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AuREUS Aurora Renewable Energy UV Sequestration | James Dyson Award The AuREUS system is an evolution for walls/windows, and uses technology synthesized from upcycled crop waste to absorb stray UV light from sunlight and convert it to clean renewable electricity.It… International and sustainability winners announced | James Dyson Award 2020 marked a record-breaking year for the James Dyson Award, with the highest number of entries ever submitted and largest amount of prize money given to inventors. The Award opened for entries in… Apartment building being printed by “fastest 3D construction printer” 4,090 sq ft), spread over three floors, plus a basement level, and consist of five apartments, four of which will be rented out, with one used as a show home. the printer takes into account the pi… Trudy Kortes – A Career in Space Exploration and Real-Life Moonshots! – Don’t Stop Us Now “career at the cutting edge of space exploration. Trudy Kortes is the Chief of the Human Exploration and Space Operations Division at NASA. With her day job, not only is Trudy working on real… Booster rocket from 1966 Surveyor 2 may have returned to Earth orbit Since an empty booster rocket is basically an empty tube made out of very light metal alloys, that was the obvious candidate.CNEOS Director Paul Chodas then took the calculated orbit and ran it bac… Portable Deep Purple UV sanitizes multiple items whenever, wherever Deep Purple sanitizes objects using UV-C light delivered by long-lasting LEDs to kill 99.9 percent of all bacteria and viruses. foldable form factor. The origami base design allows the device to f… Earth-friendly fashion: U of T alumna Avneet Ghotra’s startup turns food waste into wearables | University of Toronto Alumni starting with discarded apples, to create a PLA-based fabric that is strong, durable, decomposable and cost-effective. They are also working to build partnerships with farmers and juiceries to acce… Advanced atomic clock makes a better dark matter detector — ScienceDaily researchers have used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continual improvements in clocks have value beyond timekeeping.Older atomic clo… Home – Chemistry Shorts
High-Performance Perovskite Could Revolutionise Solar Sector — Born to Engineer The problem they had was that Perovskites are unstable when exposed to low-intensity light. The solution was to focus the light into a high-intensity beam.By using solar concentrators in their cell… Simple STEM Activities To Do At Home — Born to Engineer wonderful STEM activities families can do at home. Some of these activities can be done in the great outdoors, where children can revel in the beauty of nature and parents can get some much needed… Squid jet propulsion can enhance design of underwater robots, vehicles: Cephalopod jet propulsion reveals clues about how squids maneuver within turbulent flows. — ScienceDaily Squids use a form of jet propulsion that is not well understood, especially when it comes to their hydrodynamics under turbulent flow conditions. Discovering their secrets can help create new desig… Mimi Isabella Nwosu – Engineering Myths — Born to Engineer can engineers fix everything? Do you have to be a genius to become an engineer? Are all engineers boring white guys?Mimi is a Assistant Materials Engineer at Sir Robert McAlpine where she studies d… NASA Contacts Voyager 2 Using Upgraded Deep Space Network Dish | NASA The only radio antenna that can command the 43-year-old spacecraft has been offline since March as it gets new hardware, but work is on track to wrap up in February.On Oct. 29, mission operators se… Researchers 3D-printed a cell-sized tugboat | Engadget Researchers 3D-printed a cell-sized tugboat Physicists at Leiden University in the Netherlands have 3D printed what could be the world’s smallest boat, a test object known as Benchy. At 30 micron… Raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail — ScienceDaily Engineers have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility Our design extracts principles of avian agile flight to create a drone that can approximat… Lever and mechanical advantage | Simple Machine – YouTube Pratham Open School EnglishArchimedes helped Bittu place a heavy box on the shelf. How? Find out from this video. Gel instrumental in 3D bioprinting biological tissues — ScienceDaily The eventual creation of replacement biological parts requires fully three-dimensional capabilities that two-dimensional and three-dimensional thin-film bioprinting cannot supply. Now, using a yiel… Earphone tracks facial expressions, even with a face mask — ScienceDaily researchers have invented an earphone that can continuously track full facial expressions by observing the contour of the cheeks — and can then translate expressions into emojis or silent speech c… Cameras that can learn what they are viewing — ScienceDaily The research suggests a future with intelligent dedicated AI cameras — visual systems that can simply send high-level information to the rest of the system, such as the type of object or event tak…