Apple partners with Malala Yousafzai’s Malala Fund to help advance girls’ education

Apple partners with Malala Yousafzai’s Malala Fund to help advance girls’ education Apple announced it has partnered with Malala Yousafzai and her nonprofit organization the Malala Fund to help extend education funding programs to India and Latin America. With Apple’s support as the fund’s first Laureate Partner, the Malala Fund has an initial goal to extend…

An Indonesian company uses seaweed as environment-friendly packaging

An Indonesian company uses seaweed as environment-friendly packaging One potential solution to the massive plastic pollution problem could come from Evoware, which makes seaweed-based packaging that is not only 100% biodegradable, but is edible as well. According to the Plastic Pollution Coalition, some 33% of all plastic is “used just once and thrown away,” which…

Harvard’s remarkable new battery can run for more than a decade

Harvard’s remarkable new battery can run for more than a decade Researchers have discovered a way to make the promising flow battery much more practical. Flow batteries store energy in liquid-filled tanks. Prior to this most recent discovery, flow batteries, after a number of charge-discharge cycles, would suffer from rapid storage capacity degradation. In order to…