The Fractured Future of Browser Privacy
Better anti-tracking measures have become the norm for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other modern browsers. But they still disagree on how exactly they should work.
30/01/2020 Wired
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January 2020
France passes landmark law to stop unsold goods being thrown away
France is to ban designer clothes and luxury goods companies from destroying unsold or returned items under a wide-ranging anti-waste law passed by parliament on Thursday.
30/01/2020 The Guardian
Pill with tiny needle for painless injections passes first human trial
A pill with a tiny needle that painlessly injects drugs directly into the intestine could replace conventional injections
30/01/2020 NewScientist
Lungs 'magically' heal damage from smoking
The effect has even been seen in people who had smoked for 40 years.
29/01/2020 BBC
Building High-Rises Out of Wood Can Help Save the Planet
Concrete and steel come with massive emissions. So let's ditch them and build towers out of wood. Yes, wood.
27/01/2020 Wired
A car-free future? How UK cities are moving towards a pedestrian age
With York announcing plans to ban private vehicles from its centre, Colin Drury asks: is it a blueprint for a better urban life?
26/01/2020 The Independent
How Super Sniffer Dogs Are Helping Detect Disease Around The World
Our canine buddies can do more than play fetch. Turns out dogs' incredible sense of smell is a secret weapon in medicine.
25/01/2020 NPR
Zero-carbon hydrogen injected into gas grid for first time in groundbreaking UK trial
Zero-carbon hydrogen has been injected into a UK gas network for the first time in a groundbreaking trial that could help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
24/01/2020 The Guardian
How to Make Snake Venom Without Any Snakes
Lab-grown glands can now produce realistic cocktails of toxins, which could help address one of the world’s biggest and most neglected health crises.
23/01/2020 The Atlantic
Climate-friendly heating: How to stay warm without fossil fuels
Many countries have heating systems that still run on coal, oil and gas. But relying on these fossil fuels to keep us warm through winter adds to CO2 emissions. So what are some of the climate-friendly alternatives?
22/01/2020 Deutsche Welle
New solar power source and storage developed
Tie-up of flexible solar film and energy storage aims to take homes and business off-grid.
21/01/2020 BBC
Breakthrough discovery could lead to 'one-size-fits-all' cancer treatment
New type of T-Cells can recognise and kill most types of cancer
20/01/2020 The Independent
China moves to phase out single-use plastics
China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, according to the state planner, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.
19/01/2020 The Guardian
'What the hell is that?': Brewery uses algae to reduce carbon emissions
Young Henrys has installed a 400-litre 'bioreactor' of algae at its Newtown brewery to reduce carbon emissions from its beer production.
18/01/2020 Sydney Morning Herald
How Nottingham is racing to be the UK's first carbon neutral city
Transport, housing and energy use all being transformed in bid to hit zero emissions by 2028
18/01/2020 The Independent
Factbox: Big Tech and their carbon pledges
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would take out of the atmosphere as much carbon as the company had ever produced, joining U.S. tech giants in setting ambitious goals for combating climate change.
16/01/2020 Reuters
Colgate launches vegan-certified toothpaste in recyclable tube
Colgate has launched a new toothpaste which is being billed as the first of a kind because it comes in a recyclable tube. Toothpaste tubes have traditionally been impossible to recycle because they are made from a mixture of plastic and aluminium.
14/01/2020 The Guardian
Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry?
Cocoa husks, dried orange peel, ground blue pea flowers: the ingredients read like a tasting menu. They are, in fact, waste products that are used to make Orb – a sustainable building material that is carbon neutral.
11/01/2020 The Guardian
The Omni Processor: Turning Sewage Into Drinking Water in Senegal (and Beyond?)
Taking the idea of one man's trash being another man's treasure to new lengths, the "omni processor"
11/01/2020 Reset.org
Japanese billionaire giving away £7m to his Twitter followers as 'social experiment'
Fashion tycoon wants to spark 'serious debate' about basic universal income
10/01/2020 The Independent
Progress On Lung Cancer Drives Historic Drop In U.S. Cancer Death Rate
The U.S. cancer death rate dropped more than 2% between 2016 and 2017, the biggest single-year drop ever, according to the American Cancer Society. Better treatment for lung cancer is a factor.
08/01/2020 NPR
The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials
In materials science, 2-D is the new 3-D.
07/01/2020 New York Times
Transforming a symbol of colonialism into a space for African art
Togo's Palais De Lome, once home to German and French colonial rulers, is now home to modern pan-African art.
07/01/2020 Al Jazeera
Medics celebrate success 'beyond our wildest dreams' on haemophilia
British medics say they have achieved results “beyond our wildest dreams” in efforts to treat the most serious form of haemophilia.
05/01/2020 Telegraph
