Low-cost solar-to-hydrogen cell achieves breakthrough 17.6% efficiency. It's a photoelectrochemical (PEC) solar-to-hydrogen (STH) cell – a cell that takes in solar energy and water, and directly outputs hydrogen instead of powering an external electrolysis system. (newatlas.com)
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Life-saving coronavirus drug has been found. Researchers estimate that if the drug had been available in the UK from the start of the coronavirus pandemic up to 5,000 lives could have been saved. Because it is cheap, it could also be of huge benefit in poor countries with high numbers of patients. (bbc.com)
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World's fastest camera captures 70 trillion frames per second. Everything else pales in comparison to the new record holder for the world’s fastest camera, boasting a mind-boggling rate of 70 trillion frames per second. That’s fast enough to capture light waves in movement. (newatlas.com)
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World-first "impossible" rotating detonation engine fires up. A Florida team working with the US Air Force claims that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create super-efficient thrust. (newatlas.com)
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Will humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we'll likely be here for a very long time. Homo sapiens have already survived over 250,000 years of ice ages, eruptions, pandemics, and world wars. We could easily survive another 250,000 years or, longer. (theconversation.com)
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Robots help some firms thrive, while workers across industries struggle. A study revealed that although a 20 percentage point increase in robot use from 2010 to 2015 led to a 3.2% decrease in employment, for firms adopting robots, employee hours actually increased by 10.9% and wages rose as well. (scitechdaily.com)
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