What does man's carbon footprint into the atmosphere and the cement/concrete sidewalk beneath your feet have in common? A lot it seems, and a team of Researchers at UCLA have a plan to capture carbon from power plant smokestacks and use it to create a new building...
Environmental Research Advocates (ERAscience.org), Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and CNSI (California Nano Systems Institute), launched a revolutionary inner-city teaching program to support science education for underserved children. Perimeter...
Remember your mom telling you to make sure you chewed your food throughly? It's seems that mother did know best since it turns out that chewing can do much more then power your metabolism. Drs Aidin Delnavaz and Jeremie Voix, mechanical engineers at the Ecole de...
What does the accompanying image bring to mind? Layers of carved chocolate? How about a block of clay waiting to become a piece of art? Bet you didn't guess it's the future of 24 hour winter warmth thanks to the guys at MIT and a new exciting little molecule...
First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss big policy stories from the past month, including a proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration to increase the involvement of politicians in grantmaking. Next on the show, Science Senior Editor Michael Funk joins to discuss a trio of papers on […]
First up on the podcast, wrangling wolves in Europe. After near extermination in much of the continent, wolf numbers have surged up to about 20,000 individuals. Contributing Correspondent Gretchen Vogel joins podcast host Sarah Crespi to discuss the conflicts that have risen as the wolf population grows. Next on the show, Ph.D. student Carla Bassil […]
First up on the podcast, producer Kevin McLean talks with Staff Writer Paul Voosen about the latest on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC. Researchers have long been concerned that global warming could cause a collapse in the AMOC, which would trigger dramatic cooling in Northern Europe. But recent data and models suggest the […]
In mountain regions from the Andes to the Himalayas, Indigenous people see the retreat of glaciers as a sign that they have lost the favor of their gods or ancestors.Read more on E360 →
Despite years of opposition, a 900-mile crude oil pipeline through East Africa is about to be completed, and its environmental and social risks are coming into focus. Campaigners in Uganda and abroad are making a final push to halt the project before the oil starts to flow.Read more on E360 →