Scientists have found a simple trick that could dramatically change how our batteries perform. A lithium-ion battery, of the kind used in everything from our phones to our cars, is usually charged up soon after it is first made. That first charge is…
30/08/2024 The Independent
Workers are breaching the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century as the largest dam removal…
28/08/2024 The Independent
At the gates of the Mojave Desert, there is a vast black ocean consisting of more than 1.9 million solar panels. This gigafactory began operating at the beginning of this year and has become one of the most recent additions to the electricity grid…
25/08/2024 El País
Doctors have begun trialling the world’s first mRNA lung cancer vaccine in patients, as experts hailed its “groundbreaking” potential to save thousands of lives. Lung cancer is the world’s leading cause of cancer death, accounting for about 1.8m…
23/08/2024 The Guardian
To figure out what really works when nations try to fight climate change, researchers looked at 1,500 ways countries have tried to curb heat-trapping gases
22/08/2024 The Independent
New method costs about 40 per cent less than current dominant method of lithium extraction and is cleaner, researchers claim
22/08/2024 The Independent
The months of September to May are an unfortunate season in South Africa: malaria season. The mosquito-borne disease is found in the north-eastern districts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. There are fewer malaria cases in South…
19/08/2024 The Conversation
It was the midst of a July heatwave, with humidity sticky in the air. Phoebe Saldana sat in the colorful plaza of her East Harlem housing complex, watching her two young daughters ride scooters and climb on workout equipment.
13/08/2024 The Guardian
Access to safe drinking water — and its equitable distribution — underpins public health. But for the estimated 250,000 people in Kibera, who live without any government infrastructure, clean water is often a luxury. A system that uses aerial pipes…
13/08/2024 Undark Magazine
Wastewater, which is full of pollutants that contain nitrogen, can be directly fed into a new chemical reactor that converts it into ammonia, with purified water and oxygen as by-products
12/08/2024 NewScientist
José de Souza Nogueira is 63 and says he has had malaria more than 130 times. It is an exceptionally high number, even for a country like Brazil, where the mosquito-borne disease is endemic.
12/08/2024 The Guardian
As Paris shines under the global spotlight of the Olympic Games, technological innovations are enabling people with visual impairments to take it in
10/08/2024 The Independent
Bacteria and fungi are evolving to eat plastic but their impact will likely be limited to specific applications, researchers say
09/08/2024 The Independent
Nissan has launched a paint that reportedly keeps cars cooler by upto 12C as sweltering temperatures become the norm across the world.
07/08/2024 The Independent
Germany's capital has a problem with rising temperatures and drought. So the city has come up with solutions for how to collect and store rainwater by turning Berlin into a sponge city.
06/08/2024 Deutsche Welle
Most antibiotics are natural products of bacteria and other microorganisms from the environment. They are part of a silent chemical warfare among microorganisms in soils, rivers and seas right now.
02/08/2024 The Conversation
A 58-year-old in the US has become the first person to survive for several days with a metal heart after his own organ experienced “end-stage” failure.
02/08/2024 The Independent
Driven by prolonged drought and inconsistent public water delivery, some Mexico City residents are changing the way they get water
02/08/2024 The Independent
