Tie-dyeing cotton fabric with acorn and rust solutions turns it brown, orange, blue, and black. Credit: Adapted from Journal of Chemical Education 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00086…
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According to a new study, we need to transform the global food system in order to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “Just shrinking the size…
Team collaborates on assembling and testing “rock star” system 4,100 feet underground A team of scientists has assembled a first-of-its-kind system to help them understand…
Yogesh Surendranath and his team are bringing powerful techniques of electrochemistry to bear on the problem of designing catalysts for sustainable fuels. One challenge in…
Calving front of the Upsala Glacier in Argentina. This glacier has been thinning and retreating at a rapid rate during the last decades — from…
Selective breeding sustainably protects honey bees from Varroa mite. A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the…
Eating wild-caught fish instead of using it as feed in salmon farming would allow nearly four million tonnes of fish to be left in the…
This diagram shows a circular food system fueled by insects-as-food-and-feed production and waste. Credit: Barrágan-Fonseca et al. Marcel Dicke already knew that insects are an…
Carolina chemists develop a way to modify common polymers used in grocery bags, water and soda bottles and packaging to make it easier — and…
A new woody composite, engineered by a team at MIT, is tough as bone and hard as aluminum, and it could pave way for naturally-derived…
The Sustainability Hub at the University of Plymouth has been retrofitted with an exterior living wall façade, comprised of a flexible felt fabric sheet system…
One of the end-products the UD researchers and colleagues are investigating is the creation of bio-resins for 3D printing. Credit: Photo courtesy of Paul Pranda…
Proposed facility design for solar-powered zero-carbon emission hydrogen production. Credit: KyotoU/Shutaro Takeda In the global race to curb climate change and reduce carbon emissions, hydrogen…
Choosing a turkey burger instead of a beef burger could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water-use impact. Americans who eat beef could slash their diet’s…
Pictured are rare earth oxides of neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium – all critical components for magnets – that have been processed with sulfidation technology. The…
Detail from material research at Linköping University. Credit: Magnus Bergström, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Six Swedish universities have united in a major initiative focused…
Penn State engineers received a National Science Foundation grant to recover rare earth elements from phosphogypsum, a fertilizer byproduct stored indefinitely in open dumps and…
NASA is expanding research to lead the nation to a sustainable, net-zero carbon emissions aviation future. Credit: Vehicle image created by Scott Anders, Rich Wahls…
Most consumers want to make food purchases that are smart for their wallets, their health, and the environment. And while switching to a vegetarian or…
SIMEC Atlantis Energy’s AR1500 turbine being installed at MeyGen, North Scotland. Credit: SIMEC Atlantis Energy Tidal stream power has the potential to deliver 11% of…