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 …
by Evan Fleischer – Young girl in Chicago classroom, Stanley Kubrick for LOOK Magazine, c/o Creative Commons. Daydreaming is important — studies have repeatedly said as much — but maybe you shouldn’t daydream too much, as a recent study by researchers at Ruhr-Universität …
By Terence Chea – DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — University of California researchers are feeding seaweed to dairy cows in an attempt to make cattle more climate-friendly. UC Davis is studying whether adding small amounts of seaweed to cattle feed can help reduce their …
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 …
James Holloway – Temi will go on sale worldwide October 1, 2018, for the confirmed price of US $1,500 (Credit: James Holloway/New Atlas). The personal robot Temi put in an appearance at IFA recently, alongside the news that it will go on sale …
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 …
This fierce all-female army was so ruthless that European colonists called them the Amazons after the merciless warriors of Greek mythology. by Fleur Macdonald – Actors Chadwick Boseman and Michael B Jordan earned high praise for their roles in the 2018 Marvel film …
