This will really expand your mind. Casey Handmer makes the case that with the solar costs declining 30% with every doubling of production, an average doubling time of 3 years, and a little more time, we’ll soon see solar energy […]
A year after Google’s DeepMind team released AlphaFold, an AI system that can determine the shape of any protein from its sequence, comes this: “[W]e’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand […]
Compared to the 1980s, Americans are eating more fresh fruit and fresh veggies and many products (including cars) are more affordable. “I went through all 1,566 pages of the 1980 Sears catalog to find items I could easily compare with […]
Another one of many examples of the coming end of dinosaur-based plastics. Almost every pallet gets wrapped with plastic before shipping to keep its contents secure. That plastic is one-time-use and boy is it used often. Australian company Great Wrap is […]
It’s great! “The 18-year-old high school student used Usain Bolt and a pick-up truck in order to explain the critical physics concept.” | learn more
Inside this article you’ll learn how carbon dating works. “1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.” | learn more
Prometheus Fuels Founder and CEO: “But as often happens with breakthroughs of this magnitude, our process has … raised a lot of questions: How is it possible that your e-fuels are so much cheaper than everyone else’s? And if you […]
“I’m a civil engineer. Landfills get a bad rap because they seem horrible, but modern landfill technology is really pretty amazing. … And anything that goes into the landfill does not get into the ocean.” | learn more
“Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.“ | learn more
“The U.S. needs more moonshot projects like SpaceX—both literally and figuratively. The federal government can play an important role as a buyer-of-first-resort in industries that offer public goods.” | learn more