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A Canadian company has developed a sustainable solution harnessing the power of ocean waves. Oneka Technologies’ floating desalination machines use renewable wave energy to turn seawater into drinking water.

Anchored offshore, these eco-friendly devices pump and filter thousands of liters daily without any energy input. Oneka's approach provides clean water while protecting marine life through proper brine discharge. With the technology set to launch commercially next year, wave-powered desalination promises a scalable path for expanding water security across the globe. Discover more about how the motion of waves could quench communities in an energy-efficient, sustainable manner in today’s world. READ MORE.

I'm a president

Did You Know Despite the widely held misunderstanding that Franklin D. Roosevelt had polio, his health problems and lower body paralysis were now considered the result of Guillain-Barr syndrome, a very rare autoimmune disorder that damages the peripheral nervous system.

Roosevelt's doctor, Robert W. Lovett, believed that the president had contracted the polio virus when he visited a Scout camp 13 days earlier. Dr Lovett was then the leading American doctor for polio. For him, fever and the crippling side effects were sufficient to diagnose the president with polio. The reason why all factors were pointed at polio, the disease was rampant during that period with several outbreaks reported during the previous summer in many cities. In addition, very little was known of the Guillain-Barré Syndrome. The truth is that even if the doctors would have correctly diagnosed FDR, there was no treatment for GBS and very little was known about it. Roosevelt would have still received the same treatment he did with polio diagnosis. Roosevelt bounded on his wheelchair surely resembled a polio survivor. Roosevelt himself believed he had polio, which is why he started advocating for polio research which led to the March of Dime, officially known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, an initiative geared towards raising funds to fight polio. It was his famous misdiagnosis that initiated research on the disease, development of vaccine and several campaigns to create public awareness. It is so ironical that this misdiagnosis is saving thousands of lives today.

Windpower

Nice website with interactive maps and updated data on the current status of windEnergy

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Although Rocky Balboa might eat raw eggs as part of his training, he's doing it wrong. Cooking eggs actually makes 91 percent more protein available (almost 6 grams of digestible protein versus 3 grams from a raw egg). Did You Know Until 1982, U.S. pennies were 95 percent copper, but were phased out over the course of the year to a 97.5 percent zinc version with a copper finish.

As countries grapple with growing water scarcity, a Canadian company has developed a sustainable solution harnessing the power of ocean waves. Oneka Technologies’ floating desalination machines use renewable wave energy to turn seawater into drinking water. Anchored offshore, these eco-friendly devices pump and filter thousands of liters daily without any energy input. Oneka's approach provides clean water while protecting marine life through proper brine discharge. With the technology set to launch commercially next year, wave-powered desalination promises a scalable path for expanding water security across the globe. Discover more about how the motion of waves could quench communities in an energy-efficient, sustainable manner in today’soneka"

Supermassive black hole

at the heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit, dragging space-time along with it

"Discovering that Sgr A* is rotating at its maximum speed has far-reaching implications for our understanding of black hole formation and the astrophysical processes associated with these fascinating cosmic objects," Xavier Calmet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Sussex who was not involved in the research, told Live Science in an email.

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I'm a blackhole

Supermassive black hole

at the heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit, dragging space-time along with it

"Discovering that Sgr A* is rotating at its maximum speed has far-reaching implications for our understanding of black hole formation and the astrophysical processes associated with these fascinating cosmic objects," Xavier Calmet, a theoretical physicist at the University of Sussex who was not involved in the research, told Live Science in an email.

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I'm a windmill

Clean Energy

The Industrial Revolution, beginning in the mid-18th century, led to the start of an anthropogenic (human-caused) rise in greenhouse gas emissions from Europe and the United States

Global warming refers to the increase in the planet’s overall average temperature in recent decades. Natural processes have always affected Earth’s temperature and climate, but more recently, the planet’s temperature and climate have changed at a higher pace than nature alone can explain. These rapid changes are due to human activities and the widespread use of fossil fuels for energy.Click to read more-->Global Warming

As countries grapple with growing water scarcity, a Canadian company has developed a sustainable solution harnessing the power of ocean waves. Oneka Technologies’ floating desalination machines use renewable wave energy to turn seawater into drinking water. Anchored offshore, these eco-friendly devices pump and filter thousands of liters daily without any energy input. Oneka's approach provides clean water while protecting marine life through proper brine discharge. With the technology set to launch commercially next year, wave-powered desalination promises a scalable path for expanding water security across the globe. Discover more about how the motion of waves could quench communities in an energy-efficient, sustainable manner in today’s