5 Benefits Of This Eco-Friendly Lighting

5 Benefits Of This Eco-Friendly Lighting

5 Benefits Of This Eco-Friendly Lighting

Solar powered lights are the new black. Seriously. With the onset of more intensive load-shedding across South Africa, solar powered lights that operate electricity-free are a great way to go. This trendy home decor option is not just practical, low maintenance and environmentally-friendly, it also can provide some beautiful light to your home spaces. Here … Read more

MassRobotics Jumpstart Fellowship Program Year 5 

MassRobotics Jumpstart Fellowship Program Year 5 

MassRobotics kicked off sessions for the 5th year in Boston and the 2nd year of the expansion in Lowell in January 2025.   The program was developed to encourage and empower diverse high school girls to pursue a career in robotics and promote diversity in the robotics workforce.   This Jumpstart program has many components including … Read more

Past Insights Driving SDG-2 Progress

Past Insights Driving SDG-2 Progress

As the global population accelerates towards nearly 10 billion by mid-century, the imperative to transform food production systems has never been more urgent. Conventional agriculture, long regarded as the backbone of global food security, is increasingly strained by climate change, water scarcity, and land degradation. These challenges compel scientists, policymakers, and innovators to investigate alternative … Read more

No Kings

No Kings

Don’t forget: we live in a country in which about half of our people approve of this, i.e., that the president can threaten to remove the citizenship of anyone he doesn’t like.

Robot Talk Episode 120 – Evolving robots to explore other planets, with Emma Hart

Robot Talk Episode 120 – Evolving robots to explore other planets, with Emma Hart

Claire chatted to Emma Hart from Edinburgh Napier University about algorithms that ‘evolve’ better robot designs and control systems. Emma Hart is a computer scientist working in the field of evolutionary computation. Her work takes inspiration from the natural world, in particular biological evolution, and uses this to develop algorithms that ‘evolve’  both the design … Read more

We’re powering Energy House 2.0

We’re powering Energy House 2.0

We’re working together with the University of Salford to create the ‘energy house’ of the future. The lab will contain four fully-constructed Victorian houses, hooked up with cutting edge smart tech, from solar panels to smart car chargers, and will be capable of simulating a staggering array of weather conditions, from scorching 40 degree sun … Read more