Mobile weather labs map toll of extreme heat in scorching US cities
[ad_1] Researchers have been using weather balloons and other technology to map heat in Arizona Meghan Finnerty/Arizona State University For the past month, two trucks
Crushed rocks and fertiliser switches can cut nitrous oxide from farms
[ad_1] Spreading rock dust on fields can sequester carbon and reduce nitrous oxide emissions SO-Photography/Alamy Stock Photo Spreading crushed basalt on cropland and using special
Giant dome filled with CO2 could store excess power from renewables
[ad_1] Italian firm Energy Dome is building a “CO2 battery” in Sardinia that will store excess power from renewables and release it back to the
How tiny black holes would behave inside the sun, Earth – and us
[ad_1] Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half
The secret ingredient shaping your microbiome and your health
[ad_1] Withdrawn and anxious, the mice in John Cryan’s lab were behaving like you or I might if we had experienced workplace bullying and thought
When did human ancestors start walking on two legs?
[ad_1] Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether Sahelanthropus, a hominin that lived about 7 million years ago, was one of the first
Artificial flavours released by cooking aim to improve lab-grown meat
[ad_1] Cultured meat, with added flavour Yonsei University Lab-grown meat could get a flavour boost thanks to aromatic chemicals that activate when cooked, releasing a
‘Butter’ made from CO2 could pave the way for food without farming
[ad_1] Savor’s synthetic butter Savor A new type of dietary fat that doesn’t require animals or large areas of land to produce could soon be
Google creates self-replicating life from digital ‘primordial soup’
[ad_1] Snippets of self-replicating code compete for space in a virtual environment Google A self-replicating form of artificial life has arisen from a digital “primordial
Self-cooling artificial grass could help cities handle extreme weather
[ad_1] Self-cooling artificial turf was tested against ordinary fake grass at a test site in Amsterdam Joris Voeten An artificial sports pitch that absorbs rainwater