A rendering shows how the buses could look once in use. One of the U.K.’s biggest public transport operators is to trial the use of zero-emission buses from Arrival, a firm specializing in the production of commercial electric vehicles in so-called “microfactories.” In a statement Monday, First Bus, which is part of the larger FirstGroup,
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Jack Dorsey, chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., speaks during an Empowering Entrepreneurs events at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Cole Burston | Bloomberg | Getty Images Square bought $170 million worth of Bitcoin, the company revealed in its fiscal fourth quarter financial report on Tuesday.
Thunderstorms spew out gamma rays — these scientists want to know why, read by Benjamin Thompson Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 Gamma rays – the highest-energy electromagnetic radiation in the universe – are typically created in extreme outer space environments like supernovae. But back in the 1980s and 1990s, physicists
People with extremist views aren’t only identified by their political, religious, or social beliefs, according to new research. Those ideological convictions run deep, scientists say – so deep, in fact, that they can be recognised in a ‘psychological signature’ of cognitive traits and aptitudes that typifies the thinking patterns of the extremist mind. “There appear
Rock from Mars is a rare and precious resource here on Earth. So far, the only samples we have are chunks of meteorite, dislodged from the red planet and travelling through the Solar System until they smack into Earth. A small piece of this invaluable stuff has just been put to a fascinating use: Scientists
Novoloop’s high-performance TPU, XIRC, is highly elastic. Jennifer Leahy A California company says it’s developed the world’s first thermoplastic polyurethane made from post-consumer polyethylene waste. The stuff has mechanical performance properties comparable to commercial, virgin-grade thermoplastic polyurethane (aka TPUs). In other words, the company called Novoloop is taking things like grocery bags, food packaging, bubble
WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 booster failed to land after its most recent launch Feb. 15 because of “heat damage” it sustained, but a SpaceX official said he was confident that the boosters can be reused 10 or more times. During a session of the 47th Spaceport Summit Feb. 23, Hans Koenigsmann, senior adviser for
In 2020, philanthropic donations by major donors saw an almost 7 percent increase on a year-to-date basis. As companies direct more of their money to external charitable causes, internally decision-makers are assessing how the companies’ philanthropic efforts tie into their values, corporate responsibilities and sustainability strategies. For many, this includes weaving sustainability into their already
Walk with JB Straubel through the Redwood Materials recycling plant in Carson City, Nevada and one thing stands out: Pallets stacked on top of pallets filled with old batteries, defective battery cells and scrap material from the nearby Panasonic plant. “The sheer magnitude of the waste and scrap problem and the magnitude of batteries that
Join the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) for a webinar series to learn about DOE’s work to develop and demonstrate technologies that enable solar plus energy storage and demand response. Utilities, researchers, and solar industry stakeholders are encouraged to attend to learn how these projects optimized the overall performance of
Tesla, led by Elon Musk, confirmed that it purchased about $ 1.5 billion in bitcoin in January and expects to start accepting it as a payment in the future. Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images Tesla’s share price is now directly linked to the price of bitcoin after Elon Musk’s company invested $1.5 billion
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here The Joint European Torus has started conducting experiments with tritium fuel.Credit: EUROfusion (CC BY 4.0) A mini version of ITER — the world’s biggest nuclear-fusion experiment — is gearing up to start pivotal fuel tests. The
In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a rock shelter above the Drysdale River. In a paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour, we date the artwork as being between 17,500 and 17,100 years old – making it Australia’s oldest known in-situ
Tiny, all-but-undetectable primordial black holes could be one of the mysterious sources of mass that contributes to dark matter. There are significant limits to their lifespan in open space, but in recent years, astrophysicists have asked: what if these black holes are in the core of neutron stars? Gradually, such black holes would accrete the
Any game that is assembled from open-source software and allows the public to download its source code is considered an open-source game. To put it another way, an open-source game can be downloaded and changed by programmers, game developers, or anyone interested. It seems simple enough, however, as games become more complex open-source game creation
WASHINGTON — Two startups are partnering on technology that they hope can jump-start the market for in-space refueling of satellites. Orbit Fab and Benchmark Space Systems announced Feb. 23 that they are teaming up to provide the capability to refuel Benchmark’s thrusters with hydrogen peroxide propellant provided by an Orbit Fab tanker in low Earth
A few years into Danone’s and General Mills’ regenerative agriculture pilots, one thing has become clear: It’s about data collection. Holistically changing our agriculture system to become more sustainable comes later. “We really don’t have a great understanding of what happens when farmers make these transitions to regenerative systems,” said Steven Rosenzweig, senior soil scientist
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GUANGZHOU, China — In mid-2019, Huawei launched its own operating system — HarmonyOS — in response to U.S. actions that cut it off from Google software. It was the Chinese technology giant’s most ambitious mobile software push, one it hoped would help its handset business to survive. On Monday, Huawei announced that HarmonyOS would begin
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