In London, an invasive mussel species, known as the quagga mussel, is clogging the water pipes. Sometimes, it can cost many millions in removing such species. But what if you could turn the mussels into a product and use the income together with the outgoing profits?...
According to many, what Heart Aerospace does in its hangar at Säve Airport outside Gothenburg is impossible: to create an electric aircraft for commercial traffic.Despite the least exciting assignment, to help electrify aviation, the company works internally to...
Even though microplastics have not yet been proved to cause harm to the human body, scientists are working on a way of preventing us from ingesting them. In Colombia, design students have created a filter made out of moss to capture microplastics and pollutants...
Replacing plastic with an environmentally friendly alternative is very important. Now, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have developed a plant-based alternative for plastic – one which decomposes into sugar. “The plastic...
NDB, a company based in California, USA, claims to have found the solution for how to handle nuclear waste and how to have access to batteries that can cope with the increasing dependence on electricity in, among other things, means of transport, writes...
Researchers at The University of Queensland in Australia have discovered a species of larvae that can feed on polystyrene (styrofoam) plastic. When the larvae of the beetle Zophobas morio only got polystyrene to eat, they not only managed to survive but also gained...