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Designers are imagining a future where bacteria powers both clothing and cement—and their ideas are coming to a shop near you.

Yes, you really can climb a building by jumping back and forth between two opposing walls. Thank you, Isaac Newton.

Solar is becoming a major player in electricity generation and scientists are trying to boost its efficiency still further.

Polypropylene and polyethylene can be broken down simultaneously.

Tricks from the oil industry have produced a hot-rocks breakthrough

There’s more to global warming than just carbon dioxide.

Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

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Try one of the new courses added each month on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link ➜ https://brilliant.org/sabine. Nuclear power is one of the most promising ways to create a clean, cheap, and consistent flow of electricity. Unfortunately, it also produces radioactive waste, which can stick around for…a very long time. However, that waste issue might just be changing thanks to a process called transmutation. A Swiss company just got approval for the first accelerator-driven nuclear reactor that can do transmutation. How does this work? Let’s take a look. 🤓 Check out my new quiz app ➜ http://quizwithit.com/ 💌 Support me on Donorbox ➜ https://donorbox.org/swtg 📝 Transcripts and written news on Substack ➜ https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ 👉 Transcript with links to references on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/Sabine 📩 Free weekly science newsletter ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ 👂 Audio only podcast ➜ https://open.spotify.com/show/0MkNfXlKnMPEUMEeKQYmYC 🔗 Join this channel to get access to perks ➜ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw/join 🖼️ On instagram ➜ https://www.instagram.com/sciencewtg/ #science #sciencenews #nuclear

Stronger winds, bouts of extreme low temperature, and higher humidity pose difficult but surmountable challenges for heat pumps.

When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.

Astronauts' muscles atrophy in space, but we can identify the genes involved.

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a "smart soil" that can keep plants better hydrated and provide a controlled release of nutrients. As reported by New Atlas, tests found that it "drastically improved crop growth while using far less water." From the report: The soil get...

When we think of nuclear safety, two accidents often come to mind: Chernobyl and Fukushima. What was the death toll and impact of these disasters?

Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation.

Longtime Slashdot reader Baron_Yam shares a report from Phys.Org, with the caption: "It's not sequestration, but it is a closed carbon loop and can store energy from renewable sources to be released when they are not collecting energy." From the report: Carbon in the atmosphere is a major driver of...

Less than half of Brits say that nuclear is a low-carbon source of energy.

There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.

"We're pretty much seeing everything we had hoped for, and that's always good news.”

Physicists call the dark energy that drives the universe “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years.

Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills.

The majority of the matter in our Universe isn't made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?

Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here's what would happen if you traveled forever.

There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

Study tracks the past costs of climate events and projects them into the future.

Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil.

Solar and wind produce less waste than coal; but they can reduce waste even further

There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?