♻️ By 2030, IKEA wants to remove more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than it produces
Last week, IKEA announced their intent to invest $220 million into becoming 'climate positive'. Key areas where these funds will be focused are to be in green energy and reforestation.
💓 Doctors revive a 'dead heart' for transplant in a groundbreaking medical first.
A team of surgeons at Duke University [https://www.duke.edu/] in Durham, NC have become the first in the United States to revive a heart harvested from a deceased donor. The process is known as Donation after Circulatory Death, or DCD and is performed with a technique to run
🌊 🔋 A water battery is cutting electric costs nearly in half
A giant, 3-story water battery has been in use at an Australian University [https://www.usc.edu.au/], powering its air conditioning systems, and has already cut electrical usage by a whopping 40%. A first of its kind, the battery stores energy generated by the 6,000 solar panels placed
🗺️ Researchers can detect earthquakes using underwater internet cables
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have turned 20 kilometers of fiber-optic cable into the equivalent of 10,000 seismic stations along the ocean floor. They recorded a 3.5 magnitude earthquake from underwater fault zones.
⚡ Japan has a monumental plan to reinvent Fukushima as a renewable energy hub
Japan has plans in place to convert the devastated areas of Fukushima into a hub for renewable energy, replacing the former nuclear plant with solar and wind farms.
📭 Drones delivering prescription medicine to residential doorsteps for the first time
Last month UPS announced that it was the first to receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its full drone airline. It allowed them to expand upon their small drone delivery pilot programs into a nation wide network.
👨⚕️ Surgeons place trauma patients in suspended animation for the first time
Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death.
🌍 Africa is the world’s fastest-growing continent for software developers
As tech ecosystems and hubs continue to sprout across Africa, an accompanying effect has been an a big increase in local software engineering talent. So big in fact, that Microsoft is investing over $100 million [https://qz.com/africa/1618874/microsoft-opens-africa-development-centre-in-kenya-and-nigeria/] to open its first development centers on the continent
🎪 German Circus Uses Holograms Instead Of Live Animals For A Cruelty-Free Magical Experience
German Circus Roncalli has done something truly spectacular. They have swapped out horses, lions and elephants for holograms. Circus Rocalli decided to make drastic changes in aid of fighting animal cruelty in the booming industry.