Students Create Edible Tortilla Tape to Keep Your Wraps Wrapped
Messy burritos could be a thing of the past—thanks to a new edible food tape. Inspired by their own experiences with sloppy lunches, students at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University have created Tastee...
View ArticleProtein ‘Motors’ Can Swim Around Wounds to Kill Bacteria –And Deliver...
An engineer in Barcelona has been adapting silicon nanobots to deliver things like antibiotics to open wounds, and has even created little “motors” to push them around. It turns out this is much faster...
View ArticleScientists Discover Breakthrough Method of Making Advanced Electronics With H20
Water is the secret ingredient in a simple way to create key components for solar cells, X-ray detectors and other optoelectronics devices. The next generation of photovoltaics, semiconductors, and...
View ArticleEuropean Cities Are Turning Rooftops Into Community and Sustainability Hubs:...
Across Europe, intrepid artists, planners, and architects are transforming the flat, grey rooftops of the continent into lively community hubs. From public parks to art venues to rainwater catchments...
View ArticleHow ‘Frozen Zoos’ Are Helping Save Vanishing Species
Over the last two decades, a secret institution has gone largely uncredited with some fairly remarkably achievements in animal conservation. But as well as potentially offering the only chance for the...
View ArticleCheap Gel Packs Can Pull Many Liters of Water From Even Desert Air
More than a third of the world’s population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Now scientists have developed a solution that could help people in these areas access...
View ArticleElectric Cars Could Be Made With Plastic From Clunkers According to New Research
Electric cars could be made with plastic from old clunkers, according to new research. Bumpers, carpets, mats, seating, seals, and door casings have been turned into graphene, which is the world’s...
View ArticleRoads are Lasting Twice as Long Thanks to Recycled Tire Rubber
Rubber from used tyres acts like sunscreen for roads and halves the rate of sun damage when mixed with bitumen, new research has found. Engineers at RMIT University in Australia have discovered a...
View Article3D-Printed Ear is Made and Transplanted From Patient’s Living Cells
In a major advance in the field of biological 3D-printing, a firm has successfully transplanted a printed ear made from a patient’s own stem cells. Such a procedure has been theorized for over a...
View ArticleSustainable Wind Turbine Towers Being Made of Eco-Friendly Wood
New methods for joining together lumber is opening the door to a variety of construction projects long since closed off to wood—most recently wind turbines. A 330-foot (100-meter) prototype wooden wind...
View ArticleInnovative Italian Invents River Cleaner That Grabs Trash Using Water’s Current
An Italian firm has invented what seems to be the perfect tool for stopping plastic waste from reaching the ocean via a river. They had to check a lot of boxes. The device had to allow for boats to...
View ArticleHow Fog Nets Are Making Water Abundant in Arid Africa – And May Be Useful in...
During the Moroccan desert summertime drought, fog nets are being used to provide drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in remote mountain villages. Now villagers can irrigate agricultural...
View ArticleDesigner Turns Mussel Shells That Once Clogged London’s Water Pipes into...
Some designers in London are taking an invasive mussel species and turning it into beautiful tiling. Aside from preventing the mussel shells breaking down in landfills, the process creates a rigid...
View ArticleThis Gorgeous Leather is Made From the Hide of an Invasive Predatory Fish
An exotic aquarium staple, the spectacular lionfish is unfortunately an invasive species that spells catastrophe for Atlantic and Caribbean ecosystems it happens upon. Fortunately for these seas,...
View ArticleFloating Drones Are Swallowing Tons of Plastic Waste Before it Reaches Ocean
From Chennai to Trentino alto Adige to Baltimore, inventors are churning out methods of stopping plastic pollution from entering the ocean by picking it out of riverways. They come in different shapes...
View ArticleNew Type of Plastic Made Directly From Organic Plant Waste Could Be the...
A new type of plastic made directly from organic plant waste has been created by scientists. The new material is easy to make and could be used in everything from packaging and textiles to medicine and...
View ArticleTunisians Make Generator That Produces Drinking Water From Thin Air – 25...
A tech start-up has developed a product that allows safe drinking water to be refined from vapor in the air. Kumulus designed and produced the product, which is able to ‘produce 20 to 30 liters of...
View ArticleArtificial Photosynthesis Can Produce More Food in the Dark Than With Sunshine
Photosynthesis has evolved in plants for millions of years to turn water, carbon dioxide, and the energy from sunlight into plant biomass and the foods we eat. This process, however, is very...
View ArticleUK’s Largest Carbon Capture Project Will Turn 40,000 Tons of CO2 into Baking...
Tata Chemicals Europe today opened the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, signaling a key milestone in the race to meet the UK’s, and the world’s, net zero targets. The...
View ArticleRevolutionary Filter Uses Moss to Capture Pollutants And Microplastics Before...
Design students in Colombia have harnessed the porousness of moss to design a water filter that can trap microplastics. Over the two-month product life of the filter, it can trap 80 grams of...
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