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Decades ago, Colorado’s mountain communities, struggling with sky-high real estate values, implemented “inclusionary” ordinances that required developers to set aside a share of the units they built at a lower price or lower rent. Aspen, Colorado, consistently tops the list of the most expensive places in the world to live on March 4, 2024. Nestled in the Roaring Fork Valley, Aspen boasts one of the highest concentrations of ultra-expensive real estate globally, intensifying the struggle for affordable housing options…

Photo: 24M Technologies MIT spinout and battery maker 24M Technologies today debuted a new direct-material battery recycling process for EV batteries and battery storage. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based 24M Technologies, which boasts Volkswagen as a commercial partner, “has simplified lithium-ion battery production with a new design that requires fewer materials and fewer steps to manufacture each cell,” according to MIT News. 24 Technologies says the design, which it calls “SemiSolid” for…

Researchers studying tomb epitaphs from medieval China’s Tang Dynasty have uncovered evidence that education significantly influenced social mobility, similar to its role in modern times. The Imperial Exam, or Keju, was identified as a key factor in promoting meritocracy over aristocracy, illustrating the long-standing impact of education on career advancement and social status. Credit: SciTechDaily.comDemographic information derived from Chinese tomb inscriptions from the 7th to the 10th centuries mirrors sociological…

That pig pancreas study was published in 1988. Were drug companies paying much attention then?Holst: I have always had friendly relationships with Novo Nordisk. It’s in Denmark, just up the street, and we were interested in the same things, so I kept telling them about what we were doing.They were obviously interested in anything that could stimulate insulin secretion, but I must say that when we showed Novo Nordisk that does not stimulate insulin secretion in people with diabetes, they withdrew some research support we…

Gordon E Moore, a cofounder and former chairman of Intel Corp., the California semiconductor chipmaker that helped give Silicon Valley its name, achieving the kind of industrial dominance once held by giant American railroad or steel companies of another age, died Friday at his home in Hawaii. He was 94.His death was confirmed by Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. They did not provide a cause.Along with a handful of colleagues, Moore could claim credit for bringing laptop computers to hundreds of millions of…

Alphabet pulled the plug on Loon in early 2021. It was a business decision, not a reflection on the technology—basically, its mission became moot as remote areas managed to get connected without receiving signals from the mutant offspring of Phileas Fogg. Still, the Loon team working in partnership with a company called Raven Aerostar (more recently the Aerostar division was sold off from Raven)—which had spent decades in balloon technology—can boast that it pushed balloon tech to, um, new heights. “We advanced the…

My cravings for meat are well-known to regular readers (hi mum!). But as a self-righteous vegetarian, I refuse to dine on murdered animals. Those beliefs, however, are now being challenged by a heretic: cultivated meat. Cultivated meat, also known as cultured meat, brings the farm to the lab. Cells are collected from an animal, grown in vitro, and then shaped into familiar forms of edible flesh. Industry advocates proffer myriad benefits — and needs. According to the UN, around 80 billion…