by Warp Institute | Jan 4, 2021 | 🛰 Space
When particles from the sun hit the earth’s atmosphere, they can give rise to fantastic northern lights. But they can also damage satellites in orbit and, in the worst case, disrupt the power grids down to earth. To better understand how the solar wind and...
by Warp Institute | Jan 3, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech
The dream of a rejuvenation cure has taken a step closer to becoming a reality. A research team from UC San Francisco has tested a drug that improves both memory and the cognitive abilities of mice .In one experiment, mice of different ages found a hidden platform in...
by Warp Institute | Jan 3, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech, 🍔 Food Tech, 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
The fruits, berries, vegetables and herbs of the future are grown at height, indoors. They produce as much on one hectare as traditional agriculture does on almost four hundred. The crops are of course supported by robots and AI to optimize irrigation, temperature,...
by Warp Institute | Jan 2, 2021 | 🍔 Food Tech
Deforestation in the Amazon reached its highest level since 2008 last year. But there are some joys. One is that the fellings are still less than half as large as they were in 2004. Another is the Amazon Soy Moratorium (ASM) project. According to a new study from UC...
by Warp Institute | Jan 2, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress
Today’s atomic clocks are so accurate that if they were built at the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago, they would only have lasted half a second today . But even the enormous precision is not enough for a research team from MIT that has now developed...
