3D-Printed Mushroom Brained Robot Detects Harmful Gases

Life Guardian is a cyborg that integrates a 3D printed mechanical part and a living part: a mushroom. The biological part determines and modifies...

Scientists Turn Atmospheric CO2 into Coal Flakes

The need to transition to clean energy production free from fossil fuels, is becoming more and more pressing as climate change is impacting our...

Researchers Capture Carbon Dioxide and Turn it Back to Coal

Researchers discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide back into coal. Carbon capture as a mean for mitigation of climate change, is quite a hot...

Solomon Islands’ Coral Ecosystems Threatened by Oil Spill and Extensive Flooding

The world's largest raised coral atoll, in Solomon islands, is faced with an ecological disaster since February 4th, when the ship MV Solomon Trader...

Study: Coal kills more Americans than it Employs

A new study finds that the coal industry kills more Americans than it employs. Joshua Pearce led the study and is the Richard Witte Endowed...

A concerning lack of bugs

A couple of years ago, an article in the Science magazine reported the alarming cleanliness of car windshields—cleanliness not as in lack of dust...

Microplastics Found in Essential Sources of Drinking Water

Microplastics are now found in essential drinking water sources. Plastic pollution is finally receiving the attention it needs. Scientists are carrying an increasing number of...

App to Support More Eco-Friendly Medicines

Chemical synthesis has its by-products, and the waste is not easy to handle. To assist chemists in finding less wasteful synthetic procedures, a group...

Life without single-use plastics: the case of San Pedro La Laguna

“You don’t need a straw for beer, so why use one for soda?” argues Victor Tuch Gonzales, municipal planning director in the Guatemalan town...

India Bans All Single-Use Plastics From Airports

India introduces a ban on all single-use plastics at 129 airports across the country. This is the first step to reaching the higher goal-...