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A group of scientists from Fermilab, AT&T, Harvard University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Calgary have achieved long-distance quatum teleportation. This is the first recorded event of…

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Scientists Design A Thermochromatic Window That Can Turn Sunlight Into Electricity

Posted on December 28, 2020December 28, 2020
byKeith Bradford

You’ve probably seen thermochromatic items before, like mood rings, transition eye glasses, or those cups change color when heat is added. But the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy…

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There Are Tiny Bugs Living On Your Face Right Now

Posted on September 19, 2019
byJill Summerville

In 2004, Dove, an American cosmetics company based in New Jersey, launched its Real Beauty campaign. The campaign was designed to show that the criteria used to determine whether or…

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Scientists Create Benches That Can Clean As Much Air As A Small Forest

Posted on August 21, 2019
byKeith Bradford

London has long suffered from poor air quality, dating back from Medieval times to the Great Smog, and seems to have never recovered. The capital city usually breaks the air…

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Scientists Develop Contact Lenses That Can Change Focus And Zoom When You Blink

Posted on August 15, 2019
byJill Summerville

When Salvino d’Armate invented eyeglasses circa 1285, he probably couldn’t have imagined that his invention would still be helping people in the twenty-first century. Roughly sixty-four percent of the world’s…

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Baltimore’s “Mr Trash Wheel” Has Already Scooped Up 150 Miles Of Cigarette Butts From Their Harbour

Posted on July 19, 2019
byRebecca Whittaker

Millions of pounds of trash floats in the Baltimore harbour, harming fish and wildlife in the area, but a solution to this plastic pollution has been found in the form…

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Michigan Man Discovers Mysterious Glow in the Dark Stones

Posted on July 11, 2019
bySarah Denhof

Walking along the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in June 2017, Eric Rintamaki saw something unusual: stones that were glowing in the dark. A self-professed “rock hound”,…

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Waste House: The House Built From A Landfill

Posted on July 4, 2019July 4, 2019
byRebecca Whittaker

What do you do with your old toothbrushes and jeans? Most of us would throw them away only to end up in landfill and our oceans. However, at the University…

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16-Psyche: The Asteroid That Could Collapse The World Economy

Posted on June 25, 2019June 25, 2019
bySarah Denhof

Since NASA has announced plans for its upcoming mission launch in 2022, the world has been getting psyched to meet Psyche. But this isn’t Cupid’s lover who was killed by…

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Canadian Students Create Device That Can Generate Electricity From Snowfall

Posted on June 22, 2019June 25, 2019
bySarah Denhof

With an energy crisis looming, scientists are turning an eye to another source of clean, renewable energy: Snow. Yes, snow is electrically charged. People who live in snowy climates may…