(Natural News) The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), a research facility of the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy, has successfully transmitted 1.6 kilowatts of electrical energy over one kilometer by converting electricity into microwaves, which are then sent to a receiver in a directed beam using a dish as a transmitting antenna. According to […]

(Natural News) A former Google employee reveals that the company is building an artificial intelligence (AI) machine that looks like something straight out of a sci-fi thriller. Mo Gawdat, a former chief business officer who joined the company in 2007, says that the mysterious Google X department is developing a machine that can quickly learn. In particular, he has […]

(Natural News) The Department of Energy‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed its wireless charging technology to Brooklyn-based company HEVO. The system provides high-power levels that could one day enable electric vehicles to be charged as they are driven at highway speeds. HEVO intends to continue working with ORNL on this technology to increase the power […]

(Natural News) Most of the solar panels installed in the U.S. and Europe are produced with coal-burning plants in China. There have been concerns that the solar industry’s reliance on Chinese coal will increase emissions over time. Manufacturers rapidly scale up the production of solar panels to meet the demand of the public, making the […]

(Natural News) The Sugar Mediterranean Bistro in Stockton, California gets its food rolled out and delivered to customers faster and more efficiently – thanks to its robot employee. General Manager Ana Ortiz said the robot, which is made of food trays, takes a load off her as the restaurant struggled with worker shortage. “It is a […]

(Natural News) A new study has found that certain bacteria can turn into a material that can hold bricks together in the same manner as cement. Concrete is the most used material on Earth after water, at a rate of three metric tons per year per person. Cement, which is the primary component of concrete, […]

(Natural News) Far from just being a luxurious clothing material, silk could have numerous applications in engineering and biomedicine. This was the conclusion that an international team of multi-disciplinary scientists came to in their study, published in Nature Communications. According to the investigators, the nano-architecture of silk makes it highly effective at causing “Anderson localization […]