Senior Positive Impact Reporter
Elena covers breakthrough innovations and social enterprises creating measurable change worldwide.
Some tiny houses seem to prioritize portability over comfort, but the Apex takes the opposite approach. It trades mobility for a spacious single-floor layout that's closer to an apartment than a traditional tiny house....
Amid rising domestic demand for semiconductors fueled by the rapid expansion of AI, China’s JCET has announced plans to invest $1.15 billion in a new manufacturing facility in Shanghai. The Chinese chip-packaging and testing giant said the project will be developed through a controlled subsidiary wi...
As the demand for electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and portable electronics continues to grow, researchers are searching for battery technologies that can store more energy, cost less, and last longer than today’s lithium-ion batteries. Among the most promising candidates are lithium–sul...
Infineon Technologies has opened its Smart Power Fab in Dresden, Germany, months ahead of schedule, bringing the world’s largest manufacturing facility for intelligent power semiconductors and analog/mixed-signal technologies into operation. The facility represents a €5 billion (about $5.7 billion) ...
Chinese equipment manufacturer Zoomlion has unveiled five new-energy technology achievements spanning construction, mining, and agricultural machinery, as the company accelerates its shift toward low-emission heavy equipment. The technologies were recognized during Zoomlion’s seventh Science and Tec...
In the 2025 musical film The Testament of Ann Lee, a radical 18th-century prophetess who claims to speak with God leads her followers from England to America. Remarkably, this story is based on real history. Even more remarkably, “Mother Ann’s” loyal followers would go on to invent devices you may h...
The museum, which started in New York and hasn't had a permanent exhibition space in several years, depicts the history and influence of U.S. financial institutions...
Building a paper airplane can be as demanding as building the airframe of a real aircraft. And once a group of students in Pisa set out to make the world’s largest one, the classroom craft turned into a very real engineering problem, tackling stability, weight, stiffness and aerodynamics with an alm...
Indonesia’s recent ratification of the ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (C188) is a historic milestone for the country’s fisheries sector. The ratification is expected to strengthen the protection of fishers; improve working and living conditions at sea; and enhance the competitiveness of Indone...
Keysight Technologies and WIN Semiconductors have introduced a joint design workflow that aims to help gallium nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) developers achieve successful chip fabrication on the first attempt, reducing expensive redesigns and delays. The integrated wor...
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Joby Aviation and the Toyota Motor Corp. have reached a stockholders’ agreement to establish an air mobility joint venture to produce Joby’s S4 Series electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, acc...
UC Berkeley Professor Joshua Blumenstock uses machine learning and AI to solve the world's biggest global development challenges. By Charlotte Khadra July 2, 2026 Joshua Blumenstock was always interested in being of service to others....
Researchers at Rice University and North Carolina State University have developed a stretchable battery that draws moisture from the air to generate electricity, eliminating the need for conventional liquid electrolytes while powering wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The moisture-activ...
The next time an ambitious adventurer gets trapped in a flooded cave, the person coming to their rescue might not be a human at all. It might be a mind-controlled, diving-suit-wearing cockroach. Sorry, entomophobes. These cyborgs are already being used in search-and-rescue operations and pipeline in...
For the first time in over half a century, the United States government is clearing the way for a new generation of ultrafast aircraft to take to the skies. A ban on continental supersonic flight has been in place since the 1970s, to ensure nobody endures the noisy sonic booms left in their wake. Ae...
LLMs are more predictable than you think: Ask any major chatbot for a random number between 1 and 10 and you'll almost certainly get 7. This isn't coincidence—it reflects a deep tendency in AI models to converge on the same familiar answers. An Australian startup is training AI to be weirder: Spring...
Engineers have created innovative materials that pull drinking water from the air, including a water-harvesting jacket and a record-setting collection system....
Momentum Technologies, a Texas-based critical materials company, has announced that it has achieved record purity levels in recovering rare earth elements (REEs). According to the company it recovered 99.9 percent pure neodymium praseodymium oxide from e-waste and magnet production waste. It also re...
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A federal judge on Monday permanently prohibited the Trump administration from withholding funding for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel project, which the U.S. Department of Transportation put under admini...
The app said it will be rolling out usernames gradually, in a move meant to improve privacy.Change is coming for some three billion users of the world’s favourite messaging platform, WhatsApp.The social media app owned by Meta will allow users to be identified by usernames instead of phone numbers, ...