Technology
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Technology Switzerland14. August 2020“Ultra-Rare” Decay Process May Help Solve the Mysteries of Our Universe
Scientists at Switzerland's European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), one of the largest scientific research centers, have found the first evidence of a rare particle decay of a positively charged kaon - which may finally help explain dark matter and other mysteries of the universe!
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Technology India8. August 2020Power from the Sun Brings Water to Poor Farmers
As part of a project by the Transform Rural India Foundation, a non-profit based in New Delhi, India, about 30 farmers installed a new solar-powered irrigation system to help diversify their crops in an eco-friendly way - and prevent work migration at the same time.
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Technology United Kingdom7. August 2020Archeologists Look Back Into Time with Super High-Tech, Find New Secret at Stonehenge
Archeologists have made a sensational discovery of a series of deep pits at the mystical Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, UK with the help of super high technology, allowing them to look even further back into time.
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Technology East Timor3. August 2020Air and Sunlight Is All This Island Needs to Make Clean Water
A project launched in June is tackling the water shortages faced in the remote little island of Atauro, located off the coast of Asia's East Timor, through a technology that transforms sunlight and air into drinking water.
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Technology Kenya2. August 2020Corona: Solar Power Keeps People Safe During Blackouts
Kenya’s rural villages have been suffering from increasing blackouts as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. But a switch to solar power is helping families and their electricity-deprived neighbors keep their lights on.
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Environment Bangladesh1. August 2020“Solar-Sharing” Might Save a Billion Dollars as Neighbors Share Their Power
Homes with excess, unused solar energy can now share their power with their neighbors, thanks to a start-up in Bangladesh whose mission is to curb more than a billion dollars' worth of energy waste each year.
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Technology Kenya31. July 2020Balloons in the Stratosphere Give Internet to People Who Never Had It Before
Africa’s first application of balloon-powered internet has kicked off in Kenya, providing tens of thousands of people with cheaper access to a 4G LTE network connection in comparison to constructing cell towers for the same purpose.
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Society Nigeria17. July 2020Corona: 300,000 Children Will Get Free Phones to Keep Learning
When schools in Lagos, Nigeria closed in March as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, lessons over radio, television and the internet became the norm, which many of the poorer students had little access to – until now.
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Technology United Kingdom4. July 2020Trees Get More Interesting As People Are Locked Down
An online tree mapping app in London, England featuring details of more than 700,000 trees – including their location and species – has seen fifty times more visitors since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.
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Health Israel1. July 2020These Contact Lenses Make Life Colorful for the Color Blind
Frequency-filtering sunglasses have been the go-to fix when it comes to some types of color blindness – but two engineers in Israel have found a way to implement color-correcting films directly onto contact lenses!