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History Repeats Itself as British Authorities Get to Decide Who the Terrorists Are. Kneecap Abú. Saoirse Don Phalastín.
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University of Maryland spinout InventWood have developed a new treated wood that has 50% more tensile strength than steel and a strength to weight ratio that is 10 times better than steel. The company uses chemicals to change the molecular structure of the wood, and then increases the hydrogen bonds between cellulose molecules using compression.
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BBC Future published a piece highlighting different systems around the world that are stuck using old tech and operating systems. Apparently the automatic train control system of San Francisco's Muni Metro boot up every morning from DOS using a floppy disk.
Scientists from the University of Turin have shown that snapdragon flowers increase production of sugar and nectar when the sound of bees was played near them.
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McKinsey published a post defining criteria to use when comparing and evaluating different qubit implementations, such as computation speed, cooling, and control at scale.
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Net Zero Tracker displays the progress of net zero plans achieved, in law, in policy, pledged, proposed, or missing across countries, cities, and companies around the world.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.
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