Monthly Archives: September 2020

$1.8-million Vario Perfect ultra-luxury motorhome is 2 Mercedes in 1

Variomobil's new Perfect series flagship, the Perfect 1200 Platinum, is a taste of exclusive real estate atop a triple-axle Mercedes chassis, with three slide-outs and an XXL garage for a Mercedes-AMG GT.

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Conservation efforts prevented dozens of extinctions, says study

We're on the brink of a sixth major extinction event, largely thanks to human activity and climate change. The least we could do is try to prevent some of them, and now a study has quantified how many species we may have saved in the last few decades.

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Astronomers detect strongest known magnetic field in the universe

Astronomers have detected the strongest magnetic field ever observed in the universe. Studying X-ray signals from a neutron star, the team calculated that its magnetic field is tens of millions of times stronger than any created in a lab on Earth.

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Cashed-up Sarcos exoskeleton powers toward commercial production

Last year, we got our first look at an ambitious take on high-tech exoskeletons in the Guardian XO from Sarcos Robotics, which has just gathered US$40 million in new funding to bring its full-bodied suit to market in 2021.

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Winery Cuts Energy Use in Treating Wastewater By 50%

The Castello Banfi winery, where the famous Brunello di Montalcino wine is produced, needed a new aeration system for its wastewater. With a solution from Xylem, including Sanitaire Silver Series II membrane disc diffusers and a Sanitaire TurboMAX turbo blower, the winery was able to cut the energy used by its wastewater treatment plant in half.

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Volvo’s electric bus batteries to gain a second life in energy storage

We’ve seen the likes of Nissan and Renault make moves to give their electric vehicle batteries a second life as energy storage devices, and now Volvo has revealed plans to do the same with the help of startup Batteryloop.

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First mission for close-up study of binary asteroids gets NASA go-ahead

NASA has given the University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin the green light for the Janus mission, which tasks a pair of small satellites with returning the first high-resolution images of binary asteroids.

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5 robotic process automation tools to eliminate tedium in your organization

Robotic process automation can end the monotony of daily work. These RPA tools can hand that busywork off to bots, freeing up employee time for more worthwhile endeavors. Robotic process…

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