Source: foodtank.com Published: May 3, 2017 At Food Tank, we are constantly amazed by the variety of ideas, initiatives, businesses, and research put forth by talented individuals making waves in the food and agriculture sectors. They come from varying backgrounds,...
Source: blogs.usda.gov Published: February 21, 2017 Posted by Jocelyn Benjamin, USDA-NRCS and Kate MacFarland, USDA National Agroforestry Center, on February 21, 2017 Much of the beauty in American agricultural landscapes is complemented by the trees in those...
Source: newatlas.com Published: February 5, 2016 There’s aerogel in that thar paper Shutterstock By Ben Coxworth Known as “frozen smoke” because of their milky translucent appearance, aerogels are among the world’s lightest solid materials. Consisting of 99.8...
Source: ecodyst.com Published: July 16, 2016 STANFORD UNI Rotary evaporators (“rotavaps”) have for decades been staples in labs and industries performing chemistry, including labs in the chemical, environmental, materials, life science, and forensics industries. Key...
Source: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au Published: May 2, 2017 By Gary Tippet, University of Melbourne Water is life, the world’s most precious resource. Yet across rural Australia, irrigation systems covering an estimated 2.5 million hectares of land are in desperate need of...
Source: qz.com Published: May 1, 2017 More than just a fruit. Rajesh Dangi/Wikimedia By Manu Balachandran A species of berries indigenous to south Asia may have what it takes to make solar panels far less expensive than they are now. It may even provide a lasting...
Source: odditycentral.com Published: April 6, 2017 By Spooky Scientists in Germany recently turned on the “world’s largest artificial sun” a device made up of 149 Xenon short-arc lamps that can create about 10,000 times the amount of solar radiation we get on Earth....
Source: treehugger.com Published: April 27, 2017 Video screen capture Nat Geo By Melissa Breyer Fifty years ago, the wildly inspiring David Bamberger bought the worst land he could find with the aim of bringing it back to thriving life. Although David Bamberger was...
Source: mnn.com Published: April 27, 2017 Device works in a similar way to how plants convert carbon dioxide and sunlight into food (Photo: Bernard Wilchusky/UCF) By Bryan Nelson University of Central Florida chemistry professor Fernando Uribe-Romo has finally...