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 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...
Tesla may share supercharger access with other car manufacturers
Tesla is willing to partner with other car brands to share their superchargers which charge much faster than other charges. This way, more electric cars could enter the mainstream. After all, potential buyers of more affordable electric car brands may be more willing to buy if it came with the Read More...
Renewables overtake coal in the UK, wind and solar power capacity surge
There's something big happening in the UK. Al Gore and several business leaders grilled the country this week for cutting subsidies to solar and wind energy, but new government statistics show that Britain is already changing the way it produces electricity. For the first time in history, Read More...
Bitcoin and sharing economy pave the way for new 'digital state'
The sharing economy and the blockchain are technological innovations that could pave the way for a new digital state, according to Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock MP. Services like Airbnb and Uber, which epitomise the so-called "sharing economy" by allowing users to cut out the middle men Read More...
What clean-energy innovators can learn from Apple
We noted in an earlier piece that Bill Gates’s “moonshot” investments to stop climate change, while well intentioned, are misdirected. We do need an Apollo Project for clean energy but it should be an effort that focuses on global deployment of technologies we already Read More...