Thomas is a Professor of Read More...
15 natural ways to lower your blood pressure
High blood pressure is a dangerous condition that can damage your heart. It affects one in three people in the US and 1 billion people worldwide. If left uncontrolled, it raises your risk of heart disease and stroke. But there's good news. There are a number of things you can do to lower your blood Read More...
India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low
India has cancelled plans to build nearly 14 gigawatts of coal-fired power stations – about the same as the total amount in the UK – with the price for solar electricity “free falling” to levels once considered impossible. Analyst Tim Buckley said the shift away from the Read More...
Lego invests $155 million in developing bioplastics to make its toys sustainable
Lego has set the target to replace 20 types of conventional plastics used in making its bricks with sustainable materials by 2030 to help curb the company’s total carbon dioxide emissions. The Denmark-based toy maker has invested $155 million into a Sustainable Materials Center, where materials Read More...
Tesla Model 3 is coming—and it has no key and no instruments
The first Tesla Model 3 cars will be delivered to customers in the coming week. It’s the beginning of fulfilling 500,000 pre-orders and of what Elon Musk has called “six months of manufacturing hell”. Much of the car remains a mystery but the first details are coming Read More...
Research: Biochar reduces air pollution, saves health costs
Producing “biochar” is a 2,000 year-old practice that converts agricultural waste into a soil enhancer that can hold carbon, boost food security, and increase soil biodiversity, and discourage deforestation. The process creates a fine-grained, highly porous charcoal that helps soils retain Read More...
Alphabet works on energy storage system based on salt
Alphabet, Google’s mother company, works on a new storage system for renewable energy that would be better than lithium-ion batteries that require rare earth metals and is thus not entirely sustainable. The Alphabet system involves vats of salt and antifreeze. It can be located almost anywhere, Read More...
Eating less sugar increases your happiness
OK, this headline doesn’t exactly say what the outcome of this new research is. We already knew that eating too much sugar linked to obesity, diabetes, and other degenerative diseases. Now, a new study shows that people eating 67 grams of sugar or more have a 23 percent higher chance to be Read More...
Why more and more high schools are acting like startups
A railroad bridge had become a rusty eyesore in Marion, Iowa, and a local firm was on the hunt for a new design. So Martin Gardner Architecture turned to high school students. A group of budding architects from Iowa BIG, which brings in students from seven Cedar Rapids area high schools to spend Read More...