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  • Zero Waste Grocery Store to Open in NYC

    A new kind of grocery store is opening this month in the Big Apple and its owner hopes that it will provide consumers access to local goods while simultaneously cutting down on waste

  • 3D Printing: The Future of Manufacturing

    3D manufacturing is clearly one of the most innovative technologies available for manufacturing. Although it has only been around for a few decades, it is quickly becoming a valuable tool for a range of industries and applications.

  • Algorithm Predicts More Efficient Wind Farm Layouts

    The new algorithm could help builders generate more revenue and create more renewable energy for customers.

  • Researchers Develop "Bumpy" Food Label to Prevent Food Waste

    Predicting when food might spoil is a veritable guessing game based on seemingly arbitrary dates that often see food discarded before its time. Now, researchers in the U.K. may have devised a solution to the issue of monitoring food freshness with the creation of a new label for milk containers that will decompose in sync with the liquid contents going sour.

  • Flushable Wipes Aren't Passing Disintegration Tests in the U.K.

    So-called flushable wipes are failing the U.K. water industry’s disintegration tests, according to recent reports.

  • Johnson Controls to Sell Its Battery Unit for $13.2 Billion

    The business produces batteries for global automakers and aftermarket distributors and retailers for vehicles, including hybrid and electrical models.

  • Six Things You Need to Know About Group Term Life Insurance (and How to Get it Fast)

    The most flexible type of insurance to protect the goals and dreams of your family, should your untimely death occur, is group term life insurance.

  • Phillips 66 Announces Pipelines and a Biodiesel Refinery

    The biodiesel plant would be built in Washington State.

  • Some U.K. Companies to Consider Microchipping Employees

    Swedish company Biohax announced that it will be working with several well-known firms in the U.K. to microchip their employees.

  • Intelligent Oil and Gas Blending, Logistics and Trading Solutions

    Validere’s artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) platforms provide enhanced visibility into daily operations. Midstream and exploration and production companies are presented with innovative tools that allow them to identify value-added services that increase profitability.

  • A New, More Comfortable Flexible Silicon Nanoneedle Patch

    Researchers from Purdue University have created a new flexible, thin and translucent base for silicon nanoneedle patches.

  • Study: A Real-Life Study on Social Media’s Impact on Mental Well-being

    A new study from the University of Pennsylvania looks at how people use Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram and their real-life impact on mental health.

  • Maritime Accidents Are the Focus of a New NTSB Report

    Maritime accident investigation reports for collisions, explosions, capsizings and allisions, and the lessons learned from each, are detailed in the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB's) Safer Seas Digest 2017.

  • Was an Amazon Echo Witness to a Murder?

    A United States judge is asking Amazon to turn over audio recordings captured by an Amazon Echo located in a Farmington, New Hampshire, home where two women died.

  • Report Warns of Emissions Rise if Nuclear Power Plants Close

    The Union of Concerned Scientists said that if natural gas or coal replace the threatened nuclear units, emissions will rise.

  • Researchers: 5 Minute Scan May Predict Cognitive Decline

    An international team of researchers, led by University College London (UCL), determined that a five-minute scan might detect a person's risk of dementia, well before symptoms of the disease emerge.

  • Plastic Microfibers Found in the Stool Samples of Wild Animals

    Following news that microplastics have been found in human stool samples comes word that for the first time plastic microfibers, which are microscopic hairs of plastic, have also been discovered in the stool samples of wild animals — namely, South American fur seals.

  • Enhanced-Precision Satellite Navigation: Find Your Location to Within One Centimeter Anywhere in the World

    Enhanced precision techniques greatly improve GPS integrity and accuracy by correcting for errors inherent in the system like those resulting from satellite orbit uncertainty, imperfect clocks, atmospheric disruption and electronic noise.

  • Introducing Robot De Niro, a Robotic Caregiving Assistant

    Researchers at Imperial College London introduced their take on the future of healthcare robots with Robot De Niro, a robotics research platform that supports caregivers and interacts with patients.

  • California OKs Big Move to Energy Storage

    The utility's search prompted more than two dozen energy storage proposals with 100 variations.

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