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Breakthrough device takes first large bite out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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This week in future tech, a company hoping to take on the scourge of microplastic has successfully caught tonnes of ocean plastic. After a year’s worth of testing, a large device developed by The Ocean Cleanup has caught its first haul of plastic from the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Launched from the Canadian city […]

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Flexible solar cells that cover a car within reach after breakthrough

Electric cars of the future could be covered almost entirely in solar cells following a substantial flexible solar cells breakthrough. Researchers at the University of Warwick believe their latest creation could be revolutionary for the auto industry. In a paper published to Advanced Functional Materials, they described the forging of solar cells that use mixtures