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These Apartments Grow Their Own Air Conditioning

A newly completed 15-unit apartment building in Hamburg, Germany, is already turning heads. Although, with a facade covered in sun-tracking algae tanks, it’s hard not to stare.

9 April 2013

Science

The Next World-Changing Supermaterial Is Grown, Not Made

Watch out graphene; something’s coming to eat your supermaterial lunch. Nanocellulose is poised to be the kevlar-strength, super-light, greenhouse gas-eating nanomaterial of the future. And the best part? It’s made by nothing but algae.

19 June 2012

Science

Algae-Powered Pods Provide Fresh Air In An Otherwise Polluted Environment

In what is becoming an increasingly polluted world, Chlorella, a portable, pod-shaped, air-purifying pavilion prototype (yes, all those p-words were in fact necessary), offers an oasis of fresh air in a zen-like and environmentally-friendly setting.

6 June 2012

Science

Super-Salty Lake Looks Like A Strawberry Milkshake

Photographed from above it looks like a pool of melty strawberry ice cream, but Lake Retba, which runs blood-red through Senegal, West Africa, gets its unusual colour from an unusually high salt content — up to 40 per cent in some parts!

6 October 2011

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Surfing Bioluminescent Waves Looks Like A Beautiful Hallucination

The first time I saw waves light up in beautiful colours as they crashed onto the beach I thought someone had slipped me some acid. It’s real, though. Bioluminescent phytoplankton cause this spectacular light show, and wow, someone’s surfing it.

23 April 2011

Science

Intel’s Move From Processors To Algae

Renewable energies have gotten a lot of hype over the last few years. It seems only appropriate that an Intel campus in Arizona should be the first semiconductor company to receive LEED certification for a manufacturing campus right before Earth Day.

22 July 2010

Cars

Half A Plane Flown Using Algae Juice

One of the two engines of this plane is running on biofuel derived from algae. And it managed to stay in the air.

2 December 2009

Bandai’s Mugen Tokoroten Repeats Niche Pleasure Of Squeezing Sea Algae

Popping bubblewrap, or opening beer cans just not your obsessive compulsive cup of tea? Here’s another toy for Bandai’s Mugen range: the Mugen Tokoroten, which simulates squeezing a sea algae snack. 630 Yen for our Japanese brethren. [CNET Asia]

1 May 2009

Science

Scientists Use Laser Beams and Engineered Algae Viruses to Control Your Mind

That’s right: Scientists will achieve mind control. By shining laser beams. Directly at cells in your brain. Which have been intentionally infected. By a blue-light sensitive virus. That they made in a lab. From algae.

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