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The stock market often produces its strongest returns after yield curve inverts, notes top quant
MarketWatch - By William Watts
This article was originally published on March 26. One of Wall Street’s top quantitative analysts was the latest to weigh in on the inversion of the …
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Restoration
How to plant a trillion trees
nature.com - Rachel Cernansky
As projects to restore woodlands accelerate, researchers are looking for ways to avoid repeating past failures. When the Philippines opened its first …
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The Great Green Wall is a wall we can all love
aleteia.org - Cerith Gardiner
Recently there has been a lot of mention of walls in the news. But quietly, across the ocean on the African continent, a far more ambitious wall is …
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Speed Of Light
How Far Could A Human Travel In A Constantly-Accelerating Rocket Ship?
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
Human spaceflight has brought us beyond Earth, but we could potentially venture even farther. Imagine that we could constantly accelerate at the same rate as Earth’s gravitational pull, 9.8 m/s2, indefinitely.
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Zero-waste stores battle plastic packaging
cbc.ca - CBC Radio ·
An alarming 58 per cent of all food produced in Canada is lost or wasted, and only about 11 per cent of plastics are recycled in Canada. So with …
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Europe Is Stockpiling Wind Energy by Converting It to Hydrogen
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
Clean Chemistry Ørsted, an energy company in Denmark, announced in March its new plans to convert electricity from its wind turbines into hydrogen …
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Get Ready For 1.5¢ Renewable Electricity, Steven Chu Says, Which Could Unleash Hydrogen Economy
Forbes - Jeff McMahon
Former Energy Sec. Steven Chu told a roomful of scientists in Chicago they should think now what they could do with renewable electricity that costs only 1.5¢ per kilowatt hour. “The cost of renewable
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New electric motor could eliminate transmissions
greencarreports.com - Eric C. Evarts
It isn’t just batteries that are making big strides in electric cars. Several companies are also striving to make electric motors more efficient and …
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MIT
MIT professor Yet-Ming Chiang on the future of battery technology
Quartz - Akshat Rathi
Yet-Ming Chiang has founded six companies, including three battery startups. Two of the companies (one was involved in batteries and the other 3D printing) have gone on to become “unicorns,” with valuations
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Why Africa Has The Ability To Leapfrog The Rest Of The World With Innovation
Forbes - Francois Botha
The African continent has certainly faced its fair share of challenges in recent decades. But with the trend for emerging economies helping to drive progress in many parts of the world, Africa is now technological
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Nobel Prize Winner: Lasers Could Permanently Destroy Nuclear Waste
futurism.com - Jon Christian
Nuclear Waste Nuclear power can provide inexpensive electricity with little in the way of emissions, but there’s a catch: it produces horrifying …
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NASA chief says a Falcon Heavy rocket could fly humans to the Moon
Ars Technica - Eric Berger
"Gerst is going to be so mad at me for saying all of this." On Monday, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine held a town hall for agency employees to …
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Intel buys into an AI chip that can transfer data 1,000 times faster
MIT Technology Review - Will Knight
Intel and others are investing $13 million in Untether AI, a startup that's working on a novel type of chip for artificial intelligence that promises …
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Plastic
Whale Is Found Dead in Italy With 48 Pounds of Plastic in Its Stomach
The New York Times - By ILIANA MAGRA
More than 48 pounds of plastic, including disposable dishes, a corrugated tube, shopping bags and a detergent package with its bar code still visible, were found inside a dead sperm whale in Italy, the
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Technology
No jetpacks. Zero flying cars. Where is the future we were promised?
Popular Science - Andrew Zaleski
Jetpacks and flying cars might seem more at home parked in the pages of sci-fi novels (and, uh, some magazines) than in your garage. In 1924, PopSci predicted that airborne autos were just 20 years away,
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Owning a Car Will Soon Be as Quaint as Owning a Horse
The New York Times - By KARA SWISHER
I don’t say that because I am particularly old or sick, but because I am at the front end of one of the next major secular trends in tech. Owning a car will soon be like owning a horse — a quaint hobby,
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'We will have colonies on Mars' but it will never be a new Earth
brisbanetimes.com.au - Tony Moore
And all agreed humankind would eventually be on Mars, with regular flights between Earth and the red planet, largely because of the strong interest …
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“Prescribing” fruits and veggies would save $100 billion in medical costs
Fast Company - By Rina Raphael
Researchers at Tufts University made the case that subsidized fruits and vegetables could prevent millions of cases of chronic diseases. Perhaps it’s time for doctors to start prescribing more produce
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Oslo to become first city to charge electric taxis over the air
Reuters
Taxi driver Trond Soemme drives his electric taxi in Oslo, Norway September 13, 2018. Picture taken September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche HELSINKI (Reuters) - Norway’s capital Oslo will become the
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Meet the Texas startup that wants to decarbonize the chemical industry
TechCrunch - Jonathan Shieber
Solugen, a startup that has set itself up with no less lofty a goal than the decarbonization of a massive chunk of the petrochemical industry, may be the first legitimate multi-million dollar company start
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New Mars Fungus May Show Evidence Of Life On Red Planet
The Inquisitr - Aaron Homer
The Journal of Astrobiology and Space Science claims the Curiosity Rover has snapped pictures of growing mushrooms and algae. The Curiosity Rover has …
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Astronomers Have Detected a Star Careening Through The Milky Way at 2.5 Million Mph
ScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR
Many stars sedately tread the measure of the galaxies they inhabit, slowly orbiting the galactic core. Not a star called PSR J0002+6216, though. PSR …
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Fed Up With Plastic, This Man Got Kenya to Ban It
globalcitizen.org - By Joe McCarthy
His story shows that individual activism can go a long way. In 2011, James Wakibia became increasingly angered by the plastic pollution he saw …
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The Dog That Did Not Bark In the Night: The Danger of Survivor Bias in AI
Forbes - Kurt Cagle
Artificial Intelligence is still (somewhat) of a buzzword, though in practice much of what is likely to be implemented in this current business cycle under that all-encompassing umbrella has been. Visual
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Water-Bearing Minerals Found on Asteroid Bennu
interestingengineering.com
"Scientists are interested in the composition of Bennu because similar objects may have seeded the Earth with water and organic materials," said …
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Satellites Are Key to Addressing Global Water Scarcity
interestingengineering.com
On March 22 we celebrate World Water Day. It is a day when those who are lucky to enjoy daily clean water on demand, often taken it for granted, …
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2020 Mars Helicopter Could Open Alien Skies to Exploration
space.com
A few brief hops in the Martian air two years from now could help open alien worlds to an entirely new kind of exploration. An autonomous …
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Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder
Quanta Magazine - Marcus Woo
One of the first quantum simulators has produced a puzzling phenomenon: a row of atoms that repeatedly pops back into place. Physicists have been …
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Volvo In-Car Camera Aims to Cut DUI Driving, Distraction in 2020s
ExtremeTech - Bill Howard
By on March 22, 2019 at 11:41 am Volvo will put a nanny camera in its next generation of cars to keep you and others alive if you’re drunk, …