This rechargeable lighter uses no fuel, has no flame, and looks like a taser
The Volt lighter uses an electric current to burn things, so it's rechargeable and doesn't use gas.It is made from recycled products and has gained more than 200% of its funding goal on Indiegogo and...
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These gadgets are perfect examples of when technology successfully meets consumer needs. They are not only cool-looking products but also very practical ones that you can use everyday. The innovating...
View ArticleThis Cold War-era technology could safely power the world for millions of years
A technology called the molten-salt reactor first went online in 1965 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but was scrapped in the 1970s because it wasn't good for making nuclear weapons. If entrepreneurs...
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View ArticleA light-reflective spray protects nighttime riders better than fluorescent...
A company has designed a light-reflective spray that can be used to keep cyclists safer while riding at night. The Albedo100 spray can make your clothing, bike, and helmet high-vis in seconds. It lasts...
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Thousands of dead fish keep washing up on a beach in Cornwall — and no one...
Hundreds of thousands of mackerel and pilchard have covered a beach in Cornwall "as far as the eye can see", witnesses have said.The fish were washed up on Saturday (17 December) night on the beach at...
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The US just finalized a major new policy to protect drinking water — but...
The Interior Department announced on Monday that it had finalized a rule designed to protect water sources in the US from hazardous chemicals released by coal mining.The Stream Protection Rule, as it...
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These 15 trends will transform the natural world in 2017
What should we be thinking about when we think about the future of biodiversity, conservation and the environment? An international team of experts in horizon scanning, science communication and...
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Climate change is wreaking havoc on indigenous people in Alaska
The extreme warmth of 2016 has changed so much for the people of the Arctic that even their language is becoming unmoored from the conditions in which they now live.The Yupik, an indigenous people of...
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A just discovered, 90-million-year-old bird could help predict the future of...
A new type of large, prehistoric bird has just been unearthed in the Canadian arctic.A team of geologists from the University of Rochester discovered the new species, which is approximately 90 million...
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A freak blast of warm air pushed temperatures around the North Pole close to...
OSLO (Reuters) - Temperatures around the North Pole surged close to melting point on Thursday as a freak blast of warm air blanketed an Arctic region usually deep frozen in mid-winter darkness,...
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The world's first solar panel road has opened in France
France has opened what it claims to be the world’s first solar panel road, in a Normandy village.A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of...
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Here are the qualifications of all 13 people who served as Secretary of...
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Texas Governor Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy. The position entails guiding research and policy around energy production in the US,...
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A supervolcano that caused one of the biggest eruptions ever has started to...
A 12-km wide cauldron that forms a vast supervolcano on the coast of Italy is showing signs of reawakening after almost 500 years of inactivity.Not only is this site rumoured to be responsible for the...
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China's smog is so bad right now, masks and filters are starting to sell out
BEIJING (Reuters) - Near-record pollution levels in parts of China this week proved a two-edged sword for the country's e-commerce titans: orders poured in for anti-smog products, but transport...
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Snowfall was recorded in the Sahara Desert for the first time in 37 years —...
It snowed on December 19 in the Sahara Desert, and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite was there (or rather, hundreds of miles overhead) to see it.The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus...
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Scientists around the world are worried about a Trump team proposal to ax...
Just before Thanksgiving this year, a coalition of meteorologists, climatologists, biologists, ecologists, and other researchers took up a new ritual of thankfulness: tweeting the small and large ways...
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There are heaps of WWII junk rusting in Greenland — and the photos are eerily...
Hey America, you forgot a huge pile of junk in the wilderness.Abandoned by the US Air Force in 1947, Bluie East Two is one of several World War II and Cold War installations left to crumble in...
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Obama names new national monuments in Utah and Nevada despite possible...
President Barack Obama designated two national monuments Wednesday at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West, marking the administration's...
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A 23-year-old 'Star Trek' episode nails the most troubling thing about...
Last night, I took a break from the news to watch an episode of "Star Trek," and it turned out to be the most relevant commentary on science and President-elect Donald Trump I've seen so far.In...
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