Daily Newsletter: 7 Positive Coronavirus Stories and Developments to Help You Lighten Up

Interesting Engineering is a cutting edge, leading community designed for all lovers of engineering, technology and science. [Interesting Engineering]() Friday, 20 Mar 2020 [Elon Musk Claims Starlink Satellites Won't Impact Astronomy, but Research Says Otherwise]( [Elon Musk Claims Starlink Satellites Won't Impact Astronomy, but Research Says Otherwise]( [Space]( Imagine that the date is decades away from now, and you’re lying on the face of Earth, contemplating your place in it as the sky surrounds you. It’s so vast that your own insignificance becomes palpable, and you’re watching the sky as numerous stars shine above you.[Read More]( [EHang to Test Its Electric Passenger Drones in Norway and Spain]( [EHang to Test Its Electric Passenger Drones in Norway and Spain]( [Drones]( Two-person electric drones may be the future of air taxis. Such is the vision that Chinese aviation startup EHang has. The company just received its operational flight permit from the Norwegian Civil Aviation Society for its EHang 216 in Norway and has entered into a cooperation agreement with the government of the city of Seville in Spain to proceed with its Urban Air Mobility (UAM) pilot program.[Read More]( [Volkswagen Unveils Its e-BULLI Crossover between a High-End Classic and an All-Electric Vehicle]( [Volkswagen Unveils Its e-BULLI Crossover between a High-End Classic and an All-Electric Vehicle]( [Vehicles]( Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) has presented its new e-BULLI all-electric vehicle to the world. It's a stunning crossover between a classic 1966 minivan with all the latest drive system components of a modern VW electric vehicle.[Read More]( [Scientists Develop Artificial Photosynthesis System That Can Perform Fuel Generation]( [Scientists Develop Artificial Photosynthesis System That Can Perform Fuel Generation]( [Innovation]( It's been all around us; this idea to generate energy as nature does. This is a complex system that scientists have been trying to copy for numerous years and that is to use sunlight to generate fuel and power our homes and vehicles from CO2 and water.[Read More]( [7 Positive Coronavirus Stories and Developments to Help You Lighten Up]( [7 Positive Coronavirus Stories and Developments to Help You Lighten Up]( [News]( Though positive news stories have largely been buried under an avalanche of statistics, news, and ongoing updates about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lately, they are still out there. It might seem that cheerful stories have been few and far between of late, but even in the direst of circumstances, there is often a silver lining.[Read More]( [YouTuber Tries to Cross the Hottest Lake in the World With an Ice Boat]( [YouTuber Tries to Cross the Hottest Lake in the World With an Ice Boat]( [Entertainment]( Ryan Trahan spent three months building this 4,000 lbs boat made of ice, just to make it sail the length of the world’s hottest lake. Sailing through a lake in a body made of water, what could go wrong? This video is like watching the Titanic, but instead, it feels like the ship and the iceberg switched places.[Read More]( [Friday's Google Doodle Honors Doctor Who Proved Hand Washing Saves Lives]( [Friday's Google Doodle Honors Doctor Who Proved Hand Washing Saves Lives]( [Health]( Today's Google Doodle is remarkably apt given the current global situation. March 20th marks the day that 19th-century Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that washing hands could save lives. It may seem a rather obvious part of our daily routine for us in the 21st century, however, it was not commonplace back in 1847.[Read More]( [Interesting Engineering] [Unsubscribe]( | [Display on interestingengineering.com](