A roundup of this week's top stories:
-
1
SoftBank Robotics Group invests in futuristic AI disinfecting company
Japan's SoftBank Robotics Group has announced it is buying a 5% stake in Hong Kong-based Avalon SteriTech. It is the first Hong Kong investment made by the innovative Japanese company...
-
2
Norden looks to power ships with cooking oil
Did you know that the spare cooking oil in your cupboard could be used to power an entire vessel? Danish shipping firm Norden is looking to turn this everyday item into a pioneer for net-zero freight...
-
3
"A jump through time": New research could rewind age of skins cells by 30 years
Ageing and its associated consequences are all something we have to worry about, but new research from the Babraham Institute may have discovered a way to reverse the biological clock on skin cells...
-
4
Editorial: "Reasons to be cheerful" - Some glimmers of light in uncertain times
As humanity continues its trend of lurching from one crisis to the next, ticking off another of the Four Horsemen boxes as we go, the latest print edition of IE focuses of those glimmers of light that, despite it all, are making great strides to...
-
5
World's navies need green transition, says white paper
Decarbonisation of the world's naval forces presents a unique set of challenges due to their defensive purpose. The question of how to minimise a navy's environmental impact without increasing its operational vulnerability was the focus of a new...
-
6
Ferrovial wins €438m Grand Paris Express contract
Spanish multinational company Ferrovial, through a consortium with France-based Spie batigonolles Valerian, has been awarded a €438 million contract to build a section of the Paris Metro...
-
7
Cellular engineered fish is coming to a plate near you soon
If you ordered a fish at a restaurant, would you always expect it to be fresh, caught from the sea? What if it had been grown directly from cells?..
