The IndyCar racing series is switching to an entirely renewable fuel next year. On Friday, ahead of Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 race, IndyCar announced that starting next year, the race cars will be powered by a new, second-generation renewable ethanol race fuel developed by Shell. The manufacturing process for IndyCar’s ethanol Read more…
In response to pesticides, many cockroach females have lost their taste for sweet stuff, which changes how they make the next generation of insects. When a male cockroach wants to mate with a female cockroach very much, he will scoot his butt toward her, open his wings and offer her Read more…
The building of the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat has been announced, with the potential to supply tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. Experts said the move could be a “gamechanger” for the nascent industry. The US company Good Meat said the bioreactors would grow more than Read more…
Starting this fall with its locations in California, the Swedish furniture giant Ikea will sell the means to power your Starkvind (that’s an air purifier) and Stjarnstatus (that’s a fridge) by adding solar panels to the company’s offerings. Thankfully, assembly will be handled by the professionals. To bring photovoltaics — Read more…
The United States said on Monday that it would supply Romania with a training simulator in preparation for building a new type of nuclear power generating plant in the country. If an agreement on moving ahead with a power station is reached, Romania could become the first country in Europe, Read more…
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have now demonstrated a low-cost gel film that can pull many liters of water per day out of even very dry air. The gel is made up of two main ingredients that are cheap and common — cellulose, which comes from the Read more…
Scientists have created genetically edited tomatoes, each containing as much provitamin D3 — the precursor to vitamin D — as two eggs or a tablespoon of tuna. Outdoor field trials of the tomatoes are expected to begin in the UK next month, and if successful, could provide an important new Read more…