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8 strong, herbal antibiotics to help beat infection
Antibiotics are some of the most commonly prescribed medications, sometimes over-prescribed for conditions such as sore throats or bronchitis, which are usually viral and cannot be treated with antibiotics. If they’re not doing much to help a condition, then they’re only providing the side Read More...
How carbon dioxide from the air can boost batteries
Researchers employ a novel electrochemical process to make carbon nanotubes from ambient carbon dioxide and use them to boost battery performance. by Mike Orcutt March 7, 2016 Sponsored by There is little economic incentive to capture carbon dioxide from power-plant exhaust or suck it directly from Read More...
You’ll eat bugs. These investors are betting millions on it
Greg Sewitz and Gabi Lewis are used to people laughing at them. Three years ago the two college roommates ordered two boxes of live crickets off the Internet, the sort you might feed your pet iguana. They promptly shoved the two shoebox-sized containers of insects into the freezer. Later, they Read More...
The kickstarter kings who taught the world to crowdfund
One cold February night in 2013, Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost ducked into a Brooklyn bar for a drink and some R&D. The two friends and designers, co-owners of a firm called Studio Neat, had both gotten into mixology recently. They were wondering what their in-home bars might be missing. Like so Read More...
New tech could give coal a scrubbing until renewables are ready
No matter how you feel about coal, you can’t deny that it is very dirty stuff. Nor can you argue that our electrified society is anywhere near ready to run without it. Until renewables scale up and become storable—available after sunset and between breezes, in other words—coal Read More...
Solar energy pioneer Monica Oliphant on charting her own path in science
It was 1973 and Monica Oliphant, a recently widowed mother of two, was washing the dishes one night when she first heard about the potential for solar energy. “[It was] at the time of the Arab oil crisis, and I heard on the radio someone saying, if we had solar energy, we wouldn’t have Read More...
Ocean currents: Reliable clean energy beneath sea level
Oceans move slowly—on average 1-1.5 m/s. However, water is over 800 times denser than air, meaning that even slow ocean currents are comparable to strong winds. And winds are unpredictable whereas as oceans move constant in both direction and speed. A new Japanese design for a marine turbine is Read More...
A cheap soap to help poor Africans prevent catching malaria
Malaria is still the greatest killer in the world. According to a 2014 report by the World Health Organization, 90 percent of the almost 600,000 people who died from malaria in 2013 lived in Africa. Most were children. Many of their families cannot afford conventional mosquito repellants and Read More...
Whole Foods and startups see potential in ‘ugly foods’
Produce is supposed to be perfect. Giant watermelons ripen on the field but won’t make it to market—too big to fit in the fridge. The same fate befalls curvy cucumbers or apples and tomatoes that exceed the width of a burger bun. Recently European supermarkets have adopted the ugly foods Read More...
The British frontrunner of feminism may get her statue at last
One painful reminder of the wrongs of history is presented by the statues in the squares of cities around the globe. Judging by thousands and thousands of statues across the world, humans are a species made up almost entirely of males. Of the 11 memorials in Parliament Square, London, for instance, Read More...