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Cargo Ship That Captures Its Own Exhaust CO2

Shipping company Solvang have deployed a carbon capture system on their Clipper Eris ship that will capture up to 70% of the CO2 produced by the ship's exhaust. The system is being tested in a 2 year pilot scheme.

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Climate Adaptation Capability Framework

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Adaptation Scotland published an updated Climate Adaptation Capability Framework handbook and starter pack, aimed and helping Scotland's public sector to identify and action climate adaptation. It provides an easy to understand framework that can be used by any organisation.

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Heat Related Death Projections In Europe

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Temperature changes across 4 climate change scenarios have been analysed to project the amount of temperature related deaths from 2015 to 2099 in 854 European cities. The paper published in Nature Medicine states that "with no adaptation to heat, the increase in heat-related deaths consistently exceeds any decrease in cold-related deaths across all considered scenarios in Europe".

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Strong As Steel & Light As Foam Nano Material

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Researchers at the University of Toronto and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology used machine learning to design a nano-material that is strong as steel and light as foam and can be 3D printed at the micro and nano scale.

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Deep Dive On DeepSeek

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Azeem Azhar published a great piece on the Exponential View describing the new AI open source DeepSeek R1 model, how it compares to other models, and what effect it most likely will have on the AI landscape.

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Affordable Homes 3D Printed In 12 Days In Louth

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Affordable homes in Louth were built in 12 days using the COBOL 3D printer.

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5 Climate Actions For Universities

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Within the DCU Institute for Climate & Society's regular newsletter, DCU Sustainability Manager Samantha Fahy published a list of 5 things that universities can do in 2025 to accelerate climate action, including a sector wide mandatory climate module, implementing mandatory standards rather than voluntary initiatives, and to address the meaning crisis.

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Single Image to 3D Model Generator

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Tencent launched their Hunyuan3D 2.0 AI 3D model generator that can turn single images or text descriptions into 3D models.

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Video AI Generator Convinces With BTS Clips

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Using Google Deepmind's Veo 2 text to video AI generator, László Gaál created a fake Porche ad, complete with behind-the-scenes (BTS) making of the film shots. Everything except the person being interviewed in the ad is fake and was generated using text prompts with Veo 2.

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Pointy Shoes That Were Blamed For The Black Death

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Moral panics have been happening at least as far back as 1100 when the clergy warned against the wearing of pointy shoes called Poulaines. The shoes were worn by nobles, grew pointier and pointier, and were eventually seen as the epitome of the "impropriety of the behaviour of men", which was deduced as the cause of The Black Death in 1348.

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