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Electric car breakthrough: High speed charging for batteries
Electric cars are great and clean. But here’s the problem: When you go and meet your friends for dinner and arrive with an almost empty battery, you need to stay the night to be able to come home again. It takes minutes to fill up your tank and about 8 hours to charge up your battery. Now Korean Read More...
A new tribe: Endurance athletes over 60
Ultra-events, like ultra marathons, or deca-triathlons, aren’t a young person’s sport, but a fit person’s sport. If you’re unfamiliar with endurance races they’re pretty much grueling hyper-cardio races on steroids—like a 625-mile foot race or a 3,000-mile bike ride. While you might be Read More...
Innovative soccer ball turns into energy source
Most of the developing world quickly goes dark after the sun sets. Kerosene lamps and polluting generators can provide light for some, but the fumes these two sources emit cause cancer, and other breathing problems. A tech startup has a playful solution: the soccer ball. On the inside of this Read More...
Earthquake detector
Another way to save lives with technology is in the news: An earthquake-predictive app. The app, developed by the Early Warning Labs in cooperation with the United States Government, warns of an earthquake half a minute before it starts. In an earthquake 30 seconds can make the difference between Read More...
A way to donate leftover subway fares
If you live in a metropolitan area chances are you have at least one leftover transit pass with some-odd amount of dollars and cents left on it. Instead of having the change on your transit card fall into the pockets of your local transportation authority, wouldn’t it be nice if you could donate Read More...
Device that detects disease
Wearable devices are getting popular for staying healthy, but to diagnose a real problem you still have to see a doctor. Researchers are creating a device called rHealth that is small, portable and can diagnose hundreds of ailments with one drop of blood. RHealth uses nanotechnology to quickly Read More...
Doing less gets you further, professionally and personally
How many times a day do you check your phone? A dozen? More? A Times magazine study found the average was 110: The average person unlocks their phone 110 times a day. But that’s understandable, many times it’s for work—you have to. Technological innovations catalyze productivity, boost job Read More...
Inflatable incubator saving lives in poor countries
Giving birth in developing countries is dangerous. A costly and clunky incubator— basically a box that blows in hot air and regulates temperature—could save countless lives but is almost never available. A UK graduate student has designed an inflatable incubator, MOM, which is small, portable, Read More...
Solar heat power breakthrough
Another week, another jaw-dropping solar technology breakthrough. The critical point of solar technology is the amount of light that can be captured by light-absorbing material and converted into electricity (photovoltaic panels) or heat (concentrated solar power). Researchers at the University of Read More...
Researchers discover another reason to avoid red meat
You may already have your own reasons why you cut back on red meat a long time ago. Maybe it was because you already knew it wasn’t doing much good in your body. Saturated fat has earned a bad reputation. New research now suggests that may not be the only reason why red meat is linked to heart Read More...