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Solar ships cruise around the world
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Solar ships cruise around the world

The world's largest solar ship, MS Turanor Planet Solar, left Monaco port at 14:00 on September 27 to make the journey around the world.

December 16, 2018
Use natural waterfalls to produce ice
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Use natural waterfalls to produce ice

Associate Professor-Ph.D Vo Chi Chinh - lecturer of Polytechnic University (Da Nang University), had the idea of ​​taking advantage of natural flow to produce ice.

December 16, 2018
How to improve rice yield on degraded land
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How to improve rice yield on degraded land

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Tam Duong district (Vinh Phuc), has researched and applied the technical advances, helping to improve the productivity…

December 16, 2018
He created sheep shed himself
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He created sheep shed himself

British agriculture has just received the special Exlana sheep - the hair grows long in the winter and then sheds itself in the spring.

December 16, 2018
Collect water from the air
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Collect water from the air

Pieter Hoff created the Groasis Waterboxx box to collect water from the air to supply plants.

December 16, 2018
Pain relief with scorpion venom
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Pain relief with scorpion venom

Extracting, preserving the quality of black scorpion venom successfully, scientists of the Institute of Applied Materials Science have just developed an analgesic, anti-…

December 16, 2018
Telephone booths for cars
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Telephone booths for cars

If you own an electric vehicle in Austria, in the future you can drop into any public phone booth on the street to recharge.

December 16, 2018
New inventions help reduce night vision goggles
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New inventions help reduce night vision goggles

Applying technology in the production of ultra-thin televisions, scientists at the University of Florida, USA, recently created a thin film that allows the conversion of…

December 16, 2018
Preserving potatoes with dry sand
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Preserving potatoes with dry sand

The method of preserving potatoes with dry sand is very effective. After 5-month storage, tubers are not sprouted, not shrunken due to dehydration, loss rate is less tha…

December 16, 2018