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December 20, 2022

Meet the 12-Year-Old Who Invented an Edible Water Bottle: “My Biggest Inspiration Was Wanting to Help the World”

Across the world, humans purchase around 1.3 billion single-use plastic water bottles a day. Because only about 9% of plastic is recycled, the vast majority of those bottles — 22 billion a year by some estimates — wind up in landfills, the ocean, or elsewhere in nature.  When beach-loving Madison Checketts began noticing many of those […]

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Madison Checketts stands in front of her poster board presentation of her edible water bottle

Rideshare in the Air: New Electric “Air Taxis” Could Be the Commute of the Near-Future

Imagine Uber-like air travel: a convenient way to order an “air taxi” from one point of a city to another. It may sound futuristic, but it isn’t light-years away — companies in the United States and across the globe have already begun investing in electric air taxis that aim to make commuting quicker and more

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volocopter's electric air taxi, VoloCity, which is white and sleek with an overhead circular propeller, flies over Tokyo in a artistic rendering
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