(Natural News) Toyota will sell a hydrogen fuel cell module to manufacturers starting later this year as an alternative to electrified powertrains. The Japanese automaker has been at the forefront of hydrogen fuel technology since developing a hydrogen-powered electric vehicle, the Toyota Mirai. The new module will be compatible with stationary generators and various types of […]

(Natural News) Japanese automaker Toyota recently introduced a fuel cell system module that can be easily integrated into a wide range of products, including electric ships. Unveiled at the end of last month, the hydrogen fuel cell system will be available in four models when it hits showrooms sometime in the next few months. Components of Toyota’s fuel cell system […]

(Natural News) Researchers with the Navy are testing a space-based solar panel in a bid to install a solar farm in orbit around Earth. Known as the Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM), the solar panel is no bigger than a pizza box but can be scaled up to generate large amounts of energy. The Navy launched PRAM to space in […]

(Natural News) The property that makes plastic such a pesky pollutant just might be the key that will help solve the problem of its negative impact on the environment. This is according to a research team from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, who had recently developed a more sustainable way of dealing with plastic […]

(Natural News) An international team of researchers will be 3D printing live human pancreas models as part of a research initiative called the “European ENLIGHT Project.” The researchers plan to use the “bioprinted” models to improve the testing of diabetes medications and eventually treatments for other diseases like cancer. The European Union‘s Horizon 2020 Innovation Fund awarded […]

(Natural News) The Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), a construction firm that focuses on space colonization, plans to build the first “space hotel” in 2025. In a virtual press junket on Jan. 29, OAC described the space hotel as a large, wheel-shaped structure that spins to generate artificial gravity while orbiting Earth. The structure called the “Voyager Station” would […]

(Natural News) Clean water is a scarce resource in dry, off-grid environments. In these areas, conventional water sources such as snowfall, rainfall, river runoff and groundwater are rare if not completely absent. But innovative water sourcing methods could help address that scarcity. In an article for the Conversation, environmental scientists Manzoor Qadir and Vladimir Smakhtin, both from United […]

(Natural News) Researchers with the Department of Defense successfully harvested solar energy from space using a solar panel that could one day beam energy to any place on Earth. Called the Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM), the prototype solar panel is currently the size of a pizza box but could eventually be scaled up in order to send […]

(Natural News) Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) are some of the most promising batteries available today. They are cheaper, lighter and capable of storing much more energy than conventional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which currently power most kinds of electronic devices. But LSBs can only be recharged a few times before degrading. Now, South Korean researchers might have just found the […]

(Natural News) Scientists are developing an advanced artificial intelligence system that uses an advanced neural network and radio signals to detect a person’s emotions from a short distance. This is coming from a study conducted by scientists from the Queen Mary University of London and was published in the journal PLOS ONE. The researchers used radio waves to pick up subtle […]