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Floating city with 10,000 inhabitants, resistant to hurricanes and tsunamis
The United Nations presents a floating city design that helps solve housing shortages and withstand all kinds of natural disasters.
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Food safety
Research: Detecting harmful industrial plastic chemicals in American fast food
More than 80% of popular fast food in the United States contains harmful chemicals such as phthalates and other industrial plastic ingredients.
1001 mystery
Pentagon launches 'UFO hunting' task force
TipsMake - Their mission is to detect and identify strange objects in the sky, thereby assessing and mitigating any threats related to the safety of flights, as well as…
Environment
How bad was the flooding in the Pacific Northwest?
Floods and landslides have devastated the West Coast of Canada and the United States just months after a record heatwave, raising alarms about the worsening situation of…
Scientific application
Water generator from the air for upland people
Witnessing the lack of domestic water when going on a field trip in the highlands, two 4th-year students of Hanoi University of Technology came up with the idea of c…
Environment
The opportunity for the Earth to warm up to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius is disappearing
Many leaders said they had hoped the G20 meeting in Rome would yield more positive results.
Discover science
Pros and cons of wind energy
Like solar, wind energy is the fastest growing energy source in the United States, aiming to produce 20% of the electricity as wind power by 2030.
Environment
Breakthrough ideas for making cement from waste salt
Two architects in Dubai (United Arab Emirates - UAE) are looking to break the traditional building rules when they want to use cement made from salt to build houses.
Funny corner
Prisoners commit murder to solve the ancient problem, find the meaning of life
A prisoner who committed murder offenses in the United States taught himself basic advanced mathematics, so he solved a complex arithmetic problem. Not only that, he als…
New technology
Graphene and 2D materials can turn 'Moore's law' into the past
A group of researchers in Manchester (UK), Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States recently published a new study on a field of computer equipm…
New technology
China is about to have a more accurate GPS navigation system than the United States
The last satellite to complete China's BeiDou navigation system will be launched into orbit later this month.
Conquer Mars
The UAE is about to launch a spacecraft to Mars
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch a spacecraft flying around Mars next month to learn about the disappearance of the planet's atmosphere.
Space science
A series of monstrous planets with clouds ... aluminum and titanium rain
A team of scientists from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States has found unusual forms of hot Jupiters outside the Solar System - giant, deadly planets, clou…
History
World Oceans Day (June 8): Innovate for a sustainable ocean
The United Nations General Assembly has chosen June 8 to be World Oceans Day every year. The goal of this day's celebration is to raise awareness about the particularly…
Environment
Rains pour 1,000 tons of plastic into the United States each year
Every year, the equivalent of 300 million micro-bottles of rainfall falls to national parks and wilderness areas in the western United States.