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https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic/
In a 2018 life-cycle assessment, Denmark’s ministry of environment and food agreed with previous similar studies, finding that classic plastic shopping bags have the least environmental impact.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/science/frogs-fungus-bd.html
the most deadly pathogen known to science.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computers-ibm-cern
Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption – if only someone could get them to work
https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/technology/2019/nuclear-goes-retro-much-greener-outlook
start-ups are developing a new kind of reactor that promises to be much safer and cleaner than current ones.
the three big advantages of molten salt reactors — no meltdown, no proliferation, burning up nuclear waste.
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the new 512GB card in the same line will sell for $199.99.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/asia/china-change-4-moon.html
landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in history
Eremets and his colleagues say they have observed lanthanum hydride (LaH10) superconducting at the sweltering temperature of 250 K, or –23 °C.
https://apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d
If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.
Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/21/first-ever-plane-with-no-moving-parts-takes-flight
The flight represents a breakthrough in “ionic wind” technology, which uses a powerful electric field to generate charged nitrogen ions, which are then expelled from the back of the aircraft, generating thrust.
The X-59 will cruise at a speed of about 940 mph and an altitude of 55,000 feet. Lockheed says it will create a sound about as loud as a car door closing, instead of a deafening sonic boom.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823
Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi
A regular shop-bought mushroom has been turned into an electricity generator in a process scientists hope will one day be used to power devices.
The researchers are still investigating how this all works.
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’
the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, military bases, nuclear weapons storage sites
A new study, published this week by Yinon Bar-On and others from the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel, provides a comprehensive estimate of how the Earth’s carbon stock is distributed among its inhabitants.
According to tests conducted by the Japanese government, some of the boars have shown levels of radioactive element cesium-137 that are 300 times higher than safety standards.
Officials have also expressed concern that returning residents may be attacked by the animals, some of which have settled comfortably in abandoned homes and have reportedly lost their shyness to humans.