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160 posts by 21st Century Tech Blog

• If We Could Continue to Generate Enamel We Would Never Have Cavities – August 20, 2023
• Will Robot Window Washers Replace The Person Hanging Outside My Window With a Squeegee and Pail? – August 18, 2023
• Australian Researchers Create Technique for Engineering Blood Vessels Using Natural Tissue – August 15, 2023
• NASA Picks 11 Winners for Moon and Space Projects – August 13, 2023
• Nuclear-Powered Rockets Are One Step Closer to Reality – August 10, 2023
• Space Solar Power Feasibility Demonstrated by Caltech-Launched Satellite – August 9, 2023
• The New Climate Norm: Predictable Unpredictability – August 7, 2023
• Future cities: Urban planners get creative | DW Documentary – August 5, 2023
• Did You Know You Can Create Your Own Wiki — a Mini Wikipedia? – August 3, 2023
• Advancements in Material Science — A DNA Metamaterial, Desiccant Sucking HVAC, and Fungi-based Concrete – August 1, 2023
• Singapore’s Building Technology It Needs for a New Climate Era – August 1, 2023
• Headlines Last Week Linked Aspartame to Cancer — Were They Right? – July 31, 2023
• News About Advances in Sodium-Ion and Solid-State Batteries – July 31, 2023
• Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test – July 17, 2023
• Conversations About AI: Part 4 — Transforming Human Mental Health Management and Addressing Social Good – June 11, 2023
• Conversations About AI — Part 3: Will Personal Assistants Kill Search? – June 5, 2023
• Conversations About AI — Part 2: Can AutoGPT and ChatGPT Replace Me as a Blogger? – June 3, 2023
• Conversations About AI — Part 1: Overcoming Technophobia Through Education – June 2, 2023
• Kids & AI: A Guide To Prepare Them For The Challenges Ahead – May 25, 2023
• Are Large Language Model Generative AIs Sentient, Conscious or Thinking? – May 22, 2023
• Study Offers New Twist in How the First Humans Evolved – May 20, 2023
• Blue Moon Will Join the SpaceX Starship as Lunar Landers for the Artemis Program – May 19, 2023
• The First-to-Fusion Power Wars Are On – May 18, 2023
• Part 2 on the Race to Create a Permanent Human Presence in Low-Earth-Orbit – May 17, 2023
• Part 1 on the Race to Create a Permanent Human Presence in Low-Earth-Orbit – May 15, 2023
• Vienna University of Technology Engineers Invent An Oxygen-Ion Battery – May 14, 2023
• U.S. Midwest to Face Dust Bowl Conditions in the Coming Decades – May 13, 2023
• Canada’s largest oilsands companies being investigated over allegations they made false environmental claims – May 12, 2023
• Aqueos Lithium-Ion Batteries Won’t Catch on Fire — So Why Aren’t They the EV Gold Standard? – May 11, 2023
• If You Fear Artificial Intelligence Taking Over the World Remember Who Controls the Plug – May 6, 2023
• Bioprinting at the Molecular Level and Even DNA – May 5, 2023
• Astronomers witness star devouring a planet: Possible preview of the ultimate fate of Earth – May 4, 2023
• Ask a Generalized AI What The Greatest Threat Is to Our Planet and You Likely Won’t Like the Answer – May 2, 2023
• Semi-Trucks in California Can Now Run on Hydrogen Thanks to Toyota – April 29, 2023
• Voyager 2 is the Eveready Bunny of Spacecraft: It Just Keeps Going and Going – April 27, 2023
• A Health Checkup for the Planet on Earth Day 2023 — Part 1: The State of the Atmosphere – April 22, 2023
• What If There Was A Vaccine To Reduce Bad Cholesterol? – April 21, 2023
• How Advances in Technology Are Addressing Access for Those With Disabilities – April 19, 2023
• OpenAI Has Released a Pandora’s Box With ChatGPT – April 17, 2023
• China Launches Electric Vehicles Running on Sodium-Ion Batteries – April 14, 2023
• Battery Technology Advancing At A Good Clip – April 12, 2023
• What’s Holding Back Solar for Homes in the United States? – April 11, 2023
• After Watching “The Undeclared War” I’m Not Surprised About Calls For A Cyber Force Military Branch – April 8, 2023
• Astrolab’s FLEX Rover Plans To Hitch A Ride To The Moon On A Starship – April 7, 2023
• Religious Rituals Dominate At This Time Of Year Which Raises An Interesting Question – April 5, 2023
• Why Are Many Technology Leaders Calling For An AI Halt? – April 4, 2023
• 3D Printing of Body Parts Gets an Upgrade – April 3, 2023
• At My Physical Last Week My New Family Doctor Offered to Give Me A Weight-Loss Prescription – April 2, 2023
• The Pursuit Of Better Camouflage Could Lead To An Invisibility Cloak – April 1, 2023
• An Update on the Yemeni FSO Safer Oil Tanker in the Red Sea – March 27, 2023
• Was Gordon E. Moore and Moore’s Law Aspirational or Inspirational? – March 26, 2023
• Volvo CE delivers North America’s first machine made using fossil-free steel – March 23, 2023
• Can Plastic Waste Go Away? – March 22, 2023
• Finding A New Use For The Oil Sands —The Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge – March 21, 2023
• Beyond the International Space Station and 2030 What Will Be Happening In Low Orbit? – March 18, 2023
• The Reality Of Deep Sea Mining Is Getting Closer As Are The Consequences – March 16, 2023
• The Anthropocene Has Created A New Disease: Plasticosis – March 15, 2023
• Fossil Fuel Industry Leadership Intends To Stay As “Oily” As Possible Until Forced To Change – March 12, 2023
• How Life First Started Here On Earth With A Peptide – March 11, 2023
• The Batteries You Are Familiar With Are Not The Ones Some Energy Providers Are Building – March 9, 2023
• Getting to Hear Nature in Your Backyard: Introducing Delta – March 8, 2023
• A Win for the World’s Oceans Was Struck Yesterday in New York – March 5, 2023
• New Findings About What Lies Beneath Our Feet – March 3, 2023
• What Food We May Eat At The End Of The 21st Century – March 2, 2023
• Will AI Make First Contact with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence? – March 1, 2023
• The Search for Life Intelligent and Non Beyond Earth – February 26, 2023
• The Evolution of Warfare in the 21st Century — Part Three: When Wars Will Be Fought By Robots And AIs – February 25, 2023
• The Evolution of Warfare in the 21st Century — Part Two: AI on the Battlefield – February 24, 2023
• The Evolution of Warfare in the 21st Century — Part One: Here Come the Drones – February 23, 2023
• A Globalist Billionaire Pitches Geoengineering While Others Propose Putting Particles into the Atmosphere and Space – February 22, 2023
• United Nations Meets Today to Finalize Global Treaty for the Ocean – February 20, 2023
• The Dream of Space Mining Remains Illusory at Present – February 20, 2023
• NASA Has Jumped on the Generative AI Design and Manufacturing Bandwagon – February 19, 2023
• How quickly does COVID immunity fade? What scientists know – February 16, 2023
• The Future is Gas-Alternative Cars – February 14, 2023
• CRISPR for the Masses is Coming — Genetic Vaccines Are In Our Very Near Future – February 13, 2023
• News on the Energy Front — Exxon Continues to Disappoint, An Agrivoltaic Breakthrough, and a New Energy Storage Project – February 12, 2023
• Growing Food on Mars to Support Life from Earth Will Need to Exploit All the Tools in Our Scitech Arsenal – February 11, 2023
• Abandoned Mine Shafts Can Use Gravity to Turn Them Into Giant Batteries – February 8, 2023
• Quebec Hospital Using Virtual Reality to Address Increasing Mental Health Issues from the Pandemic – February 7, 2023
• Are We Closer to Non-Surgical Repairs for Osteoarthritic Knees? – February 6, 2023
• What is Futurecrafting? – February 5, 2023
• Even An AI Is Telling Us We Have Already Missed Making The Paris Climate Agreement 1.5 Celsius Target – February 3, 2023
• Our Obsession with AI Continues as ChatGPT Dominates Discussions in Academia and Business – February 1, 2023
• Researchers Invent a Wearable Ultrasound Patch to Provide Real-Time Pictures of the Heart – January 31, 2023
• The Word “Quantum” Invokes the Notion of Strange Physics and States of Matter – January 30, 2023
• Cambridge, UK – January 30, 2023
• The Outward Urge Has NASA Looking at New Methods of Propulsion – January 29, 2023
• U.S. Military Plans to Deploy Laser Weapons by 2025 – January 28, 2023
• An Energy News Bulletin: About the Latest on Solar Cells, Energy Storage and Power Transmission – January 26, 2023
• What’s with Earth’s Inner Core? A New Research Paper Shows Evidence Its Spin Rate is Slowing – January 23, 2023
• If You Cook With Gas Are You Putting Your Family At Risk? – January 22, 2023
• Guest Post — AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts – January 21, 2023
• When Being Larger in Size in Earth’s Past May Have Led to Extinction – January 20, 2023
• Is the ChatGPT Fervour Premature? – January 19, 2023
• What is Graphullerene and Why Are Material Scientists Excited About its Properties? – January 17, 2023
• Understanding the Role of Critical Minerals in the Renewable Energy Transition – January 14, 2023
• Can an Artificial Intelligence Write Better Than a Human? – January 13, 2023
• Ep. 120: Quantum computing explained – January 11, 2023
• Harvesting Hydrogen from the Ocean – January 9, 2023
• SpaceX Setting a Pace to Achieve Its Founder’s Goal of Making Launches a Daily or Even Hourly Event – January 8, 2023
• COVID-19 Defence May Soon Have a New Weapon In Our Collective Arsenal – January 8, 2023
• The Concept of Unlimited Solar Energy From Space is One Step Closer to Reality – January 7, 2023
• There is No Nuclear Option in War – January 5, 2023
• What is the War in Ukraine Teaching Us About Our Reliance on Power Grids? – January 2, 2023
• Continuing Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs in 2022 — Part 3 – January 1, 2023
• Continuing Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs in 2022 — Part 2 – December 31, 2022
• A Comparison of Breakthroughs in 1922 Versus 2022 — Part 1 – December 30, 2022
• Massive Investments in Energy Storage Could Be the Beginning of the End for Fossil Fuel Dependency – December 30, 2022
• Gaming And Betting Have Gone Mainstream — Is This Our Future? – December 29, 2022
• More Energy Output Than Input Marks a Leap Forward for Fusion Energy Research – December 27, 2022
• Are We About To Be Assailed By Private Companies and Governments Implementing Geoengineering Experiments? – December 26, 2022
• What Will A 2051 COP Meeting Talk About? – December 25, 2022
• Visible Activity Tracking App Being Tested for People with Long COVID and Other Chronic Illnesses – December 22, 2022
• Celebrating Energy Central’s Top Voices in the Community for 2022 — Energy & Sustainability Network – December 22, 2022
• LIDAR is Rapidly Evolving to Make Autonomous Vehicles a Near Future Reality – December 5, 2022
• Worldwide Connectivity for Almost Every Person on the Planet is Getting Close – December 4, 2022
• NASA’s Artemis 1 Delivers a New Pale Blue Dot Image – November 30, 2022
• Population Growth, Urban Intensification, Mice and Rat Studies, Human Mental Health and the Climate – November 29, 2022
• Floating Solar Farms Join Other Novel Over-Water Ways to Get to Net Zero – November 22, 2022
• A New “Truth to Youth” Program Makes Me Wonder if We Need a “Truth to People” Equivalent – November 21, 2022
• Astronomers Discover That Planets And Stars Form Concurrently In Solar Systems – November 19, 2022
• Four Numbers That Should Serve as Wakeup Calls for All of Us – November 17, 2022
• Why Parents Are Not Getting Children Vaccinated And What That Means for Both – November 12, 2022
• Two NASA Boeing Projects Expose the Failings of the Relationship – November 8, 2022
• Rethinking How The Information I Write About Gets To My Readers – November 7, 2022
• Some of Society’s Problems Come From Bad Government Policy — Take For Example Cocaine – November 6, 2022
• Water-Braiding Technology Invented For Next Generation Wireless Devices – November 4, 2022
• The Disruption of Permafrost And How Governments Are Responding — Part 2: Other Countries – November 3, 2022
• The Disruption of Permafrost And How Governments Are Responding — Part 1: Canada – November 2, 2022
• Will The Solar Panels We Use Today Stand The Test Of Time? – October 31, 2022
• EMIT Identifies 50 Super-Methane Emitters – October 27, 2022
• Innovative Wind Energy And An Old Tried And True Way To Keep Cool – October 26, 2022
• For COVID-19 Sufferers Who Have Lost Their Sense Of Smell There Is The Bionic Nose – October 25, 2022
• Vladimir Putin Justifies Use of Nuclear Weapons Citing the U.S. Precedent in World War Two – October 23, 2022
• Will People Be Able To Regrow Organs? – October 21, 2022
• Turning The Bouncy Castle Into Inflatable Concrete-Filled Homes – October 19, 2022
• BYU engineers design a molten-salt reactor that will never melt down and fits on a flatbed truck – October 19, 2022
• Microbrewery may be where your glass of milk will come from in the near future – October 19, 2022
• Plastic Plastic Everywhere — What Are We Doing to Solve a Human Created Environmental Challenge? – October 17, 2022
• Planetary Defense Test Run a Success States NASA – October 13, 2022
• How Many Times Will You Get COVID? – October 10, 2022
• Think Lab Grown Meet is a Big Deal, What About Lab-Made Milk? – October 9, 2022
• NASA May Have A Way To Recharge Electric Cars In Less Than Five Minutes – October 8, 2022
• A Micro Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor That Will Never Have A Meltdown Is In The Works – October 7, 2022
• The “Pore Space” Race Has Begun – October 5, 2022
• Science and Technology Moving Closer to Artificial Wombs and Artificial Procreation – October 4, 2022
• IDTechEx reviews Tesla’s Humanoid robot called Optimus – October 4, 2022
• How Microgrids are an Ideal Energy Solution for Rural and Remote Communities – October 3, 2022
• What The 21st Century Grid Needs — 5 Actions the Power Industry Should Consider – October 2, 2022
• Businesses Going Green Can Co-opt and Reward Employees for Doing the Same – September 29, 2022
• NASA Throws a DART at an Asteroid to Test How to Stop a Civilization-Killing Rock from Hitting Earth in the Future – September 28, 2022
• Intervening to stop bone loss – September 25, 2022
• The Battery Wars Are Heating Up in a Good Way – September 24, 2022
• Meet the Wind Catcher — A Novel and Revolutionary Wind Turbine Design – September 21, 2022
• Why Are More of Us Skeptical About “Facts” These Days? – September 20, 2022
• Arctic Greening is Happening Faster Than We Thought – September 19, 2022
• Geothermal Energy May Be Key to Lithium Battery Technology Sustainability – September 19, 2022
• A GPS for the Oceans of the World is in the Making – September 17, 2022
• The Search for Life Off Earth Points to Mars – September 17, 2022