🍀 Solar panels in fields yield larger harvests
It is possible to combine electricity production and cultivation on the same surface, according to research from Mälardalen University.
🌑 The moon has enough oxygen for a massive colony
There is enough oxygen on the moon for eight billion people to be able to breathe for 100,000 years.
🥤Scanner makes plastic sorting easier - and more correct
A simple scanner could help sorting companies that today use manual sorting to become more efficient at recycling different types of plastics correctly.
🥔 Construction company: Agricultural waste can replace cement
Oat husk or rice husk could be used in concrete, resulting in reduced quantities of cement necessary in concrete by almost 50 percent.
💊 Discovery brings hope to battle against antibiotic resistance
A group of molecules has proven able to attack bacteria that are resistant to today's antibiotics.
🐟 Insects make farmed salmon more sustainable
Fish raised on insect feed have a much lower environmental impact than fish that have received traditional fish-based feed.
💊 AI helps find new drugs
An AI is being tasked with analyzing huge amounts of medical data, based upon which it'll be able to predict how to create medicines capable of curing serious diseases.
🦈"Sea motorway" becomes nature reserve
A sharp increase in the nature reserve around the Galapagos Islands will give endangered species a chance for recovery.
🔬 Biomarker can warn of diabetes years in advance
A protein can show if you are at risk of getting type 2 diabetes almost two decades before you become ill.