Harvard Business Review June 18, 2018 The low cost and do-it-yourself accessibility of genomic technologies makes it possible for weapons to be deployed by almost any aggressor. If a highly contagious agent were released in a major city, it could spread far and wide and kill thousands before it is even clear what is happening and we would likely have a window of only several weeks to prevent it from causing a global catastrophe. Responding effectively to such threats will require a paradigm shift towards approaches that are faster and more agile and decentralized approaches underpinned by new technologies are […]
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In desert trials, next-generation water harvester delivers fresh water from air (w/video)
Eurekalert June 8, 2018 In 2017, researchers at UC Berkeley successfully field tested their newest prototype water harvester in the Arizona desert. It worked as designed, sucking water out of the air without any power other than sunlight. They demonstrated that the harvester should be easy to scale up by simply adding more of the water absorber, a highly porous MOF. A team of researchers in the US (UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) has created a new MOF based on aluminum, called MOF-303, that is at least 150 times cheaper and captures twice as much water in lab tests. This […]