Chinese company Betavolt has created a nuclear-powered diamond battery that, it says, could power a smartphone or similar device for 50 years or keep a drone in the air indefinitely.
Category: 6 February 2024
POINTING THE WAY TO A SYNTHETIC PLANT
Scientists have been altering genomes in bacteria for years, producing bugs that can excrete pharmaceutical drugs or eat toxic waste.
TO BOMB OR NOT BOMB IRAN: THAT IS THE QUESTION
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that it was “an incredibly volatile time in the Middle East.”
PUTIN: WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE MORE LAND BECAUSE OF WEAPONS RAMP UP TO UKRAINE FROM U.S. AND EU
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that his forces will have to seize more Ukrainian land because of the ongoing threat of long-range missiles that have been provided by the West.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
What difference does it make as to what the equity markets are doing, why they are going up or down or the geopolitical and socioeconomic trends that are shaping the future?
U.S. MIDDLE EAST WAR… WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE MARKETS
At 4:00PM EST, immediately after the closing bell at the NY Stock Exchange (as is standard procedure), the U.S. began a heavy military strike against multiple Iranian targets.
NO GROWTH: EUROZONE ECONOMY FLATLINES, GERMANY GOES DOWN
Although Germany’s economy contracted by 0.3 percent in 2023’s fourth quarter, the 20-country Eurozone’s GDP neither shrank nor grew during the period, according to figures reported by Eurostat, the zone’s statistics office.
THE GENE EDITED FOOD YOU DON’T (AND WON’T) KNOW YOU’RE EATING
Gene editing is proliferating at a rate perhaps even faster than our forecasts of 2021 and 2022 said would happen—and we didn’t hold back the nightmare scenarios.
TRUE MAGNITUDE OF DEVASTATION IN GAZA HARD COVERED UP: NO REPORTER ALLOWED
Reporters who have been covering the unfolding genocide in Gaza have been faced with a daunting task of documenting deaths and being targeted by Israelis themselves...
GEN Z LOOKS TO BEDTIME INSTEAD OF PARTY TIME
Younger Americans are more eager to hit the sack than hit up clubs and bars in this post-COVID War world that has killed the human spirit and life on earth.