Quartz reports on a major move toward a cleaner, carbon-neutral future:
… Read the rest “The world’s largest shipping firm is putting $1.4 billion into sustainable engines.”The ships will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries and are due to be delivered by 2024, each at a price tag of $175 million,
Scientific American looks at a weird new power source, using probably the most common building material in the modern world as a kind of rechargeable battery:
… Read the rest “A square meter of concrete can store the electricity of two AA batteries.”Experimental concrete batteries
Ars Technica busts a long-running myth about batteries – that they’re always five years away from any real improvement – with a look at how better batteries are already… Read the rest “Today’s batteries are better.”
Science Advances outlines a way to use a platinum-tungten-zirconium catalyst (“Pt/WO3/ZrO2” for short) along with a zeolite crystal to turn trash into, if not treasure,… Read the rest “Turning hard-to-recycle plastics into jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline.”
Science magazine celebrates a new natural way to replace the artificial dyes that make candy, soda and ice cream blue – by stabilizing the pigments found inside red cabbage:
… Read the rest “Red cabbage could soon turn your food blue (and green and purple) – naturally.”The food
MIT News looks at the new science of tissue engineering, taking lab-grown cells and training them to grow objects to order:
… Read the rest ““Just grow a table.””It takes a lot to make a wooden table. Grow a tree, cut it down, transport
Big Think has a piece on a NASA concept to convert atmosphere – and specifically, the gases we animals exhale – into protein powder like folks put in their smoothies:
… Read the rest “A Finnish company is making food out of air – CO2 & water, to be precise.”A company
The Marquis d’Oró (without that accent mark, he’d be the Marquis of Gold) has a coat of arms with a diagram of the molecule adenine in it, on the sinister side… Read the rest “Science Art: Escut del Marquès d’Oró (Escutcheon of the Marquis d’Oró)”
PhysOrg reminds me here of a piece of jewelry my mother won at an auction, which she then gave to me to give to the lady of my affections. It was a pair of Victorian earrings made from human hair.… Read the rest “Spinning yarn from human skin”
Nature looks at what it takes to make a 100 percent efficient catalyst for getting clean fuel from water:
… Read the rest “To make hydrogen from water and sunlight, you need an efficient catalyst. Here’s a perfect one.”The largest potential source of renewable energy is the Sun: about 0.02% of the solar
The Guardian looks forward to a time when our plastic bottles will be replaced with plant-based containers that turn into, essentially, mulch in a year:
… Read the rest “Better bottles.”The plans, devised by renewable
Science News opens a new book on an old pigment, reconstructing a botanical purple-blue hue that had puzzled medievalists for ages:
… Read the rest “Medieval Blue is Remade”The pigment, called folium, graced the pages of medieval
Nature takes a look at how the tragic fire at Notre Dame last year created a unique opportunity for researchers to study medieval construction:
… Read the rest “Learning from the ashes of Notre Dame”The structure was modified in the Middle Ages
Science News proves that there’s always something new to figure out – in this case, with one of the most common and worked-with metals we know: lead. New research shows after… Read the rest “Squeezing lead makes it stronger than steel.”
Inverse covers an invention that should invisibly make a difference in some of the world’s hungriest communities, beating back malnutrition-based diseases with super-tiny capsules… Read the rest “Microscopic nutrient doses to solve malnutrition. (With Bill Gates as a lab rat.)”
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