By Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge
General Motors needs a lot of cathode active materials (CAM) if it’s to reach its goal of making enough electric vehicles to become a completely carbon neutral company by 2040. How much is enough? How about 950,000 tons of the stuff. Continue reading GM just secured enough cathode material for 5 million electric vehicles
By BET
Former Empire actor and red carpet scientist Terrence Howard is currently visiting Uganda as part of a government effort to draw investors from the African diaspora to the nation. He is claiming he has what it needs to change the world. Continue reading Terrence Howard Claims He Invented ‘New Hydrogen Technology’ To Defend Uganda
By Alliah Czarielle, Hemophilia News Today
Climate change has been a hot topic in our circles lately. We feel it very much in the Philippines, where hot summers in the months of April and May have quickly turned into a season of strong typhoons and dangerous floods. Recently, a major typhoon hit the province of Leyte, causing a tragic landslide. Continue reading Looking at Environmental Protection Through the Lens of Disability
By Apple
Continue reading Apple expands the use of recycled materials across its products
By , Clean Technica
SpaceX founder Elon Musk took stage on Thursday night to deliver new information about the company’s Mars rocket, Starship. For the first time since 2019, SpaceX updated the public on Starship development in an official event. The presentation was notably light on new information, but rather served as an aggregate of progress made over the past two years. Continue reading The Key Takeaways From The SpaceX Starship Event
By Katie Hunt, CNN
Flowers discovered perfectly preserved in globs of amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs, suggesting that some flowering plants in South Africa today have remained unchanged for 99 million years, a new study reveals. Continue reading 99 million-year-old flowers found perfectly preserved in amber bloomed at the feet of dinosaurs
By DAVID NIELD, Science Alert
For most of life on Earth, oxygen is essential, and sunlight is usually needed to produce that oxygen. But in an exciting twist, researchers have caught a common, ocean-dwelling microbe breaking all the rules. Continue reading Microbes in The Ocean Depths Can Make Oxygen Without Sun. This Discovery Could Be Huge
By Sofie Bates, SciTech Daily
New observations from research aircraft indicate that the Southern Ocean absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases, confirming that it is a strong carbon sink and an important buffer for the effects of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading Study Confirms Southern Ocean Is Absorbing Carbon – Important Buffer for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN
Every day, thousands of fishing boats around the world drag huge weighted nets across the seafloor, ensnaring everything in their wake and destroying marine habitats. Continue reading The woman saving seahorses from ‘annihilation fishing’
By Molly Taft, Gizmodo
The world dumps some 17.6 billion pounds (8 billion kilograms) of plastic into the ocean every year—and now, you can check out how all that trash moves around. NASA released an animation showing shifting plastic concentrations in the world’s oceans over an 18-month period, the first research of its kind to map plastics on such a global scale for such a long time. Continue reading Striking NASA Animation Reveals the Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic
