The Rasa is a prototype hydrogen car that, like the drone mentioned yesterday, emits only water vapour. It is produced by start-up Riversimple in Llandrindod Wells, UK, and instead of using pellets like the drone, it is designed around a fuel cell requiring 10 times less power than an ordinary car. This keeps the vehicle cruising, but …
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For 10 minutes the first flight by an aircraft, powered fully by solid hydrogen, has stayed in the air. It is an experimental drone and runs on pellets that emit only water vapour when they burn. The fuel cell is also three times as light as a comparable lithium battery. Previously, large tanks of liquid …
Over the past 12 years, Novobiotic Pharmaceuticals has cultivated 50,000 strains of microorganism no one else could. And they’ve discovered 25 new antibiotics. One made headlines a year ago because it kills bugs in a new way, and one to which it is much more difficult for bacteria to develop resistance. These 25 antibiotics will not necessarily …
“Go out of the world as you entered it. The same passage that you made from womb to life, without feeling or fright, make again from life to death. Your death is part of the order of the universe, the life of the world”. (Montaigne) Epicurus teaches us that death is nothing to fear. Life …
Tech start-ups are supposedly a paradise for “talent”, with their “nap pods”, Cordon Bleu chefs and yoga classes. But not everyone benefits from the “pay-and-perks arms race” under way in Silicon Valley. Indeed, last year a survey of 5,000 tech workers found that many feel “alienated, trapped, underappreciated and otherwise discombobulated”: only 19% said they …
