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Hydrogen Powered Airships Could Replace Fuel Guzzling Freighter Aircrafts

Hydrogen Powered Airships Could Replace Fuel Guzzling Freighter Aircrafts

One of the primary contribution towards air pollution and the rise of the global warming has been done by the aviation industry, both civilian and military. Nowadays, out skies packed with civilian passenger airlines and cargo or freight transports, that on a continuums basis travel back and forth continents delivering supplies, cargos and other items. [...]
‘Liquid eyeglasses’: solving the dire lack of optometrists in the world’s poorest countries

‘Liquid eyeglasses’: solving the dire lack of optometrists in the world’s poorest countries

A lack of optometrists in the world’s poorest countries means that the poor cannot have their much-needed glasses. One such country is Ghana where there is just one optometrist for every eight million people. There is now a technological solution to this situation which could ‘provide glasses for one billion people.’ Joshua Silver, a physics [...]