The super-cool materials that send heat to space
Nature – Paints, plastics and even wood can be engineered to stay cool in direct sunlight — but their role in displacing power-hungry air conditioners remains unclear.
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How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Killing Plastic Recycling
HuffPost – Plastic trash has overwhelmed America. Fossil fuel companies are about to make it worse.
Math Reveals the Secrets of Cells’ Feedback Circuitry
Quanta – Maintaining perfect stability through negative feedback is a basic element of electrical circuitry, but it’s been a mystery how cells could do it — until now.
What Grocery Stores Won’t Tell You About Plastic
HuffPost – Huge companies like Walmart could slash single-use plastics — if they really wanted to.
How Postwar Ads Got Us Hooked On ‘Disposable’ Single-Use Plastic
HuffPost – After World War II, brands encouraged a throwaway culture that’s now drowning the world in trash.
The Surprising Reason Your Clothes Are A Huge Source Of Ocean Pollution
HuffPost – Most clothing contains synthetic materials that shed plastic fibers.
Global Initiative Mines Retired Hard Disk Drives for Materials and Magnets
IEEE Spectrum – Every year in the United States, roughly 20 million hard drives are retired from data centers.
New Memory Device Can Take the Heat
IEEE Spectrum – A new memory device based on gallium nitride can operate at 300 degrees Celsius.
Turning Organic Waste into Hydrogen
ACS Central Science – Researchers are using bacteria to transform various types of waste into a clean-burning fuel.
Tainted water: the scientists tracing thousands of fluorinated chemicals in our environment
Nature – Researchers are struggling to assess the dangers of nondegradable compounds used in clothes, foams and food wrappings.