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Heat hackers breach computer systems by “breathing” data whispers

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Pee Power is making energy from urine in Africa

It's already well known that manure or poop can be recycled for making products like paper as well as creating biogas power from methane gas.  Turning...

Thermo-piezoelectric tires by Goodyear produces energy for your electric car

Like Israel's Softwheel for wheelchairs and bikes, Goodyear is asking: Can new ways of engineering tires extend the cruising ranges of electric cars to...

Sensilize delivers chemistry lab by drone to the farmer’s field

Drones, those small, unmanned remote controlled airplanes with cameras can now be ordered by anyone online. They freak some people out. Not everyone loves...

10 Food Tech startups worth putting on your plate

Food Tech, on the surface of things, sounds like something you might not want to bite into, especially if you practice permaculture and organic...

Storm mappers chase after patterns for climate change

The Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of global catastrophe, last month ticked a minute closer to "midnight" — the apocalypse. The symbolic clock...

WaterGen gadget pulls drinking water from thin air

Finding ways to augment supplies of fresh drinking water have been around for years. These ideas vary from basic "low tech" ones like a...

Graphene nanotechnology makes desalination 100 times more efficient

Engineers at Lockheed-Martin recently developed and patented a molecular filtration membrane called Perforene which can desalinate seawater using only 1/100th the energy of the...

Aora’s solar tulips start shining in Ethiopia, without water!

Investments in solar energy innovations are not dead! Remember those weird and wonderful solar energy harvesting tulips planted in Israel and Spain? Seen miles...

Save energy, stress and greenhouse gas by backing up

You know you should have done it. The DropBox folder is there, the extra hard drive is on the shelf. Hey, your partner even...

How your DNA has evolved with parasites

Parasites need to adapt to continue living off their hosts. Almost every type of organism on earth faces parasitism, including us humans. Ecologists have...

Hat’s off to Israel’s LifeBeam for wearable tech

Research and development focused on the aerospace industry has spawned dozens of designs useful in everyday life. Now LifeBeam, an Israeli company that designs high-end...

Agrolan agtech company goes to the worms

Those of you who grew up in countries blessed with ample fresh water supplies may have fond memories of going fishing as a child...

Nanoflow’s Quant is a $1 million car that runs on salt

Nanoflowcell technology's Quant e-Sportlimousine is fast. Its 920 horsepower engine can accelerate this sleekly luxurious car from 0 to 100mph in 2.8 seconds. Its...

Rosetta attempts comet landing to study our distant past

Almost exactly one year ago Green Prophet revealed that King Tut’s jewelry contains ancient comet dust. Now the ancient Egyptians will leave their mark...

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A billion dollar bet on Pacific Fusion’s New Mexico campus

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Europe’s circular fashion mandate in effect by 2030

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