This Spanish company has created a lightweight portable functional solar panel

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• Technology
• Environment

by Marc Prats

Posted on November 7, 2018

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‘Top Innovations’ is the company behind the solar panel that you can see above. Its creator, Jesus Guijarro, claims he created this portable panel to make solar powered electricity more accessible to everyone.   This patented solar panel is modular as it triples in size when opening up the side-panels and it includes a manually-lifted powerful spotlight

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This might be the simplest way to help medical researchers, and you only need your phone

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• Technology

by Marc Prats

Posted on October 22, 2018

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It is shocking to see how much funding new technologies are getting every single day, while others are getting less and less

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Discover the new air-filtering buses in the UK

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• Technology
• Environment

by Marc Prats

Posted on October 8, 2018

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Could you imagine a busy city with no pollution? Go-Ahead Group has put a plan in place for city buses to start filtering the air as they drive around. Public transportation is one of the best ways to move around and one of the most environmentally healthy means of transport due to the large number of people they can carry at the same time

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Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train

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• Technology

by Isabel Rubio

Posted on September 25, 2018

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The world's first hydrogen-powered train has just been launched for commercial use in Germany, it is another victory in the shift towards sustainability.The Coradia iLint passenger train, which was developed by rail transport, can travel 600 miles (1,000km) on a single tank of hydrogen. Using special fuel cells, the trains generate energy through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, with excess energy stored in lithium ion batteries

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A new educational platform to learn better

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• Technology
• Education

by Marina Morgó

Posted on August 19, 2018

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Researchers from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) worked in primary schools in Thailand to test how a specially designed Internet of Educational Things (IoET) device could improve both active learning engagement and outcomes. To do this, the researchers developed a platform called OBSY (Observation Learning System) that featured several components, such as a light reader and temperate monitor, which could then send data wirelessly to computers the children had already been provi…

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Sweden opens the first electric road that charges your vehicle while driving

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• Technology

by Marina Morgó

Posted on August 7, 2018

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Sweden has inaugurated the first section of an electric road designed to recharge the battery of zero-emission cars. The project, called eRoadArlanda, consists of a two-kilometer stretch of a road near Stockholm that connects the Arlanda airport and a logistics center outside the capital and where rails have been installed on the asphalt. Also, battery vehicles that have been tested have a mobile arm to connect to the track

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Record: installed in Chihuahua 18,990 solar panels in a day!

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• Heroes
• Technology
• Environment
• Society
• Science

by Rosa Ruiz

Posted on July 23, 2018

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"Mexico achieved a new world record: The largest number of solar panels installed in a single day," the WEF described in the video it posted on its social networks.   He adds that "they are building one of the largest solar parks in Latin America," while exhibiting images of the Italian company Enel Green Power.   This solar park "measures what 2 thousand 200 football fields" and "will eventually have more than 2 million solar panels" that seek the sun as if they were sunflowers, t…

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First 3D color radiograph

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• Technology
• Science

by Marina Morgó

Posted on July 16, 2018

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Scientist of New Zeland carried out the entire first 3D color radiograph on a human, using a technique that promises to improve the field.Colored X-rays work like cameras because they have shutters that, when open, detect different particles that hit their pixels

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Versius: the robot that performs better surgeons in less time

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• Technology
• Science

by Marina Morgó

Posted on July 13, 2018

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Trainee surgeons usually require more than 60 hours of practice. But this is going to be over in the future, thanks to robots and CMR (Cambridge Medical Robotics). Versius is the world’s smallest surgical robot, which could be used in NHS operating theatres for the first time later this year if approved for clinical use

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