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These are some of the discoveries researchers have made from strapping tiny solar-powered backpacks to migratory songbirds. For the past 10 years, scientists, educators and organizations across ...

But now, James’ company, Soma Bags, is providing a solution: backpacks equipped with solar panels that charge a reading light. What started as a small-scale project with some discarded cement ...