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Tsunami Trapped In Fjord For 9 Days

In September 2023, a 200m high tsunami sloshed inside a fjord every 92 seconds in Greenland for 9 days, caused by climate change melting ice at the base of a glacier which sent 25 million cubic meters of ice crashing into the water.

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Teenager Builds Nuclear Fusion School Project

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Cesare Mencarini, a 17 year old Italian student, developed a working nuclear fusion reactor for his Extended Project Qualification A-Levels project in Cardiff.

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Coin Toss Proved Not 50/50

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PhD candidate František Bartoš organised 47 volunteers to flip coins 350,757 times over 12 hours, to prove that coin tosses contain a 1% bias for the side visible before the coin is flipped.

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Plastic Eating Enzyme

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French company Carbios are on the verge of scaling the use of a PET plastic eating enzyme, first discovered by Sintawee Sulaiman in the University of Osaka, to recycle 50,000 tonnes of plastic a year.

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Harnessing Heat From Underground Car Parks

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Scientists in Germany and Switzerland measured the ambient air temperature of underground car parks, and the temperature of the groundwater beneath them, and found that those car parks generate a lot of waste heat, which heats the groundwater and impacts on biodiversity and water quality. Extrapolating their findings, the scientists estimate that all 5040 underground car parks in Berlin could heat 14,660 average German homes by harnessing the waste heat using heat pumps.

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Co2 Formate Conversion & Energy Storage

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MIT engineers have developed a new Co2 conversion and storage method which converts the gas into formate crystals and is 96% energy efficient.

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Nanowire AI Better Than Computer AI

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Researchers at the University of Sydney demonstrated that an AI network made of nanowires is more efficient than computer based AI because it can learn and adapt in real time.

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Clean Hydrogen Using 40% Solar Heat

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Engineers at MIT have developed a new heating and cooling reactor train that produces clean hydrogen by harnessing 40% of the solar heat it is exposed to. The technology can be scaled up to by adding more reactors to the train.

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14 Year Old Invents Skin Cancer Treating Soap

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14 year old Heman Bekele won the America's Top Scientist competition by inventing a soap that can be used to treat skin cancer, which contains compounds that could reactivate dendritic cells to protect the skin.

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Brain Plasticity & Learning

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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.

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