Tag: #26

Wherever you go, go with all your heart - Confucius once said. Clearly, a Danish architecture student was listening. Shocked by the scarcity of affordable clean drinking water on his trip to Chile, he developed a ceiling light with a dual function. During the day the bowl-shaped light is filled with seawater, which is desalinized using solar energy from...

Smart Home applications regulate our heating and shutters so that we feel comfortable in our homes. Plants also require optimal temperatures to flourish. That's why greenhouses exist. Still, while plants need every ray of sun in winter, in summer things can often get too hot. Cue a Dutch PhD student and his intelligent windows. These can automatically adapt their...

Blue sky, sunshine - and our mood is tip-top. But for some, even the summer weather isn't a reason to get out of bed. From the outside it’s impossible to say when a mood disorder first presents. Which is precisely why researchers at Indiana University have developed a blood test for those affected. Using RNA markers, the test can...

A sky full of stars - a rare sight for city-dwellers on a clear night. Artificial light sources prevent the night sky from being seen in all its glory. Now a Dutch-based design firm has developed a streetlight concept that could combat light pollution. The lamp is inspired by the way grass sways in the wind and resembles a...

A patient student can fold a paper airplane in about three minutes. For a set of wheels that figure is multiplied by almost two million. Together with an international team specialising in Biorobotics, a South Korean manufacturer has developed a set of unfoldable wheels. For reinforcement the team used thick, flexible composite membranes along with aluminium parts. If the...

All you need to test whether eggs are still fresh is a glass of water. But for people whose sense of taste has been affected by cancer or Covid, even fresh eggs can still taste rotten. Which is why a 27-year-old chef has put together a book of recipes which combines insights from the London-based Centre for the Study...