In 2025 the world will be even more obsessed with energy: from where to get it, to how much and how to store the surplus. Two stories that caught my eye as the year ended include a new material that turns clothes into piezoelectric energy harvesters. and a high-performance self-charging supercapacitor with integrated solar that marks a milestone in energy production and storage.
How can AI help to ensure food security. An Israeli company, Fermata, has developed Croptimus, an AI tool that observes crops and identifies pest and disease incidents, then notifies the grower as to the problem and its precise location. After mitigation it continues to monitor the effectiveness of the intervention and ensure there is no recurrence.
LA is the perfect storm for wildfires. It is located in California's dry climate zone, an area that has a Mediterranean climate, dry hot summers, and mild wet winters. The recent climate cycle left the city without rain for 8 months. Chaparral-covered hillsides were ready to spark when the Santa Ana winds began to blow.
How can AI help to ensure food security. An Israeli company, Fermata, has developed Croptimus, an AI tool that observes crops and identifies pest and disease incidents, then notifies the grower as to the problem and its precise location. After mitigation it continues to monitor the effectiveness of the intervention and ensure there is no recurrence.
Dextromethorphan. commonly found in cough syrup, is seen as a potential treatment for lung fibrosis also known as pulmonary fibrosis. Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, recently published results of a study that shows the promise of using DXM to treat this chronic condition that can turn deadly.
Can an artificial intelligence application predict when and where a medical emergency is about to happen? In Israel, after the outbreak of the Gaza war, an emergency response system using AI replaced missing staff called up to the army. The software predicts where, when and what kind of emergency is likely to happen with 85% accuracy.
Heart attacks or myocardial infarctions cause massive losses of cardiomyocytes, our heart cells. The loss of these cells happens in the millions and once they die cannot be regenerated. In an adult zebrafish, however, a damaged heart can be regenerated. Why? Because zebrafish have a protein that activates to stimulate heart cell growth when it is damaged.
Using DNA for data storage will yield DNA drives with error-free encoded data created using "molecular movable-type printing" produced by a novel epi-bit methodology created in a joint collaboration involving two Chinese universities, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and Arizona State University.
There is a growing Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) epidemic in Asia and increasing levels of the condition in Africa, the Middle East and Pacific island countries. The growth of T2D cases is linked to high rates of white rice consumption. An alternative rice variety being developed at the Max Planck Institute could reduce the incidence of diabetes by 25% if widely adopted.
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