🚢 Ocean Cleanup launches a floating garbage truck that will clean rivers from plastics
Around 8.8 million tons of plastic enter the world’s oceans each year — the equivalent of a truckload of garbage every minute. Over time, this trash can accumulate in offshore garbage patches andlinger there for decades [https://www.businessinsider.com/ocean-cleanup-plastic-pacific-garbage-patch-2019-9] . For the last six years, a nonprofit called
Google's quantum computer chrushes supercomputer in calculation
Google says that its 54-qubit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years. That would mean the calculation, which involved generated random numbers, is essentially impossible on a traditional, non-quantum computer. William Oliver of
These eye drops could soon help improve your vision
One of the most frustrating parts of growing older is not being able to read the small print as well as you used to. Fortunately, for those fed up with squinting at menus in poorly lit restaurants, there may soon be a solution: vision-improving eye drops. The eye drops, created
Renewable electricity overtakes fossil fuels in UK for first time
🌬️ The renewables record was set in the third quarter of this year after its share of the electricity mix rose to 40%. 🏭 It is the first time that electricity from British windfarms, solar panels and renewable biomass plants has surpassed fossil fuels since the UK’s first power plant fired
Eye drops that reverse poor vision are one step closer to market
Eye drops that can reverse poor vision is one step closer to market after showing to improve farsightedness in a clinical trial. ️Farsightedness is extremely common, occurring in more than half of individuals over the age of 45. The drops offer temporary relief reversal of farsightedness. Their effects can be
The World's Largest Wind Power Blades Are Installed
🌬️ The world’s largest wind power blade, 107 meters or 351 feet, is being installed. ♻️ It’s part of theGE Renewable Energy project, developingthe world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine. 🌊 This turbine is placed onshore to collect data. First commercial wind turbine of this class will be available in
Humpback whales have returned from the brink of extinction
🐳 Humpback whales in the Southwest Atlantic almost became extinct, but the numbers are now almost back to where they started a hundred years ago. 🐋 It was estimated that some 27,000 humpbacks frequented the southwest Atlantic at the start of the 20th century, but due to intensive commercial whaling, those
Huge study finds this cheap drug could save thousands of head injury patients
UK doctors have discovered that a cheap and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year if it was routinely given to people brought into hospitals with head injuries. The drug is called Tranexamic acid, and it apparently helps stop the bleeding in and around the
Surgeon successfully conducts world’s first remote heart surgery
While robotics entered the world of medicine almost two decades ago, using robots to perform complicated surgical operations from a distance has been a pipe dream – that is up until now. Thanks to a new technological breakthrough, a surgeon in India has successfully performed the first remote heart surgery on