Innovation
🎈 Google’s giant hot air balloons are creating internet connections in Kenya
Together with Telecom Kenya, Loons balloons cover an area of almost 50,000 square kilometers and reach millions of people.According to Loon’s tests in June, the speeds look to be quite good. Up 4.74 megabits per second and down 18.9 mbps.It all started in 2013...
😷 Face mask in nine languages
In many parts of the world, people have taken on the face mask in their everyday lives – whether it is virus pandemics or air pollution that should be kept at a distance.But when everyone wears masks, it becomes undeniably difficult to hear what people are...
🌟 Swedish researchers have a new method for producing cooking oil – using electricity and carbon dioxide
Could it be a competitor to palm oil?Chemistry researchers Magnus Westergren and Anders Lorén describe the process as an electrical photosynthesis. Patents have already been granted for the method.This cooking oil could be made locally, in conjunction with large...
🥇 Young scientist wins Google Science Fair – his method removes eighty seven percent of microplastics from our water
Eighteen-year-old Fionn Ferreira started working on the idea when he realized that there was no working method for cleaning microplastics from wastewater. But, how much plastic is there in the water we release and what kinds of plastic is it? A spectrometer could...
