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A Carbon Sequestration Project Conceived Of In 2016 Is Finally On The Rails

The Porthos Project will gather, compress and store 2.5 Megatons of CO2 annually, last 15 years and top out at 37 Megatons sequestered beneath the seabed of the North Sea permanently.

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A Carbon Sequestration Project Conceived Of In 2016 Is Finally On The Rails

The Porthos Project will gather, compress and store 2.5 Megatons of CO2 annually, last 15 years and top out at 37 Megatons sequestered beneath the seabed of the North Sea permanently.

Global Warming Is Coming For Our Homes

Global warming is coming for your home. In South Florida, 934,000 homes are at risk of being inundated as sea levels rise. In China's Pearl River Delta, thousands of homes were flooded in one recent extreme weather event. Australia's Climate Council recently described the country as an uninsurable nation when it comes to home coverage for climate risks.

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High Speed Internet Coming to Space

Using lasers for high-speed communication in space is on the way promising 200 Gigabits per second (Gbps) data transmission. The intent is to replace existing radio frequency (RF) systems that spacefaring nations have used since the dawn of the Space Age.

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Climate Change And Mental Health: Both Are Getting Worse

Eco-anxiety is a psychological response to current climate change and the threat of future changes to the environment. Other terms used to describe this mental state include eco-distress, climate anxiety and climate grief.

How Close Are We To A One-And-Done Vaccine For COVID-19 And Other Viruses?

University of California Riverside is using RNAi in a different vaccine strategy to find common characteristics in all viruses that can be used as a marker for the body's immune system to kill and create memory immunity.

Why Am I Left-Handed? Blame Tubulin Proteins for This Asymmetric Brain Twist

What determines whether you are born left-hand or right-hand dominant? An article appearing on April 2, 2024, in Nature Communications, describes a study by neuroscientists at MSH Medical School Hamburg in Germany that identified the genetic origins of handedness in humans implicating a specific group of proteins called tubulins.

Plastic Everywhere and What It Means to Humans and Life on the Planet

Microplastics today are everywhere. We are finding them in the deepest parts of the ocean and at the top of Mount Everest. It should be no wonder, therefore, that microplastics have invaded us.

Conversations With AI: Digital Avatars Give The Speechless The Ability To Speak

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco are using deep-learning AI and captured brainwaves to allow locked-in test subjects to talk using an avatar while wearing a neuroprosthetic device.

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