WEIRD SCIENCE
Semi artificial photosynthesis takes a cue from plants. By James Dennin – One of the more long shot efforts to not only develop more renewable energy, but also to help mitigate climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is a process …
By Mike Brown – SpaceX wants to give rise to a human settlement on Mars. Starting small with a couple of spaceships and expanding out into a sprawling metropolis, a colony on the red planet is partially the vision of Paul Wooster, principal …
Anthony Wood – Image of Earth captured by NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite (Credit: NASA). An international team of scientists has proposed a series of deadlines by which humanity must take serious action to combat climate change if it is …
Darren Quick – Camu camu extract has been found to prevent obesity in mice fed a high-fat and high-sugar diet (Credit: LeRoc (CC BY-SA 3.0)). Found in the Amazon rainforest in Peru and Brazil, camu camu fruit has gained popularity around the …
Michael Irving – A new study suggests there may be 1,000 times more diamonds in the Earth’s interior than previously believed (Credit: kelpfish/Depositphotos). In case you weren’t already sure that diamonds aren’t as unique or valuable as advertisers want us to believe, the …
Michael Irving – A Mars-sized planetary body could be hiding in our Solar System beyond Pluto (Credit: Heather Roper/LPL). In January last year, astronomers from Caltech suggested that a gigantic so-far-undiscovered planet might be lurking on the fringes of the Solar System. Now …
Michael Irving – New research shows how ash from volcanic eruptions could trigger drastic climate shifts, as was the case in 1816 (Credit: Byelikova/Depositphotos). The year 1816 was a weird one, climatically speaking. Months that would normally be warm and pleasant were …
Michael Irving – A scanning electron microscope of the new battery anode: left containing asphalt, graphene nanoribbons and lithium, while the right image only contains the asphalt and graphene (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University). As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing …
by Mike Colagrossi – An asteroid of approximate size of a minimoon, c/o NASA. For nearly four billion years, Earth and the Moon have been inseparable as they’ve journeyed together through the cosmic void. It’s our only permanent satellite we’ll ever know. But …
by Paul Ratner – Credit: ABC. In 1973, a computer program was developed at MIT to model global sustainability. Instead, it predicted that by 2040 our civilization would end. While many in history have made apocalyptic predictions that have so far failed …
