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Small-scale Wastewater Treatment Could Be the Best Solution
According to the International Monetary fund (IMF), there are currently 152 countries that make up the developing world. Although water scarcity is an issue that will affect every nation worldwise, for the people in the developing world, water pollution is…
Spring: A Breath of Fresh Air in Tech
In every single household, there’s a forgotten drawer that no one dares to open. A drawer in the kitchen or at the bottom of a shelf in our room. A drawer that is the cemetery of electronic devices. If you…
Turning Trash into Treasure: a New Tech bringing Urban Mining Closer to Fruition
A team of researchers from Rice University in Houston, Texas have identified a novel application for a method originally created to produce graphene - extracting valuable metals from electronic waste. The electronic waste (or e-waste) industry poses a huge problem.…
India’s AgTech Landscape: Ripe for a change
India’s agricultural industry is a market ready for innovation. Over the last 50 years the country has seen its agricultural productivity grow at a phenomenal rate, outpacing even its population growth. Now, the nation is the world’s second largest producer…
Wind Energy’s Dirty Secret May Have A Solution
Wind energy has been increasing in popularity as more individuals, businesses and governments try to achieve their climate goals and become sustainable and green. However, this technology might no be as clean as we thought. The problem lays with the…
Researchers make Synthetic Starch out of Carbon Dioxide
Rice, potatoes, maize, corn. All seem relatively innocuous foods that we often need not think about twice. Yet they all make a foundational carbohydrate that not only forms a crucial part of the human diet, but is also a primary…