Total Lunar Eclipse, Brisbane, Australia, May 26, 2021. Photo: Jachin Dahlitz
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Environment
This department covers the environmental impacts of technology, both helpful and unhelpful, as well as the use of technology to explore and understand the environment and how we are manipulating the physical world through new scientific discoveries.Power generation, recycling, geoengineering, and new discoveries about the environment are all covered here.
Are We In For A Cold Snap? The Modern Grand Solar Minimum
According to a paper by Valentina Zharkova, an acurate method of tracking solar activity suggests we are entering a period of lowered activity as the sun enters the "Grand Solar Minimum", which is expected to span from 2020 to 2053. The effects of this current Grand...
Using cutting-edge technologies to explore the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef
Using cutting-edge technologies to explore the remote canyons, platform reefs and seamounts of the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef Marine Parks Elizabeth Neil While global warming remains an urgent issue for the environment, a team of marine biologists are working...
Researchers create a contagion model to predict flooding in urban areas
Inspired by the same modeling and mathematical laws used to predict the spread of pandemics, researchers at Texas A&M University have created a model to accurately forecast the spread and recession process of floodwaters in urban road networks. With this new...
Robotic research to help our agricultural industry grow!
A new crop monitoring and automation robot is currently being developed that will help farmers effectively monitor their crops, reduce loss and improve the quality of produce. This new concept is building on the successful Harvey, an agricultural robot prototype that...
New Solar Technology Set To Revolutionize The Industry
Queensland based company CQSola is on the cusp of commercializing a revolutionary technology that will increase the productivity of solar farms, drastically reduce waste, increase safety and monitoring, and save untold amounts of money. The solar power controller, a...
Deep Dive Interview with CQSola
Queensland based company CQSola is on the cusp of commercializing a revolutionary technology that will increase the productivity of solar farms, drastically reduce waste, increase safety and monitoring, and save untold amounts of money. The solar power controller, a...
CropHopper Crop Health Mapping
ith limited time frames and resources, farming isn’t exactly a walk in the park, especially given today's environmental and economic challenges. Over the decades many technological innovations have made the...
Insect wings that kill bacteria on contact
ome insect wings such as cicada and dragonfly possess nanopillar structures that kill bacteria upon contact. However, to date, the precise mechanisms that cause bacterial death have been unknown. Using a...
GMO moths are being released to destroy their population
The solution to this costly pest problem is to - according to findings published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - genetically modify a number of these diamondback moths and realease them into the wild. These genentically modified moths are then able...
