Science
From mathematics and AI to medicine and psychology, The Optimist Daily features the latest news on discoveries, technological advances, and breakthroughs in the world of science. Our Science section is here to engage and enlighten you.
Electric vehicles made up nearly half of all new cars sales in Norway last month
California is often touted as the capital of electric cars, but a new report indicates that title belongs to Norway. In the month of September, the Scandinavian country reported 6,524 new registrations of plug-in electric cars, taking a record 48.4 percent of the market share. The big surprise Read More...
Epic world solar car race kicks off in Australia
Have you ever heard of The World Solar Challenge? Its an endurance race designed to inspire innovation in solar power by having teams from all over the world design and build vehicles that are powered only by the sun, before racing them from Darwin in northern Australia to Adelaide in the south, Read More...
These high-flying solar balloons are set to bring connection back to Puerto Rico
With around 83 percent of Puerto Rico currently without cell service, the US has granted Google’s parent company Alphabet an experimental license to bring connection back to the island using high-flying communications balloons. The idea is to use a fleet of solar-powered balloons fitted with Read More...
China hastens the world toward an electric-car future
There is a powerful reason that automakers worldwide are speeding up their efforts to develop electric vehicles — and that reason is Read More...
Tesla is already making plans to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid
There seems to be no limit to what Elon Musk believes he can accomplish. Just days after surpassing the halfway mark on the world’s largest battery installation in South Australia, the CEO of Tesla has offered to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid from the ground up. Tesla has already begun Read More...
Reusing EV batteries for household storage with Australian company Relectrify
Australia’s two biggest clean energy financiers are putting money into a new venture by Melbourne-based start-up Relectrify that proposes to re-use electric vehicle batteries for household Read More...
Growth solar energy outperforms all other sources of power for the first time
Solar has taken pole position when it comes to the growth of energy sources, according to new statistics of the International Energy Agency. This leading energy institute expects that solar will continue to dominate renewables—and energy sources at large—in the years ahead. The IEA expects Read More...
Babel fish? Overcoming the language barrier with Google’s new earbuds
Would the world be a better place when we would all speak the same language? It is tempting to think so. The language barrier stands in the way of much understanding. That’s why the Polish physician, Ludwig Zamenhof, created Esperanto as a universal language in 1887. Millions learned the Read More...
US Senate bill: Self-driving cars don’t need steering wheels
There is a battle going on in the halls of US congress about self-driving cars: to trust humans, or not to trust them. Less trusting legislators have seized the upper Read More...
Flying robot can patrol homes autonomously while users are away
Drones are quickly deployable, discreet and autonomous, making them ideal for providing personal security, such as an ‘on-demand’ street light and as part of an external home security system, and now there’s a robot that can fly itself around the home to keep a lookout for Read More...