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Virgin Hyperloop Passenger Test

Virgin Hyperloop conducted its first test with passengers. Virgin Hyperloop co-founder Josh Giegel and Director of Passenger Experience Sara Luchian were the first to travel on the 500 meter long test track at 387kmph.

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Ear Wax Cortisol Detection

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A team of researches led by Dr. Andres Herane-Vives in University College London have developed a cheap and effective way to measure chronic cortisol levels using ear wax. The historical presence of cortisol in ear wax can be used to monitor depression and possible other conditions like COVID-19 antibodies.

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Feathered Drone

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A team at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have created a winged and feathered drone that can change the position of its wings to control speed and maneuverability during flight. In other drone news, a team at Imperial College London have created a drone that can shoot darts with sensors on them.

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3D Printed Textiles

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MIT media lab student Jack Forman used the under extrusion of a 3D printer to print a flexible textile material. Under-extrusion is when not enough plastic is consistently poured from the nozzle of a 3D printer, resulting in gaps in the printed material. By purposefully introducing these gaps, the printed material is solid and flexible. Check out the demo video which shows rolls of material being printed as well as applications like clothing and shuttlecocks.

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Efficient Solar Panel Patterns

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Researchers from the University of York have tested the efficiency of patterns on solar panels for energy absorption and have discovered a pattern that can increase absorption by 125%!

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Hum To Search

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The Google app now lets you hum a piece of a song into it to find out the name of the song. Die earworm, die!

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Lab In A Box

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Staff and students of the Physics department in Imperial College London have converted a series of physics experiment equipment into a portable lab in a box which can be sent to any student around the world.

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Microsoft Underwater Datacentre

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In 2018, Microsoft submerged a datacentre in the waters off Orkney in Scotland. The tube held 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage and was intended to test the resilience of operating a data centre 117 feet in the ocean. It has now reached its end of life and has been resurfaced to begin the recyling stage of the project.

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Bill Gates On Vehicles

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Bill Gates published a blog post about his thoughts on the future of transport, in particularly vehicle transport. Electric vehicles are great for short haul, provided the efficiency of battery weight to range is improved. He sees the future of long-haul transport in biofuels, that can take CO2 from the atmosphere and combine with water to create hydrogen without any waste. These biofuels power vehicles and extract CO2 from the air, a win win!

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Lockpicking With Sound

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Researchers at the National Unviersity of Singapore have developed a system called SpiKey that can predict 10 possible options of a key design just by recording the sound of a key in a lock. Of the 586,584 possible key combinations for a 6-pin lock, SpiKey can be used on approx. 56% of them to generate candidate key options that will open the lock.

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