Networks of pipes and heat exchangers can transfer excess heat from buildings into nearby bodies of water — but as the world warms, the cooling potential of some water courses is now diminishing, Wired reports. Paris’s district cooling network, which pipes Seine river water to cool 800 buildings including the Read more…
A first-of-its-kind global research expedition has extracted freshwater samples from beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor off Cape Cod, documenting a massive aquifer stretching from New Jersey to Maine. The three-month Expedition 501, funded at $25 million by the National Science Foundation and European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling, drilled up Read more…
Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests. Exposure to the airborne particles causes proteins in the brain to misfold into the clumps, which are hallmarks of Lewy Read more…
The United States is on the precipice of a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks. The math is straightforward. Population growth has two sources: natural increase (births minus deaths) and net immigration (arrivals Read more…
It’s broadly understood that electric vehicles are more environmentally friendly than their counterparts that burn only gasoline. And yes — that includes the impact of manufacturing batteries and generating power to charge them. But even then, such generalizations gloss over specifics, like which EVs are especially eco-friendly, not to mention Read more…
Ned’s shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells. It’s a one in 40,000 genetic condition among the common corno espersum… “I was quite breathless for a moment,” says Giselle Clarkson, an author, illustrator and self-described ‘observologist’ who found Ned while digging in her garden in Read more…
They offer a self-sustaining power solution for marine regions, pioneering use in wave energy harvesting in 2014″. Ten years later, researchers have developed several structures for these “triboelectric nanogenerators” (TENGs) to “facilitate their commercial deployment.” But there’s a lack of “comprehensive summaries and performance evaluations. So the review “distills a Read more…