The question has puzzled humans from the earliest philosophers to the ranks of home workers who have swapped water cooler gossip for rants on Zoom: does being a jerk help people get to the top?
31/08/2020 The Guardian
Researchers are developing a new battery powered by lab-grown gems made from reformed nuclear waste. If it works, it will last thousands of years.
31/08/2020 Wired
A few years ago, I was having dinner with a group of girlfriends when one of them suddenly began raving about menstrual cups. A longtime devotee, she lit up describing how this one little product had changed her life.
31/08/2020 The Guardian
Shape memory alloys and a kind of plastic crystal chill quickly under force or pressure. They could lead to eco-friendly fridges and air conditioners.
30/08/2020 Wired
A glue that coats the interior of the gut when swallowed can be enhanced with enzymes to treat lactose intolerance, tests in pigs show – and it could also help treat obesity
26/08/2020 NewScientist
Leeds will launch its first Festival of Kindness next weekend with organisers seeking to foster unity after years of division
26/08/2020 Positive News
Roboticists have produced a million microscopic walking robots on a silicon wafer – in future, similar robot armies could roam inside the human body
26/08/2020 NewScientist
Nobody will ever know the identity of the thousands of African children who were not killed or paralyzed by polio this year. They would have been hard to keep track of no matter what because in ordinary times, they would have followed thousands last…
25/08/2020 Time Magazine
From lab-grown spider silk to ‘living dyes’, biotechnology is being used to make clothes that don’t cost the earth
24/08/2020 Positive News
A Nordic hedge fund worth more than $90bn (£68.6bn) has dumped its stocks in some of the world’s biggest oil companies and miners that are responsible for lobbying against climate action.
24/08/2020 The Guardian
Researchers in Berlin want to know how 'unconditional flow of money' affects people's behaviour
19/08/2020 The Independent
Reducing the cobalt content in lithium-ion batteries is good for the environment, human rights, and maybe even the performance of the battery itself.
17/08/2020 Wired
A UK uncrewed ocean-going vessel provides a glimpse of the future of robotic maritime operations.
14/08/2020 BBC
Denis Shiryaev uses algorithms to colorize and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to a smooth 60 frames per second. The result is a stunning glimpse at the past.
12/08/2020 Wired
Tobacco plants have been modified with a protein found in algae to improve their photosynthesis and increase growth, while using less water, in a new advance that could point the way to higher yielding crops in a drought-afflicted future.
10/08/2020 The Guardian
More than 10,000 baby turtles were released into the sea off the Indonesian island of Bali, as part of conservationists’ attempts to boost the population of a vulnerable species and promote environmental protection.
08/08/2020 The Guardian
A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads—and its revenues went way up.
05/08/2020 Wired
What is the most effective thing an individual can do about climate change? There are lots of possible answers: what…
04/08/2020 The Atlantic
By growing native trees in Chennai, volunteers help push back against water shortages and the loss of green spaces.
03/08/2020 Al Jazeera
