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Want to Promote Sustainable Air Travel? Try an Airship.

Air travel is the most damaging form of transportation that impacts the environment, and with an expected increase in the demand for flight, researchers are looking for ways to combat this. While the options for replacing jet fuel have been developing, it is not being done fast enough.

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Margaret Lee Margaret Lee

The Rise of 3D Printed Housing

Tecla, the first prototype 3D-printed house made of clay, was built in April 2021. It was printed by a multi-levelled, modular 3D printer with 2 synchronised arms from a mixture of locally sourced materials such as soil, water, fibres from rice husks, and a binder; therefore being low carbon.

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Annabelle Kng Annabelle Kng

Hybe’s New Boy Group BOYNEXTDOOR Is Set to Release Their Debut Album on May 30th

Hybe, a K-pop management company which is most famous for managing BTS, has just dropped a new song by their new boy group called BOYNEXTDOOR. The group first released a music video “But I Like You” and released a music video on May 26th for another single, “One and Only” – one of the tracks in their three-song debut project.

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Venus Fung Venus Fung

Researchers Discover Over 5000 New Marine Species

5,578 new marine species have been discovered by an English Expedition in the Pacific Ocean. Picked up by remote-controlled robots, the species were collected and stored in boxes by the Royal Research Ship, James Cook.

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Nathanael Hon Nathanael Hon

IBO releases official statements about the usage of Artificial Intelligence — And why it can be a valuable opportunity for students.

Everyone has heard at least a little about the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence in the past few months, whether it be about Multinational corporations (Such as Google and Microsoft) rushing to develop their very own AI Chatbots, Artificial Intelligence being able to detect the risk Alzheimer's with over a 90% accuracy, or the humorous AI-generated deep fakes of Joe Biden playing Minecraft with Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

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Keshav Gupta Keshav Gupta

 AI Now Capable of Reading Minds by Translating Thoughts into Text

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a non-invasive AI system that has the ability to translate a person’s thoughts into a stream of text, using algorithms to analyze the brain activity. The AI system functions by monitoring electrical signals that are generated by the brain when a person has a thought.

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Annabelle Kng Annabelle Kng

Lauv announces his concert in Hong Kong this August

The famous American singer and songwriter Lauv has announced that he will be coming to Southeast Asia for his upcoming tour this August and September. His tour, “The Between Albums Tour”, will start in Tokyo, Japan and end in Manila, the Philippines, and of course, on August 23rd 2023, he will be stopping by Hong Kong! He will also visit Bangkok, Malaysia, Singapore, Seoul, Taipei etc.

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Margaret Lee Margaret Lee

 What the heck is de-extinction?

De-extinction is about reversing extinction to re-establish processes to restore biodiversity; creating healthy animals to eventually be released into the wild and contribute positively.

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Venus Fung Venus Fung

“Barbie” the Movie

After being on our television screens for two decades, we are finally seeing a live-action Barbie movie make its way to Hollywood. Barbie is hitting the theatres this summer on July 21, 2023, as announced by Warner Bros. Directed by Little Women director, Greta Gerwig, and co-written by Noah Baumbach, Barbie is a fantasy comedy movie based off Mattel’s beloved Barbie dolls. Starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, the movie also features multiple other famous celebrities such as Simu Liu, Dua Lipa, Emma Mackey, Helen Mirren, Michael Cera and even John Cena! Rumour has it that Dua Lipa will be recording the original music for the movie, how amazing is that?

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