Source: phys.org Published: November 10, 2016 Diamond-anvil cell. Credit: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences By Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Water and aqueous solutions can behave strangely under pressure. Experiments carried out at the GFZ...
Source: jappliedecologyblog.wordpress.com Published: November 9, 2016 In this post Nahuel Policelli discusses a recent paper by Timothy M. Bowles and colleagues ‘Ecological intensification and arbuscular mycorrhizas: a meta-analysis of tillage and cover crop effects‘...
Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Published: June 29, 1988 MIGUEL A. ALTIERI Associate Professor, Division of Biological Control, University of California, Berkeley LAURA C. MERRICK Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis,...
Source: phys.org Published: July 19, 2016 by Han Lin, Fresh Science Swinburne University researchers have invented a new, flexible energy-storage technology that could soon replace the batteries in our cars, phones and more. Han Lin’s new super battery (actually, a...
Source: onegreenplanet.org Published: June 23, 2017 Image source: gouravgola89/Pixabay By Aleksandra Pajda In light of the current plastic waste crisis, recycling and reusing this omnipresent, but threatening, material is one of the biggest tactics we can use to lower...
Source: powermag.com Published: October 22, 2015 By Aaron Larson The ETH spin-off company Climeworks AG has announced plans to construct and operate an industrial scale CO2 capture plant to be operational by mid-2016. The Oct. 21 announcement said the plant in Hinwil...
Source: civileats.com Published: June 28, 2017 West Oakland’s Brown Sugar Kitchen joined food-tech company BlueCart in a project to reduce food waste, although diner behavior remains the biggest culprit. By Sara Harrison In the homey dining room at West Oakland’s...
Source: technologyreview.com Published: June 6, 2016 by Peter Fairley Carbon dioxide emissions must decrease to nearly zero by 2040 if global warming by the end of this century is to be held to 2 °C. But we may well miss that target. A pilot plant started up last fall...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: June 26, 2017 Stefanie Spear Check out this great 360° virtual reality video by NowThis on the world’s largest indoor vertical farm, AeroFarms. Located in Newark, New Jersey, AeroFarms grows more than 2 million pounds of greens a year...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 27, 2017 Written by Lidija Grozdanic Could the buildings of the future be grown instead of built? Brunel University student Aleksi Vesaluoma has found a way to grow living structures using mushroom mycelium. Vesaluoma worked with...
