Exclusive: Brighton has won the first gold Sustainable Food City award – with its pay-as-you-feel cafes, cooking classes for teenagers and a zero-waste community pub on a working-class estate
29/11/2020 The Independent
Unless you’ve been on a silent retreat for the past year, you will have almost certainly heard the rumours – that the pandemic is an elaborate hoax, or that the virus was created as a Chinese weapon, or that dangerous elites are trying to kill off…
29/11/2020 The Guardian
I started getting interested in coding when I was about 11. I joined a local community lab where biologists and computer scientists come together and conduct experiments.
29/11/2020 The Guardian
Updated at 2:25 p.m. ET on December 1, 2020. Every Tuesday morning, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. Sign up to get The Weekly Planet, our guide…
25/11/2020 The Atlantic
Scotland has become the first country in the world to provide free and universal access to period products after a four-year campaign that has fundamentally shifted the public discourse around menstruation.
24/11/2020 The Guardian
Siemens and Germany's rail operator Deutsche Bahn have announced plans to test a hydrogen-powered train with a range of more than 370 miles, technology that promises to reduce CO2 emissions and help make 1,300 diesel units obsolete.
23/11/2020 CNN
A group of scientists have discovered a “more elegant chemotherapy” that can accurately target cancerous cells in a first in the battle against the disease. The research successfully killed cancerous cells while leaving healthy ones around it using…
23/11/2020 The Independent
Christine Jardine, a Scottish politician who represents Edinburgh in the UK parliament, was not a fan of universal basic income before the pandemic hit.
23/11/2020 CNN
Can we harness natural and human-made carbon traps to help us slow climate change?
22/11/2020 LiveScience
A new antifungal compound that is effective against multidrug-resistant fungi has been isolated from bacteria living in filter-feeding marine animals called sea squirts
19/11/2020 NewScientist
Growing up in Mississippi, Noah Harris didn't picture himself going to Harvard. He said, "I just didn't even know that it was it was an option."
19/11/2020 USA Today
A novel material made from rotting fruit and vegetables that absorbs stray UV light from the sun and converts it into renewable energy has landed its designer the first sustainability gong in this year’s James Dyson awards.
19/11/2020 The Guardian
Maneuvering around household furniture or slicing bread for breakfast are tasks that most of us do without thinking.
18/11/2020 CNN
Shops in Scotland have become the first place in the UK to stock wine in paper bottles in a move which aims to reduce the carbon footprint associated with glass bottles.
17/11/2020 The Independent
Breakthrough technology that transforms the body into a virus-zapping vaccine factory is poised to revolutionise the fight against COVID-19 but future pandemics and even cancer could be next, scientists say. The initial success of so-called…
16/11/2020 Reuters
It is hard not to feel a thrill of excitement when you land on the Galaxy Zoo homepage and read the words “Few have witnessed what you’re about to see” looming out of a star-strewn black background.
16/11/2020 The Guardian
Rocking a blazer with a t-shirt, John George tips the brim of his baseball cap embroidered with an Old English "D."
15/11/2020 CNN
While the world must wait to see whether US president-elect Joe Biden can fulfil his election promise of a $2tn Green New Deal, nations elsewhere in the world are setting carbon-neutral targets and pushing ahead with mega-programmes to cut…
11/11/2020 The Guardian
An organisation has developed a process to produce biochar from the invasive water hyacinth. The so-called C2C biochar destroys weeds, improves soil yield, protects the climate and generates new sources of income for communities.
11/11/2020 Reset.org
Transporting medical supplies from pharmacy to care home shows how driverless vehicles could become common sight on UK streets
10/11/2020 The Independent
The "sci-fi" travel concept involves travelling in pods inside vacuum tubes at very high speeds.
09/11/2020 BBC
