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.
A novel Swiss invention, the Astra Bridge, is a modular road that can sit above a roadway under construction. It allows for safe construction and repair of roads and intersections without impeding traffic flow.
Will 3D printers change the way we manufacture things in general? The University of Maine has invented a supersized 3D printer that uses sawmill waste to create biomaterial inks for building homes and other structures.
XPrize Healthspan is aimed at living healthier lives with competing teams challenged to develop methodologies and therapeutics that can extend life by restoring muscle, cognition, and immune function. The minimum target is extending our healthy lives by 10 years. The maximum is 20.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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