How should you wash your clothes to be most eco friendly? Turns out it’s on cold water in quick cycles. This not only is better for the environment in a bunch of ways but it helps your clothing last longer. And considering most fashion is fast fashion these days, those clothes need all the help they can get.
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Calls to poison control for contact with cleaning products have sky rocketed in the last few months. So good news, it seems people are cleaning but the bad news is they don’t appear to know how to do it safely.
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The key to a more sustainable future isn’t just in producing less waste, it’s finding ways to use the waste so that we do create, preferably by transforming it into new products that we can utilize. Engineers have discovered a way to give new life to waste carbon dioxide.
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Our online lives are pretty dominated by the clickbait. We know it but what can you do? It’s everywhere! And that’s a problem. It doesn’t have to be that way though, behavioral scientists want to design a new, more honest internet.
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News around Covid-19 seems to change from week to week and one of those topics is mask. Should you wear them or not? The answer is yes! Research has shown that masks help to stop the spread of the virus and lower your chances of getting infected.
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Plants are really good at getting energy from the sun. It’s kind of their whole thing. Although we can sort of copy the process, photosynthesis hasn’t been seen as a viable source of energy because it cannot convert green light making it not a candidate for technical applications but that may be changing as a research team has been successful in creating a process that fills this gap.
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The idea of fabricated organs is the stuff of science fiction. We’ve all seen movies and TV shows where they grow a new organ in a lab before they take it from its vat and drop it into the waiting patient. This might be a reality before you know it. Scientists have grown a mini-liver and implanted it into rats. Neat.
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It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, you need water to live. This is true for every living being on the planet for the most part. If the climate crisis is not slowed down, then more people will be living under “water stress” and that’s very bad news.
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Working at home is going to be the new normal for many people. After not having offices for a months, many people are just. . . staying in their living rooms. It’s great. Snack when you want on what you want, wear what you want, there’s no downside. If you’re working off Firefox, here’s a list of cool browser extensions to make things better.
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Sitting outside is a nice way to enjoy the weather. Take a book, chat with friends and family, or just watch the clouds. Skip the plastic lawn chairs though and grow your own with Terra, the lawn furniture you grow right from your lawn.
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Seasonal allergies getting you down? Seem like you’re dealing with them longer than you did in past years? Well it’s not in your head. Allergy season really is lasting longer and getting worse thanks to the climate crisis.
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The dust bowl was a huge event in America that changed the country forever. The original was caused by natural occurring droughts and was considered a once a century event. The climate crisis could make this rare occurrence more common.
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Getting a flat tire is really awful. Finding out one of your wheels has given up the ghost can make you late or even worse, leave you totally stranded. Would be great if you could slap a band aid on it and go! Well thanks to some new research, that might be a reality. And bonus, it can be achieved with recycled materials.
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There’s been a new type of fungi discovered but not by some scientists tramping through the woods or anything like. This one was discovered on Twitter. The social media site for sending off super short missives about your thoughts and lives has now led to the discovery of a new species.
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Air pollution is a big issue in today’s world and it’s greatly agreed upon that we need much less of it. Scientists have found a new way to fight the issue with better filters designed with the help of machine learning.
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