The just-ended COP28 climate summit called on nations to speed their efforts to pull excess carbon out of the air and rebalance the atmosphere. Engineers are using everything from catalytic processes to giant sucking machines to do it.
Tag: Science
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GENE DISCOVERY MAY HALT PARKINSON’S DISEASE BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR
Parkinson’s Disease, which affects as many as nine million people globally, including a million Americans, has been thought to originate when brain cells producing the biochemical dopamine die.
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PHARMA FOOD—BIOTECH ON YOUR PLATE
Lab-grown meat may one day represent 80 percent or more of the "meat" consumed worldwide,[1] a dramatic departure from the way humans have eaten for centuries.
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U.S. AUTHORIZES FIRST NEW NUCLEAR PLANT DESIGN IN 55 YEARS
For the first time since 1968, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted a permit to build a new kind of nuclear reactor, a sign that regulators are ready to be more imaginative in their deliberations as the need to move away from fossil fuels becomes more urgent.
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WHY OFFICIAL VITAMIN D INTAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GROSSLY INADEQUATE
Two studies published in November 2023 demonstrated that the current governmental dosing recommendations for vitamin D may not help you achieve optimal levels;[1] a third found a personalized approach to supplementation yielded better results in athletes than a one-size-fits-all approach.[2]
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TOP TREND 2023, GOING GREEN, LIKE IT OR NOT: U.S. AIR FORCE IS BUSY TESTING ALTERNATIVES TO FOSSIL FUELS
The U.S. military recognizes that dependence on fossil fuels can be a vulnerability, so it’s at work testing aircraft powered by hydrogen and even an electrofuel made by combining waste carbon with hydrogen extracted from water.
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PRINTED SKIN HEALS AS WELL AS THE REAL THING
In a breakthrough, researchers at Wake Forest University’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine have combined the six main types of skin cells with a hydrogel to bioprint skin that grafts over wounds and integrates with surrounding tissue as well as the real thing.
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IRANIAN HACKERS ATTACK U.S. WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS
The CyberAv3ngers, a group known to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been running cyberattacks on digital devices called programmable logic controllers that are common in U.S. municipal water and sewage processing systems as well as in equipment in energy, healthcare, and food and beverage manufacture, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed.
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VITAMIN B12 IS KEY FOR OPTIMAL TISSUE REGENERATION
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is required for healthy nerve function and the synthesis of red blood cells and DNA. B vitamins are also important for healthy immune function, which is your first line of defense against all diseases
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MOBILE BATTERY POD RECHARGES WITH A KITE
Kitepower, a spin-off from the Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology, is marketing something called The Hawk, a bank of batteries packed into a mobile shipping container and that is recharged by flying a kite.