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.
Tesla likely to add solar power roofs to cars
In a Twitter exchange today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will likely add solar charging technology to the roofs of future all-electric cars. "We will probably offer that as an option," Musk wrote in the Twitter exchange with Tesla enthusiasts. In answer to one enthusiast who doubted the Read More...
Harvard scientists think they've pinpointed the physical source of consciousness
Harvard scientists think they've pinpointed the physical source of consciousness This is where awareness lives. Scientists have struggled for millennia to understand human consciousness - the awareness of one's existence. Despite advances in neuroscience, we still don't really know where it comes Read More...
Toyota, in about-face, may mass-produce long-range electric cars
Toyota looking at mass-producing long-range electric vehicles (EVs) that would hit the market around 2020, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday, in what would be a dramatic reversal in strategy for the world's top-selling automaker. Even as rivals such as Nissan Motor Co and Volkswagen AG have Read More...
US electric car sales up 26% through October
US electric car sales continue to trend up, even despite many buyers holding out for a coming Chevy Bolt or Tesla Model 3. Not much has changed at the top of the leaderboard, but note that I’ve updated historical Tesla sales to represent much-higher-than-anticipated US Model S sales. Based on Read More...
Airbus is building flying taxis so that it can become the Uber of the skies
Tech giants are starting to turn their attention to "flying cars." Uber released a 98-page white paper last week outlining its plans to bring "flying cars" to commuters by 2026. Google co-founder Larry Page is also funding a "flying car" project through a start-up named Zee.Aero, and its Read More...
Finland on its way to become world's first country to ban coal use in energy production
The Government is to present its new energy and climate strategy to the Parliament in March, 2017. Finland would thereby become the first country in the world to resort to a statutory prohibition to stop the use of coal in energy production. Coal is a particularly emissions-intensive source of Read More...
Vast Moroccan solar power plant is hard act for Africa to follow
On the edge of the Sahara desert, Morocco is building one of the world's biggest solar power plants in a project largely funded by the European Union. It is a hard success for other African nations to match as they seek to implement a new global deal to combat climate Read More...
All you need to know about our driverless future
This September, Uber, the app-summoned taxi service, launched a fleet of driverless Volvos and Fords in the city of Pittsburgh. While Google has had its own autonomous vehicles on the roads of Mountain View, California, Austin, Texas, Kirkland, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona, for a few years, Read More...
Farmers are perfecting the business of their new solar crops
Land has a new value as a place to generate renewable energy. Farmers are discovering that a field with solar panels can be an attractive “crop” from their business perspective. And as businessmen, they know that market prices fluctuate. Utilities don’t pay the same price for their Read More...
Driving from coast to coast in U.S. in an electric car is about to get easier
The U.S. federal government will designate 48 routes as electric charging corridors to allow coast-to-coast travel and encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, the White House said Thursday. The routes—determined by the U.S. Department of Transportation—will cover 25,000 miles in 35 Read More...