Are space-built supermaterials a secret weapon against climate change?
‘Earth is a terrible place to make things,’ according to aerospace engineer Andrew Bacon. Here’s how low gravity provides the unique conditions to build high-performance materials which may arm us against climate change. Finding ways of building sustainable technologies in a sustainable way is a requirement which perpetually limits our...
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Report: Gen Z are becoming default ‘tech support’ in their offices
A recent survey on office habits found that Gen Z employees spend on average eight hours a week providing unofficial tech support. The ‘Digital Natives’ are said to be becoming increasingly frustrated at having to pick up the slack. Technology struggles are a universal problem in offices across the globe,...
Cryptocurrency scams on course for record numbers in 2022
In a year that has been anything but stable for crypto, more than $1bn has been scammed from digital traders. This puts 2022 on course for a worrying record, according to the FTC. Enthusiasts are finding it harder by the day to defend the integrity of decentralised financial platforms. The blockchain...
These eco-zeppelins could help to clean up the aviation industry
A small Bedford-based tech start-up called Hybrid Air Vehicles has just sold 10 environmentally friendly airships to a Spanish airliner. Could this be the early knockings of a cleaner aviation industry?
As you’re no doubt aware by now, the aviation industry is a serious carbon emitter.
Reportedly responsible for around
The technology addressing the ocean’s carbon acidity problem
Carbon sequestration is largely deemed as a good thing for the climate, but our oceans are becoming more acidic with every metric ton stored. Here’s how technology is helping to balance that. Geoengineers continue searching for ways to sequester more of our atmosphere’s carbon within the ocean, but as with...
Seed-firing drones are now reversing deforestation
An Australian start up is using artificial intelligence, specially designed seed pods, and autonomous drones to reverse forest loss at record speed. Deforestation - whether human driven or natural - seriously disturbs wildlife, ecosystems, weather patterns, and contributes to our changing climate. At least 85 percent of global deforestation has...
‘Power-Blox’ could provide clean energy to rural areas by 2030
They may look like giant LEGO bricks, but these ‘Power-Blox’ energy cubes provide portable electricity via solar panels. It’s hoped that they’ll be used to provide power to the world’s poorest regions. What if your regular LEGO brick could do more than just serve as a potential safety hazard for your feet? That’s the thinking behind ‘Power-Blox’, the energy cube that stores electricity via the power of the sun. Co-founder...
Are we ready for metaverse schools to be the new norm?
Global school group, Inspired, is the first of its kind to be launching a school in the metaverse, but what does that mean for education and how do students and teachers feel about it? ‘We are becoming better at realising that, as educators, we aren’t just “exam conveyor belts”. Students entering the job market in 2022 require an entirely different skill set to be able to thrive and succeed,’ says...
Robot beekeepers could help pollinators prosper in a warming world
As our world becomes warmer, we’re losing bee colonies at an unprecedented rate and our global food supplies could soon be under major threat. Preparing for the worst, Israeli start-up Beewise is already rearing its own hives using state-of-the-art AI tech. May 20, the fifth annual World Bee Day, was less about celebrating our remarkable pollinators and more about raising awareness. The insect apocalypse is something both climate experts and conservationists...
The Norwegian start-up making roads carbon negative
Using recycled asphalt bonded by plant-based adhesive, Carbon Crusher has created a mix for carbon negative roads that is both affordable and actively sequesters emissions. Paving the road to a greener future sounds awfully cliché, but that is quite literally Carbon Crusher’s business MO. The Norwegian tech start-up has been wracking its brains over the last year to think up alternatives to conventional road tar. Since the Romans, there has been...
