📈 Human Progress
🌱 Artificial photosynthesis – grow food without sunlight
The University of California, Riverside, writes on their website about a study done in collaboration with the University of Delaware, published in Nature Food. In a two-step process, the study converted carbon dioxide, water, and electricity into acetate, one of the...
🥤 Plastic waste on the beaches of Australia has decreased by almost a third
Researchers at the Australian agency Csiro have investigated how various measures can reduce the amount of plastic waste on Australia's beaches. It turns out that with relatively simple local measures it is possible to reduce plastic waste significantly. By...
📚 New York libraries are giving away 500,000 books
New York Public Libraries (NYPL) are giving away 500 000 books this summer in order to keep kids engaged in reading. Their idea is that the kids are to keep them forever: “a lifelong love of reading—and your own home library—begin with choosing...
🐢 Giant tortoise extinct for 100 years is actually alive
For over a century, scientists have believed the Fernandina Giant Tortoise – Chelonoidis phantasticus – species to be extinct due to regular volcanic eruptions on their native island – the Fernandina isle in the Galápagos.In 2017,...
