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.
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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.
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.
Big Business Wants You To Think It’s Fixing The Plastic Crisis. Don’t Buy It.
HuffPost – Here’s what corporations don’t want you to know.
Meet The Men Who Ditched Well Paid Jobs In Big Energy To Tackle Climate Change
HuffPost – Lition Energy uses blockchain to connect consumers directly with renewable power plants.
The Kilogram is Dead. Long Live the Kilogram!
New York Times – After a vote (and a century of research), the standard measure for mass is redefined, and the long reign of Le Grand K is ended.