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Creative Innovations: From Phone Orchestra to Biodegradable Covers
This video showcases innovative ideas revolving around mobile phones, from a unique mobile phone orchestra created by a university student in Lithuania to biodegradable phone cases embedded with sunflower seeds. It also highlights a...
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Evolution of Factories: Embracing Technology in Manufacturing
This video explores the evolution of manufacturing in the automotive industry, showcasing the impact of technology and robotics on modern factories. It highlights how manufacturers are adapting to changing trends by incorporating new...
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Revolutionizing Agriculture: Harnessing Plants' Natural Defenses to Protect Crops
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany are revolutionizing crop protection by harnessing plants' natural defenses to combat insect pests. Through innovative methods like using mechanical worms to simulate caterpillar attacks...
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Yunda: A Sustainable Energy Success Story
Yunda is a pioneering farming village in Germany that has successfully transitioned to bioenergy, eliminating the use of oil and fossil-based energy sources. Through innovative methods such as utilizing bio waste for heating and...
Wonderscape
Factors Influencing Fossilization: The Journey to Becoming a Fossil
Understand the complex process of fossilization and the factors that influence whether an organism becomes a fossil. Learn about the rarity of fossilization, with fewer than 10% of today's organisms likely to become fossils. Explore how...
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Meredith Belbin: The Belbin Team Roles Profile
Meredith Belbin set out to understand why management teams succeed or fail. And the tools he created to help them succeed is the set of nine Belbin Team Roles and the Team Role Profile.
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Exploring the World of Fossils: Uncovering Ancient Life Through Paleontology
Fossils are the preserved remains of plants or animals from long ago, such as dinosaurs, that have turned into stone over time. They can be found in various locations like mountains, underwater, and even underground. Fossil discoveries,...
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Understanding Weeds: The Impact on Agriculture and Natural Solutions
This video highlights the impact of weeds on agriculture, specifically focusing on the invasive Mikania weed in tea-growing areas of India. Weeds like Mikania can outcompete other plants for essential resources, causing significant...
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Developing Super Plants: Cleaning Contaminated Land with Genetic Manipulation
Scientists from Southampton University are working on developing super plants that can extract harmful heavy metals from polluted soil. By studying Arabidopsis, a plant with mapped DNA, they have discovered certain proteins that can...
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Creating Floating Islands to Protect Zooplankton and Control Algae in British Waterways
In an effort to protect zooplankton from being eaten by carp and control toxic blue-green algae, two man-made islands have been created in the Earlswood Lakes of Britain's West Midlands. Scientists have carefully planted five different...
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Transforming Agriculture: Bio Gas Power Plants and Renewable Energy in Holsworthy
This video highlights the innovative use of renewable energy in the form of a bio-gas power station fueled by livestock waste. Farmers in the Holsworthy area of England are turning their animal waste into electricity, reducing pollution,...
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The Rolls Royce Phantom: A Blend of German Engineering and British Tradition
The video is a brief overview of the Rolls Royce Phantom, the first German Rolls Royce model. It highlights the car's lightweight aluminum body, AV12 engine, and luxurious interior design. The video also emphasizes the combination of...
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Preserving Lebanese Seeds: Adding Rare Iris to Britain's Millennium Seed Bank
In this video, we learn about the addition of a wide range of Lebanese seeds to Britain's Millennium Seed Bank. These seeds, carefully harvested by botanists, are sorted, sifted, and checked for quality before being frozen for...
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Infineon's New Non-Volatile Memory Technology: Enron Nitride Read Only Memory (NROM)
The Infineon chip manufacturing plant in Dresden, Germany produces a new non-volatile memory technology called Enron Nitride read-only memory. This technology, similar to flash memory, can be made on standard CMOS production lines,...
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Eurocopter's Success and Expansion in North America
Eurocopter is a leading helicopter manufacturer with a strong presence in North America. They provide commercial and homeland defense helicopters to various government agencies, including the US Coast Guard and law enforcement agencies....
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Revolutionizing Urban Waste Management: The Arrow Bio Solution
Arrow Bio is a patented waste processing center that transforms garbage into valuable resources such as fertilizer, recyclable materials, and methane gas for energy. With automated separation technology, it efficiently separates...
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Transforming Garbage into Oil: The Innovative Process of Changing World Technologies
Changing World Technologies is a Philadelphia-based company that has developed a groundbreaking process called thermal depolymerization (TDP) to convert various types of garbage, including computer parts, electrical odds and ends, and...
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Preserving the Future: The Wakehurst Millennium Seed Bank
The Wakehurst Millennium Seed Bank is a state-of-the-art facility in southern England that houses 300 million seeds collected from all over the world. With the current rate of extinction at 70 times greater than normal, the seed bank...
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Wellbeing A-Z -Organic
Is there really any difference between traditionally grown fruit and vegies, and Organic? What about the taste? We weigh up the pros and cons of paying extra for your weekly groceries.
Financial Times
Rise of food waste technology
FT Food Revolution - New technology and AI are helping tackle the mounting problem of food waste. Start-ups that allow supermarkets to shift their pricing based on the freshness of food, digital 'twins' that help producers to monitor...
Financial Times
Growing calls for crop diversity
FT Food Revolution - Mass agriculture has embraced uniform, monoculture crops that can produce greater yields, but can also be more susceptible to disease. Now researchers and some growers are warning that diversity must be encouraged,...
Financial Times
Seed banks can help guard against threats to food production
FT Food Revolution - An estimated 40 per cent of global plant species are at risk of extinction. As climate change and monocultures threaten global agricultural production, and with food insecurity on the rise, the FT’s Gideon Long...
Financial Times
Can the steel industry go green?
FT Climate Capital - The metal's role role in the climate crisis is now under scrutiny as companies across the world are racing to reduce their emissions. But the costs and challenges they are facing are significant.
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Grow.Eat.Repeat. A Love Letter to Black-Eyed Peas by Stacey and Paige Woodson
Grow. Eat. Repeat. A Love Letter to Black-Eyed Peas,Paige, an inquisitive ten-year-old, accompanies her mother into the garden for a day of bonding, learning, and growing food. Her mother shares an engaging story that leads Paige to...