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.
Large food brand will power its food factories by mashed potatoes
One of the U.K’s biggest food brands is going green this week by powering one if its factories not by wind or solar, but by potato. In an effort to reduce carbon emissions and eliminate food waste, 2 Sisters Food Group (parent company of some of the UK’s biggest food brands including Fox’s Read More...
How Germany's renewable energy revolution took off
By many measures, Germany is an unlikely birthplace for a renewable-energy revolution. Its reputation for being a generally gloomy country, with few sunny days, is well established. Its onshore wind potential is merely middling. And with the world’s fourth-largest GDP, it requires steady Read More...
Why Google wants its self-driving cars to drive more like you
Google is designing its self-driving cars to operate more like human drivers on the road, according to the Wall Street Journal. That means cutting corners, creeping at stop signs and pausing less frequently. Chris Urmson, Google’s lead on the driverless car project, said at a conference in Read More...
Driverless cars could save tens of millions of lives this century
Automation on the roads could be the great public-health achievement of the 21st century. If driverless cars deliver on their promise to eliminate the vast majority of fatal traffic accidents, the technology will rank among the most transformative public-health initiatives in human history. But how Read More...
Tesla delivers Model X electric SUV to take on luxury carmakers
FREMONT, Calif. Telsa Motors delivered the first of its long-awaited Model X electric sports-utility vehicles on Tuesday, a product investors are counting on to make the pioneering company profitable after years of losses. The launch of the Model X represents a milestone for the loss-making Silicon Read More...
Climate change is so bad that the US and China agree on it
For years, China and the US have kept each other locked in a regulatory stalemate over climate change. As political rivals, neither one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters was going to budge unless it was sure any action it took to curb carbon dioxide emissions wouldn’t let the other Read More...
Solar power invades oil-rich Middle East
Solar energy is becoming a major power player in the Middle East In a patch of otherwise empty desert 30 miles south of Dubai, the outline of what is expected to become the Middle East’s largest photovoltaic solar project is taking form in the sands of the United Arab Emirates. The Mohammed Read More...
Walmart doubles down on renewable energy with wind deal
Walmart WMT is taking a big step toward fulfilling its long-term ambition of being wholly supplied by renewable energy with a new deal to buy more than half of the electricity generated by a new wind power facility in Texas for the next ten years. The world’s largest company will buy 58% of Read More...
How investors plan to make money in renewable energy
Renewable energy is going through a boom as big banks, private equity funds, and people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet invest billions of dollars in solar and wind technology. But by the end of next year, a federal initiative that gives residents and businesses a 30% tax credit for installing Read More...
Elon Musk: Fully autonomous cars with 1,000km electric range are coming in 2017
Elon Musk believes Tesla cars will be fully autonomous by 2018, and have an all-electric range of more than 1,000km, double what it is today. He also predicts that by 2035 all new cars will not require a driver. A renowned futurist and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Musk predicts that the range of the Read More...