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Sep 13, 2024

Australia Green Lights World’s ‘Largest’ Solar Hub

Posted by in categories: energy, food, sustainability

Australia on Wednesday approved plans for a massive solar and battery farm that would export energy to Singapore, a project it calls the “largest solar precinct in the world”

Authorities announced environmental approvals for SunCable’s US$24 billion project in Australia’s remote north that is slated to power 3million homes.

The project, which will include an array of panels, batteries and, eventually, a cable linking Australia with Singapore, is backed by tech billionaire and green activist Mike Cannon-Brookes.

Sep 13, 2024

Services for modeling the effects of nuclear weapons on agricultural systems

Posted by in categories: computing, food, government, military, policy

This is a U.S. General Services Administration Federal Government computer system that is “FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.” This system is subject to monitoring. Individuals found performing unauthorized activities are subject to disciplinary action including criminal prosecution.

This system contains Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). All individuals viewing, reproducing or disposing of this information are required to protect it in accordance with 32 CFR Part 2002 and GSA Order CIO 2103.2 CUI Policy.

Sep 9, 2024

East Africa’s FIRST Robot Cafe Just Opened in Nairobi

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

I have been off Facebook, will leave again because I always get harassed by Facebook. I haven’t used it ib months, and I already have broken ubknown rules🙄. I did share info to Lifeboat via e-mail. I think I will join X like everyone else…but this was a cool video.


No, this is not Japan but Kenya! East Africa just got its first ever Robot restaurant and it is located in Nairobi. This really fun cafe style eatery is ideal for families with kids as the young ones will simply love the robot waiters.

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Sep 8, 2024

Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to make see-through mice

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Food dye transformed the skin of mice into a living window revealing blood vessels, muscle fibers and gut contractions, according to a new study.

Sep 6, 2024

Does restricting calories slow down ageing? We simply don’t know

Posted by in categories: food, genetics, life extension

A test based on an “epigenetic clock” is the latest basis for claims that calorie restriction slows down ageing – but the jury is still out on whether the dieting strategy really works.

Sep 6, 2024

A window into the body: New technique makes skin invisible

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Researchers have developed a new way to see organs within a body by rendering overlying tissues transparent to visible light. The counterintuitive process—a topical application of food-safe dye—was reversible in tests with animal subjects, and may ultimately apply to a wide range of medical diagnostics, from locating injuries to monitoring digestive disorders to identifying cancers.

Sep 5, 2024

Common yellow food dye can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, study finds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

In H.G. Wells’ 1,897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his body transparent by controlling how they bend light.

More than 100 years later, scientists have discovered a real-life version of the substance: A commonly used food coloring can make the skin of a mouse temporarily transparent, allowing scientists to see its organs function, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science.

The breakthrough could revolutionize biomedical research and, should it be successfully tested in humans, have wide-ranging applications in medicine and health care, such as making veins more visible to draw blood.

Sep 5, 2024

Robots Are Coming to the Kitchen. What Does This Mean for Everyday Life?

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Can automated restaurants still be community and cultural spaces, or will they become feeding stations for humans? These and other questions loom as new food tech reaches the market.

Sep 5, 2024

Scientists just made mice ‘see-through’ using food dye — and humans are next

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

A common food dye can turn the skin of living mice transparent, enabling researchers to peer inside the body without surgery.

This is the first time scientists have used the technique to visualize the tissues of living mice under the microscope. They used a food-safe dye, which can likely be found in snacks in your pantry, and several fundamental physics principles to render the mice see-through.

Sep 4, 2024

Seeing like a butterfly: Optical invention enhances camera capabilities

Posted by in categories: food, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

Butterflies can see more of the world than humans, including more colors and the field oscillation direction, or polarization, of light. This special ability enables them to navigate with precision, forage for food and communicate with one another. Other species, like the mantis shrimp, can sense an even wider spectrum of light, as well as the circular polarization, or spinning states, of light waves. They use this capability to signal a “love code,” which helps them find and be discovered by mates.

Inspired by these abilities in the animal kingdom, a team of researchers at the Penn State College of Engineering has developed an ultrathin optical element known as a metasurface, which can attach to a conventional camera and encode the spectral and polarization data of images captured in a snapshot or video through tiny, antenna-like nanostructures that tailor light properties. A machine learning framework, also developed by the team, then decodes this multi-dimensional visual information in real-time on a standard laptop.

The researchers have published their work in Science Advances.

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