Google's Project Green Light uses AI and the vast amount of Google Maps traffic data to identify efficiencies in traffic schedules in cities that can deliver 30% less stopping and 10% less traffic emissions.
Big Think published an explainer about how the plasticity of the brain can impact on learning, and how repetition can cause structural changes in the brain to make learning easier.
In 1799, Edmund Fry published the book Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World. The digitised version of the book is now available to view on the Public Domain Review and contains some fantastic runes, include many Irish ones (p.164) I haven't come across before.
Wexford man Michael Fortune interviewed older people in Wexford and asked them to recall their Halloween memories and stories. He captured their answers on video, which are wonderful to watch. The videos of these interviews have been collated by Irish Central.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the existence of free floating pairs of Jupiter size planets, unconnected to any stars in the Orion nebula, nicknamed JuMBOs (Jupiter Mass Binary Objects).
Engineers at MIT and in China have developed a passive water desalination solution using solar power that produces 4 to 6 litres of filtered water per hour, without salt clogging up the system using currents that mimic ocean currents.
Catherine Cleary of The Irish Times tells the fantastic story about how her and her husband decided to build a forest by buying the cheapest suitable land they could find and plant 27 acres of native trees as a form of Climate Action.
Scientists at CERN developed an experiment to test if gravity influences anti-matter in the same manner as with matter. The elaborate technical experiment found, using lots of magnets, that anti-matter is indeed influenced by gravity.
