Stanford needs you to play video games. Seriously. In order to improve CRISPR, the famous gene-editing tool, a research group at the Stanford University School of Medicine has created a new challenge for their online video game, EteRNA.
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China Aims to Leave the Hyperloop in the Dust with Supersonic Train
It’s hard to avoid headlines about Elon Musk. Just in the last few months, Elon and company released the Tesla Model 3, made a colossal energy deal with Australia, and drove a tech-savvy tiny house around the “land down under.” Even if you’re sick of hearing about Musk, it’s hard to deny the hype surrounding the man; he clearly has a “Midas touch.” Just look at our latest reviews for the Tesla Model 3, Powerwall 2, and Model S. But now, China Aerospace Science and Industry (CASIC) is challenging Musk’s Hyperloop with a concept of their own. If it works, it will leave Musk in the dust.
China’s Solar Energy Goal for 2020 Already Shattered in July 2017
China’s solar energy goal was 105GW. Now, the nation says, they’ll need to rework those numbers because of their solar rush. This has spurred renewable energy groups to call out Europe to increase its 27% renewable power target to 35% for 2020.
C.F. Møller Designs Sustainable School in Copenhagen
Whether it’s Dubai’s 1,378-foot self-sustaining Da Vinci tower or Harvard Engineer Jeff Wilson’s 352-square foot Kasita Home, the world is beginning to embrace the green construction industry. From eco-friendly architectural firms to robotic brick layers to recyclable building materials, wasteful construction sites and energy-sucking skyscrapers are being replaced by fully sustainable structures.
Case and point: The fully sustainable Copenhagen International School by C.F. Møller
Green Cat’s sCarabane Uses Solar and Wind Energy for Off-Grid Living
The idea of glamping (camping glamorously) has gone from parody to practice in recent years. Concurrently, the options available for green living have also multiplied. Ecocapsules will arrive in 2018, Volkswagen’s sustainable microbus is coming in 2022, and a Tesla tiny house is currently touring Australia. More recently, France’s Green Cat Technologies revealed the concept for the sCarabane. This self-sustaining caravan unfolds into a spacious camping area that utilizes solar and wind power to make you feel right at home.
No Remote Needed: BBC Develops a Mind-Control Headset for Your TV
For as long as science fiction has existed, we’ve dreamt of being able to harness the power of mind-control. This is becoming more reality than fiction these days. The number of fanciful possibilities based on this idea is infinite. Imagine driving with your mind, ordering pizza by concentrating, or playing a video game with nothing but your HTC Vive and thoughts. But one power you probably didn’t think of is changing the TV channel just by thinking. Couch potatoes, rejoice! BBC is developing a mind-control headset for your TV.
Blockchain Startup Winding Tree Aims to Revolutionize the Travel Industry
We’re in the middle of vast disruption across many industries. Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain are the main ingredients to many of these changes. And yet, somehow, one industry has managed to remain rigid in the face of revolution – the travel industry. It is not due to lack of effort, though. Many startups have tried their luck. But because of the virtual monopoly that the current big players have over the industry, progression seems impossible. Winding Tree, a new Blockchain startup, aims to change that by cutting out the “middle man.”
MIT Breaks Nuclear Fusion Record and Improves It by Ten Fold
Solar energy has been the attention-grabber in the crowded field of alternative energy for the last few years. But researchers at MIT and several other institutions discovered a new way to make plasma fuel hot enough to generate nuclear fusion power.
WayRay Thinks Augmented Reality Will Be Mainstream in Cars by 2025
Vitaly Ponomarev, WayRay’s Founder and CEO, thinks that this hardware is throttling our advancement towards “true” augmented reality. “It’s almost impossible to shove the high rendering performance, convenience, and good quality wide-angled picture into a small form factor.” Ponomarev defines true AR as “AR that shows virtual objects to be actually integrated with the real environment and visible on various depths, not only on a screen’s surface.”
Elon Musk Unveils SpaceX Spacesuit via Instagram
If you’re a follower of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Instagram, you were in for a sneak peek preview of the company’s fully functional, all-new spacesuit. Space Explorations Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), the commercial space transportation startup, has designed its cutting-edge spacesuit in-house – controlling every part of the supply chain while reducing manufacturing costs. It certainly has paid off. SpaceX now has a working prototype tested in double vacuum pressure – the same conditions astronauts face during their mission into space.
