The world has reached a significant milestone in the push for more renewable energy. According to photovoltaics publication PV Magazine [https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/15/humans-have-installed-1-terawatt-of-solar-capacity/] , There are now enough solar panels installed throughout the globe to generate 1 terawatt (TW) of electricity directly from the sun, enough...
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched [https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-launches-clinical-trial-three-mrna-hiv-vaccines] Phase I clinical trials for three experimental HIV vaccine candidates. Developed by Moderna, all three vaccines utilize mRNA technology, the same platform used for creating the companyâs FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine. * The vaccines prompt...
A Russian fast-food franchise called âUncle Vanyaâ is looking to capitalize on business left on the table by McDonaldâs after the company closed all of its 850 stores in the country. * Uncle Vanya filed for a trademark on March 12 with the Russian government, revealing a logo that looks...
President Joe Biden announced sanctions on Russian crude oil [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/world/europe/biden-bans-russian-oil.html] on March 8. The formal embargo comes in the wake of rising gas prices in the US, as an increasing number of corporations refuse to import Russian crude. The Cost...
New York-based Aether [https://aetherdiamonds.com/] is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) startup that makes lab-grown diamonds from carbon recaptured from the atmosphere. While it sounds straight out of sci-fi, the company already began shipping products to customers in the middle of 2021 and claims that it has produced âhundredsâ of carats...
The first human to receive a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig, David Bennett (57), has died two months after the surgery. The pig heart functioned normally for several weeks, and the University of Maryland Medical Center provided regular updates suggesting that Bennet was improving. Bennettâs body did not...
