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Can Bacteria Solve Our Plastic Pollution Problem?
About 360 Million years ago, a toxic material that could not easily be broken down arose on planet Earth. The stuff would persist for thousands of years, amassing on land (and especially in forests) in daunting piles. These mounds stuck around for millions of years, so long that a heap of them fossilized. Today, humans dig up these deposits to burn as fossil fuel.
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The world is addicted to natural gas. Fossil fuel companies are lobbying hard to keep it that way
Imagine a world entirely free of fossil fuels. That's no longer such an abstract concept, as most of the everyday things we do can be powered by electricity -- driving a car, heating a home, charging a phone or computer -- and all that energy could come from sources like the wind, the sun and the natural movement of water.
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Kids Could Soon Have Multiple Biological Parents, Thanks to Gene Editing: Amy Webb
We have grown up having two biological parents. That’s how we know science works. However, things are likely to change in the future, and we will soon have our minds blown. The prospects of gene-editing technology will likely make it possible for the next generations to have more than two biological parents.
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How Fast-Growing Algae Could Enhance Growth of Food Crops
A team including Professor Niall Mangan and researchers from Princeton University used computer modeling to identify the necessary features to support enhanced carbon fixation by an organelle called the pyrenoid, found in green algae, providing a blueprint for engineering this structure into crop plants.
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Carbon Capture Won’t Work, But It Will Funnel Billions to Corporations
Carbon capture is having a moment, and it’s not hard to see why: As Texas Monthly reports, “the worldwide carbon-capture market is expected to grow from about $2 billion this year to about $7 billion in 2028.” Last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law devotes billions to advancing the technology, and the new Senator Joe Manchin-approved climate compromise bill would do more to bolster the industry.
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Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re Inching Toward It
The scientists who study solar geoengineering don’t want anyone to try it. But climate inaction is making it more likely. If we decide to “solar geoengineer” the Earth—to spray highly reflective particles of a material, such as sulfur, into the stratosphere in order to deflect sunlight and so cool the planet—it will be the second most expansive project that humans have ever undertaken.
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Manhattan-sized space habitats possible by creating artificial gravity
Massive asteroids could one day be home to future space colonizers. That's because a team of scientists from the University of Rochester published, what they call, a "wildly theoretical paper" outlining how we could one day use asteroids as massive city-sized space habitats.
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