Sci/Tech | https://ens-newswire.com We Cover the Earth for You! Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:26:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.7 https://ens-newswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/favicon.jpg Sci/Tech | https://ens-newswire.com 32 32 Earth Commission: ‘Sick’ Planet Needs Safe and Just Treatment https://ens-newswire.com/earth-commission-sick-planet-needs-safe-and-just-treatment/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:26:44 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98808 STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 31, 2023 (ENS) – Humans are taking “colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth,” a new Earth Commission study published today [...]

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USDA Approves World’s First Honeybee Vaccine https://ens-newswire.com/usda-approves-worlds-first-honeybee-vaccine/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:41:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=98230 WASHINGTON, DC, January 11, 2023 (ENS) – The first vaccine for the world’s imperiled honeybees has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for two years on a conditional [...]

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Chip-free Sensitive Electronic Skin Fabricated at MIT https://ens-newswire.com/chip-free-sensitive-electronic-skin-fabricated-at-mit/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:55:32 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97634 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 19, 2022 (ENS) – Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without onboard chips or [...]

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XPRIZE Awards 15 Winners $1M Each for CO2 Removal Know-How https://ens-newswire.com/xprize-awards-15-winners-1m-each-for-co2-removal-know-how/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 02:35:39 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=97171 LOS ANGELES, California, April 22, 2022 (ENS) – In celebration of Earth Day, 15 teams have been designated as million-dollar Milestone winners in the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. [...]

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Mapping the Universe: Scientists Reveal 4.4 Million Galaxies https://ens-newswire.com/mapping-the-universe-scientists-reveal-4-4-million-galaxies/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:27:00 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=96764 DURHAM, UK, February 25, 2022 (ENS) – Astronomers from Durham University collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the [...]

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Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries https://ens-newswire.com/artificial-intelligence-ethics-approved-by-193-countries/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 22:23:34 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95425 PARIS, France, December 1, 2021 (ENS) – The first global agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence, AI, was adopted Thursday by 193 countries. All the member states of the [...]

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Facebook Morphs Into Meta for Metaverse: Zuckerberg Explains https://ens-newswire.com/facebook-morphs-into-meta-for-metaverse-zuckerberg-explains/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 01:47:22 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=95090 MENLO PARK, California, October 28, 2021 (ENS) – Facebook has had many troubles in its 15 year history – outages, accusations of all kinds, privacy concerns, lawsuits, the list goes [...]

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2021 Nobel Prizes Raise Awareness of Democracy, Climate https://ens-newswire.com/2021-nobel-prizes-raise-awareness-of-democracy-climate/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:58:45 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94924 OSLO, Norway, October 10, 2021 (ENS) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia [...]

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Artificial Intelligence Systems Learn to Teach Each Other https://ens-newswire.com/artificial-intelligence-systems-learn-to-teach-one-another/ Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:42:49 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94869 WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2021 (ENS) – A new international project is creating advanced artificial intelligence, AI, programs that will enable machines to learn progressively over a lifetime and share [...]

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Watertech Startup Products Make Blue-Green Algae Commit Suicide https://ens-newswire.com/watertech-startup-products-make-blue-green-algae-commit-suicide/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:07:19 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94267

TZUR HADASSAH, Israel, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – BlueGreen Water Technologies, Ltd., a global watertech company that provides innovative solutions to toxic algae blooms, has been named the Global Water [...]

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Roach-sized Robot Can Search Accident, Disaster Scenes https://ens-newswire.com/roach-sized-robot-can-search-accident-disaster-scenes/ Sun, 04 Jul 2021 21:33:04 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=94108

BERKELEY, California, July 4, 2021 (ENS) – A team of Chinese engineers working at the University of California, Berkeley have created a tiny, lightweight, durable robot that achieves unique control [...]

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Next-Gen Holograms Float, Move in Thin Air https://ens-newswire.com/next-gen-holograms-float-move-in-thin-air/ Mon, 10 May 2021 00:26:01 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93669

PROVO, Utah, May 9, 2021 (ENS) – Hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air. Using lasers to create the displays of science fiction inspired by [...]

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Exposing ‘Deepfake Geography’ https://ens-newswire.com/exposing-deepfake-geography/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:01:39 +0000 https://ens-newswire.com/?p=93523

SEATTLE, Washington, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – A fire in New York’s Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. [...]

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New Book Links Southeast Asia’s Wildlife Trade to COVID https://ens-newswire.com/new-book-links-southeast-asias-wildlife-trade-to-covid/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:40:51 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92853  

HANOI, Vietnam, December 8, 2020 (ENS) – “The price of the private dining room would be included in the price of the pangolin, along with the rest of the [...]

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Australian Radio Telescope Maps Universe at Warp Speed https://ens-newswire.com/australian-radio-telescope-maps-universe-at-warp-speed/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:04:02 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92838  

PERTH, Australia, December 1, 2020 (ENS) – A radio telescope in the outback of Western Australia is creating a new atlas of the universe at astonishing speed, mapping some [...]

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New Smart Windows Generate Power as They Change Color https://ens-newswire.com/new-smart-windows-generate-power-as-they-change-color/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:26:20 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92667  

GOLDEN, Colorado, October 21, 2020 (ENS) – A thermochromic window that darkens automatically in the sun and simultaneously uses the sun to generate electricity has been invented by scientists [...]

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Greener Process Grows U.S. Supply of Rare Earth Metals https://ens-newswire.com/greener-process-grows-u-s-supply-of-rare-earth-metals/ Tue, 12 May 2020 05:46:28 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92418  

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, May 11, 2020 (ENS) – Mining for rare earth metals is about to become more environmentally and economically feasible though a process newly developed and [...]

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Rare UV-C Light Rays Remove Coronavirus From Surfaces https://ens-newswire.com/rare-uv-c-light-rays-remove-coronavirus-from-surfaces/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:45:00 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92360  

SANTA BARBARA, California, April 23, 2020 (ENS) – As the world races to find vaccines, therapies and cures for the deadly respiratory disease COVID-19, the deep ultraviolet color [...]

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MIT Engineers Find New Way to Remove CO2 From Air https://ens-newswire.com/mit-engineers-find-new-way-to-remove-co2-from-air/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:36:14 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=92085  

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, October 29, 2019 (ENS) – A new way of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream of air could provide a valuable tool [...]

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Carbon-neutral Fuel Created from Sunlight and Air https://ens-newswire.com/carbon-neutral-fuel-created-from-sunlight-and-air/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:17:32 +0000 http://ens-newswire.com/?p=91781  

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 25, 2019 (ENS) – An innovative technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels from only sunlight and air has been developed by researchers from the Swiss [...]

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