🚀 Ideas shaping tomorrow 🚀
Future-focused news looking at global innovation, science and technology from a European perspective.
By @euronews 🌍
Oct 19, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Paris is calling for a ban on e-scooters.🛴
But these operators – Dott, TIER and Lime – are fighting back and joining forces to make the case that the 15,000 e-scooters they manage are not to blame for all the evils in the city. 👇euronews.com/next/2022/10/1…
Love them or loathe them, electric scooters have become part of the landscape across many big European cities.
Emma’s operation was the world’s first intestinal transplant from an asystole donor. euronews.com/next/2022/10/1…
13-month-old Emma had intestinal failure, which prevented her intestine from absorbing nutrients from food.
She had received several operations before the transplant took place.
Just before hibernation season, brown bears eat as much as 20,000 daily calories.🐻
But why can bears eat so much then rest for months without facing any of the potential health consequences humans would, like diabetes?
Scientists are looking into it 👇 euronews.com/next/2022/10/1…
🗣"Many of us are absolutely fascinated by how bears are able to gain so much weight during the year, and then emerge from hibernation active and with no negative consequences," said Professor Joanna L. Kelley, one of the study's researchers.
Sep 15, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The transition known as "the Merge" has been finalised, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin confirmed.
The platform's switch to a less energy intense PoS technology could cut carbon emissions by more than 99.9%.#EthereumMerge euronews.com/next/2022/09/1…
🗣"And we finalized!... Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem," Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said in a tweet.
Sep 14, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The majority of staff do not want to go back to the office, at least not full-time.
This is creating tense discussions with some bosses. euronews.com/next/2022/09/1…
With summer over, many employers are trying to get their staff to return to the office to pre-pandemic levels or at least part-time.
For generations, male contraception has been limited to two options: wearing condoms or having a vasectomy.
That could be about to change, however.
Here’s a look at some of the most promising methods in the pipeline. 👇 euronews.com/next/2022/09/1…
Scientists have been working on developing new male contraceptives for decades, and the recent Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion in the United States is fuelling new interest in the topic.
Jul 14, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
In a galaxy far, far away... there is the sound of a heartbeat 💗 .
This sound is coming from a strange radio signal that emits periodically in the depths of space, astronomers have discovered. 🌌 euronews.com/next/2022/07/1…
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States were caught by surprise due to the intensity of the heartbeat-like radio bursts, as well as their regularity.📻
Jul 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ring, ring 📞 Planetary nebula calling 🌌
The latest images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show NGC 3132, known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula.
Here's a fact to ruin your day: Around 90% of humans have these tiny mites living on their skin.
At night, they leave their hiding place to mate on our faces while we sleep.😑
But it's not all bad — new research suggests they may be beneficial to us.👇 euronews.com/next/2022/06/2…
The mites, called Demodex folliculorum, feed on sebum, a substance that coats the skin which is naturally released by cells inside our pores.🙃
Not all relatively rich nations are happy like the Nordics, but their low levels of income inequality should definitely be highlighted in terms of creating greater life satisfaction.
Apr 20, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
How do you enjoy salty food without actually eating salty food?
Users hook the chopsticks up to a wrist-mounted computer module that generates a weak electric current. ⚡️
The wavelength of the current attracts the sodium ions in food and draws them to the chopsticks, making food seem saltier than it is.🍜
Feb 15, 2022 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
🇧🇪 The Belgian government has announced a series of labour reforms that look set to transform the way people work.
The major shift is introducing four-day weeks - but that's not all 👇
Workers will have the right to request a four-day week for a period of six months.
After this, they can choose whether to continue the arrangement or return to a five-day week with no negative consequences.
Imagine a virtual workplace, where the focus is on what you're passionate about instead of purely productivity....
This is what the metaverse could potentially offer💻💫
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With the price for parcels of land going through the roof in Decentraland, it seems like an alternative, virtual vision for the future has really started to take shape in the last year.🔮
Restrictions on older and non-electric cars could soon impact how we use them 🚗
But what if there was a way to make classic cars environmentally sound? 👇
According to the UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, there are 40 million vehicles on UK roads 🛻
About 46% of these need to be electric by 2030 to meet the UK’s climate goals ♻️
Bitcoin is set to become legal tender in El Salvador and Cuba. 🪙
Yet many countries are moving the other way, making the controversial online coin and other cryptocurrencies illegal. 👇
Algeria 🇩🇿
Algeria currently prohibits the use of cryptocurrency following the passing of a financial law in 2018 that made it illegal to buy, sell, use or hold virtual currencies. 🪙
Anywhere on a European high speed rail 🎵
Picture this: the year is 2045. You’re standing on a platform in Berlin awaiting a sleek pod to whisk you off to Paris within the hour, ready for your morning meeting. 🚄
In the afternoon you’ll pop on another pod for a leisurely trip to Barcelona. 🌆
This unclassifiable organism will live out millions of people’s dreams by flying into orbit this week. 🚀
So what is the purpose of the universe's newest astronaut? 👇
All sorts of objects have been sent into space; from a rubber duck sporting the England football team’s badge to a €6,000 bottle of French wine. 🍾
Now the International Space Station is preparing to welcome another a-typical tenant. 🛰️
