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Why the octopus does not get tied in knots

This is one for the kids to answer at dinnertime: An octopus’s arms are covered in hundreds of suckers that will stick to just...

Daring Moroccan university recycles urine as drinking water

You might not want to tell your Moroccan grandmother, but technology first developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) that recycles urine and waste...

Ecoppia cleans solar panels for more energy

Solar parks in the desert face two major challenges: a lot of dust on the photovoltaic panels and not enough water to clean them....

This “Green Machine” mobile city fertilizes the Sahara Desert as it moves

Posterity may end up migrating from place to place to find food like our nomadic ancestors did if we don't get a hold of...

The mailman is a drone in this Middle East country [video]

Some countries like Canada are trying to say goodbye to human-delivered postal mail forever. But a new initiative from the United Arab Emirates puts...

Wind-powered Tumbleweed robot rolls back encroaching deserts

Desertification has gobbled up huge swaths of the Middle East and North Africa, a fact that Jerusalem-based industrial designer Shlomi Mir knows all too...

SodaStream stock rises as Scarlett Johansson’s banned ad sizzles (video)

Israel’s do-it-yourself (and environmentally friendly) soft drink maker SodaStream may go down in the record books as having created the most provocative Super Bowl...

Hybrid solar electric oven SunFocus cooks with or without the sun

Solar ovens are great, and we've seen a lot of them. But they are limited since they only work when it's actually sunny. Sun...

Practical Solar Powered Innovations for Developing Countries

Solar energy projects for developing countries in Africa and the Middle East MENA Region have often been put on the backburner due to financial...

GE Opens Ecomagination Clean Tech Hub in Masdar City

There's something so satisfying about watching the seed of an idea turn into something real - like GE's Ecomagination Center unveiled at Masdar City...

Aquaponics is farming with a fishing rod in Israel

Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for the day. Give him a fishing rod and feed him for life....

Oggii dog collar device lets you know if pet is happy and healthy

“After we break the ice, we can bark,” says Yonatan Dror, CEO of a new Israeli pet chip monitor company called Oggii. This would sound...

World’s longest undersea water pipeline uniting Turkey to Cyprus

Turkey has started constructing what will be the world's longest undersea water pipeline. The 107 kilometer pipe will draw water from the Dragon River...

WakaWaka’s Solar for Syria gives refugees energy and light [video]

Nearly 7 million people have fled their homes to escape the violence in Syria, and 2 million refugees in Jordan and Lebanon face a...

Open source prefab bee hive helps the masses protect our pollinators [video]

Enlisting the masses to save the bees, Open Tech Forever has developed a high tech CNC-cut hive that allows global citizens to keep an...

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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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