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26 03, 2020

5 innovative solutions to combat Coronavirus developed by creative companies

By |2020-03-26T21:48:30+01:00March 26th, 2020|Curiosity|0 Comments

Necessity is the mother of invention. This famous saying is especially true right now, as the world is struggling to contain the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. However, some companies and creative individuals have already come up with innovative solutions to the problem. While scientists are still learning more about the virus and are trying [...]

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21 02, 2020

3D printing is the future of home construction

By |2020-02-21T09:59:15+01:00February 21st, 2020|Curiosity|0 Comments

If you have been following recent innovations, you will definitely have heard about the benefits of 3D printing in the design and prototyping of new products. But did you know that we are beginning to 3D print entire buildings now? These new large-scale printers deposit layers of concrete, which harden to form the walls of [...]

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31 10, 2019

This blew my mind: Mercury is the closest planet to Jupiter

By |2019-10-31T21:59:26+01:00October 31st, 2019|Curiosity|0 Comments

I love learning facts that challenge long-held assumptions and teach me to see things in a new way. Today, I learned something which seems completely counterintuitive, which is which planets in our solar system are actually the shortest distance from another. For example, we all learned the sequence of planets, showing how far away they [...]

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20 06, 2019

Corona releases Fit Packs: Beer cans that link together

By |2019-06-20T17:31:13+02:00June 20th, 2019|Curiosity|2 Comments

The Mexican Beer manufacturer Corona has found an innovative new solution to the problem of plastic packaging which holds packs of beer together. They have redesigned their beer cans so that the top and bottom have a semi-screw mechanism, allowing cans to be "locked together" and carried like a tube. Allegedly the system is strong [...]

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27 05, 2019

Fascinating new innovation: 3D colour X-rays

By |2019-05-27T19:36:10+02:00May 27th, 2019|Curiosity|0 Comments

If you think that all X-ray images can do is show you a picture of your skeleton, think again. Scientists from Mars Bioimaging at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand have developed new medical imaging technology which allows them to take pictures of the internal tissues of living beings (including humans), and show the different [...]

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25 03, 2019

Why machines that bend (compliant mechanisms) may be the future

By |2019-03-25T23:13:00+01:00March 25th, 2019|Curiosity|0 Comments

In the video above, Dr Derek Mueller from Veritasium takes us into the world of compliant mechanisms. What are compliant mechanisms? In mechanical engineering, compliant mechanisms are flexible mechanisms that transfer an input force and displacement at one port to an output force and displacement at another port through elastic body deformation. These may be monolithic (single-piece) or jointless [...]

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31 12, 2018

New Year’s Resolution from Idea to Value: More Videos in 2019

By |2018-12-31T05:42:30+01:00December 31st, 2018|Curiosity|0 Comments

I want to wish you a very happy new year, and hope you enjoy tonight's 2019 New Year's Eve as much as I plan on it. Hopefully, 2018 has been successful for you, with lots of creative ideas, and many of those turned into real innovations. I have been thinking back on the past year, [...]

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17 12, 2018

How the Netherlands has innovated agriculture to become the world’s #2 exporter of food

By |2018-12-17T03:44:55+01:00December 17th, 2018|Curiosity|8 Comments

The Netherlands (some will call them Holland) is by many accounts quite a small country. With a land mass of only 41,543 km2, it is approximately the size of Maryland. And the total Dutch population of just over 17 million people is smaller than some of the world's current largest cities. And yet, this country is the [...]

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10 12, 2018

This news is incredibly boring but innovative: There is a new definition of a kilogram

By |2018-12-10T06:27:16+01:00December 10th, 2018|Curiosity|0 Comments

Instead of being tied to a physical object in France, the international standard for the kilogram is now based on one of the fundamental constants of nature. And to achieve this, scientists have agreed to change the very definition of one of the constants of physics. You might be asking why I am talking about [...]

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