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China goes Internet of Things for the farm by buying Israel’s AutoAgronom

China's economy is growing exponentially. So is the needs of its population. To keep ahead of the food curve, China's Yuanda Group just bought...

Will Israeli cars roll on alternatives by 2025?

Despite Israel's dead electric car company Better Place and its venture to create an electric alternative to fossil fuel driven cars,  the Israeli government is still interested in ...

Jewelry that turns human veins into power source

Talk about being self-sufficient, but totally weird! Israeli student designer Naomi Kizhner has designed a collection of jewelry that harvests energy from veins in...

OAXIS: solar-powered hydroponic food belt proposed for the Arabian Peninsula

Most Gulf countries import up to 90 percent of their food, which neither bodes well for food security no climate change - since the food...

The UAE unveils plans to send the first Arab spaceship to Mars by 2021

Apart from a couple of monkeys from Iran, the Middle East has yet to send a serious mission to space. But Sheikh Mohammed bin...

NOMADD robots clean Saudi solar panels without using a drop of water

Saudi Arabia is a desert country with no freshwater resources. Every day the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) produces more than three million cubic meters...

“Smart herb garden” by Click & Grow will make you dumb

I get that a lot of people don't have any experience growing food and that city people might not have garden space, but so called high tech gardening has...

Turkey subsidizes solar donkeys for shepherds

Just when you think you've seen it all, a story pops up about donkeys in Turkey that carry solar panels so that shepherds, who...

Vertical gardens in Lebanon based on traditional Arabia designs

Green walls and rooftop gardens are great, but keeping them healthy in the Middle East and North Africa can be challenging. Green Studios, whose work in...

Drones monitor flamboyances of flamingos in this Arab country

“Drones are the future of conservation,” said Dr. Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri when commenting on his team’s plan to use drones to monitor flocks...

Create an ocean water health sensor and win $2 million

Ocean acidification has reached record levels, so the deep-pocketed Board of XPRIZE are at it again - using "incentivization" to spark technological breakthroughs to...

Phinergy tests range-extending aluminum-air battery for EVs in Montreal

The world's third largest producer of aluminum has teamed up with Israel's Phinergy to produce a new battery that would make electric vehicles as cost...

Sensibo says it’s already cool. Now make your AC energy smart!

Israeli start-up Sensibo is convinced it can uptick your air conditioner's IQ.  They've created a mobile app (with associated hardware) that allows you to control your...

SmartBrick lets you play with LEGO to build your home – for real

Following the news that 3D printed homes from China can be built in 24 hours, comes a new Israeli invention called SmartBrick. The company owned by...

The ‘original iPad’ – 1,200 years before Apple

Turkish archaeologists have unearthed what Discovery News calls the 'Byzantine iPad." Dated to the 9th century A.D., the wooden tool was found among a shipyard of roughly 37 ancient ships in...

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Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

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Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology.

Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.

First ever recorded humpback whale recording found from 1949

Unlike most recordings from this era, which were lost as early media deteriorated, the audograph discs survived and appear to have been uniquely used for underwater sound — making them a rare, possibly singular example of early ocean listening preserved from the dawn of marine acoustics.
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