During COP27 people across the world flew to Sharm El Sheikh to discuss action on climate change. Aviation is a crucial way to bring us together to tackle this challenge – but it is also a major contributor to the problem.
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Cybernetics can help to create a safe, sustainable and responsible future in a complex world.
‘Smart Circularity’—the circular economy as it relates to connected technology and the IoT—can help the world shift away from linear consumption to an economy where resources are fed back into a closed loop of recycling, reusing and sharing.
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Monitoring different industrial quantities, and understanding what this data might represent, is important to many sectors – from manufacturing, transportation, and logistics, to mining, energy and utilities, among others.
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Human activity, from climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction, to poaching, territorial conflict, and trophy hunting, has seen the IUCN’s list of endangered species balloon to more than 147,000 in recent years, with 41,000 species threatened with extinction.
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A project at DTU Risø Campus shows that heat recovery is the most sustainable and economical choice—even at a time of rising electricity prices.
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ETH postdoc Olivier Gröninger is improving the drinking water supply for people in rural areas of South America with his Openversum project. This benefits not only the families but also the local economy and the climate
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The focus on design engineering is shifting with a huge demand from customers for more sustainable products. Protolabs believe that experts from both industry and academia can be brought together to share their expertise with others - the online knowledge sharing InspirON series meets this need.
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During the pandemic, the IoT was pivotal in keeping countless businesses and organizations functional in a locked-down world. And it’s not an overstatement to say that before the arrival of vaccines, the IoT helped the world survive the pandemic.
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Sustainable fuels are based on green hydrogen and carbon dioxide - and should make a significant contribution to decarbonising sectors such as aviation, where fossil fuels are particularly difficult to replace.
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When lightning strikes water, then water has a temporary disinfecting effect. Even rain during a thunderstorm has this short-lived effect. Start-up VitalFluid, located at HTC 25, mimics this natural phenomenon.
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MCG Advanced Materials Division and Wevolver will award innovative products / projects that make use of fiber-reinforced composites.
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and the Fashion Institute of Technology team up to create a non-toxic bioleather, inspired by the power of microbes and indigenous science.
The challenges of EV charging must be addressed quickly to ensure the rapid adoption of electric transportation.
The collaborative nature of open source projects brings together people across the world to work towards improving and monitoring our natural resources.
