Tap Water Produces a Protective Shield Against Microplastics, Scientists Discover

Tap water produces a natural protective shield against harmful microplastics, which can help prevent household products from releasing them. That’s according to a team of scientists from AMBER, the SFI Centre for Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research, Trinity, and University College Dublin. The research from Ireland reveals that tap water contains trace elements and minerals, which […]

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Professor studies clues to climate change from outer space – ISRAEL21c

“We are not able to say that the contribution of man to global warming is exactly this or that. If we had that data in our hands, all the countries of the world would more likely reach a consensus about…

This is What it Looks Like When a Black Hole Snacks on a Star

While black holes and toddlers don’t seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters, generating ample evidence that a meal has taken place. But whereas one might leave behind droppings of pasta or splatters of yogurt, the other creates an aftermath of mind-boggling proportions. When a […]

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Have We Detected Dark Energy? Cambridge Scientists Say It’s a Possibility

Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below Italy’s Apennine Mountains. A new study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and reported in the journal Physical Review D, suggests that some unexplained results from the XENON1T experiment in Italy […]

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America’s beef with climate change: How we can change the food industry and save the planet – The Hill

The American Century was driven by scientific progress that led to Apollo 11. And today we need no less remarkable achievements from technologists to avoid a climate catastrophe. The Manhattan Project only inaugurated man’s age, Anthropocene. The dawn of America’s golden…

America’s beef with climate change: How we can revolutionize the food industry and save the planet | TheHill – The Hill

The American Century was driven by scientific progress that led to Apollo 11. And today we need no less remarkable achievements from technologists to avoid a climate catastrophe. The Manhattan Project only inaugurated man’s age, Anthropocene. The dawn of America’s golden…

Nuclear fusion ignition: Big laboratory breakthrough

Nuclear fusion ignition was triggered in a lab for the first time, and it could lead the way to clean energy and insights into the Big Bang.

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Biden’s America Last Energy Policy Is A Disaster

The first year of Joe Biden’s presidency has so far been an unmitigated disaster for the American energy sector. Embracing Green New Deal-style environmental policies, President Biden’s approach to domestic-energy production cripples hard-working Americans while, at the same time, increasing…

Predicting solar storms to protect Earth

Predicting solar storms isn’t easy. We’re still a long way from forecasting space weather events days in advance. But we’re getting closer.

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New odds on asteroid Bennu. Will it strike Earth?

At a press conference August 11, 2021, planetary scientists released new odds on asteroid Bennu and its potential to strike Earth.

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