The ocean’s smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth’s thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon. However, a new review published in Science by an international team led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology […]
Late at night on 26 September 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida’s big bend. The physical damage was devastating and well-documented, but an additional, unseen potential impact lurked underfoot.This post was originally published on […]
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the world’s most abundant pollutants and a key driver of climate change. To mitigate its impact, researchers around the world are exploring ways to capture CO2 from the atmosphere […]
What makes a mineral critical? Put simply, critical minerals help create the essential everyday items we all use. But these minerals may not be easy to get.This post was originally published on this site.
A team of UC Riverside engineers has discovered why a key solid-state battery material stays remarkably cool during operation—a breakthrough that could help make the next generation of lithium batteries safer and more powerful.This post […]
According to Statistics Norway, an average of approximately 1,100 detached houses have been demolished each year in Norway over the course of the past decade. However, only 7% of the wood from these buildings was […]
Continental shelf seas—the shallow waters surrounding our coasts that provide most of the world’s seafood—are absorbing more carbon than they release, with the strength and direction of the prevailing wind proving a key control, new […]
With recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic voices have become increasingly prevalent in our everyday soundscape, raising the question: Can AI voices still be distinguished from human voices, and how attractive do they sound?This […]
Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our world’s weather systems it’s getting harder and more important to get right.This post was originally published on this […]
Living in paradise comes with a cost. For the second consecutive year, Santa Cruz has been named the most expensive county in California by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. As the housing crisis continues […]
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