Earth and Energy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Coral reefs take millennia to mature and only years to destroy, now technology is coming to their rescue. Even…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bleaching and new invasive species like the Crown of Thorns wreak havoc on the Barrier Reef, but technology is helping conservationists…
Countries are increasingly managing to meet all of their energy requirements using renewable energy Hot on the heels of Costa Rica announcing that their state…
Little heard S-waves are the key to seeing inside our planet Small, intense storms known as “weather bombs” may trigger rare tremors deep within the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The Pipe is a finalist in the 2016 Land Art Generator Initiative, a competition to combine clean energy production with public art….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This might complicate our which came first question… There have been five mass extinction events since the Earth formed,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When are killer robots a good thing? When they’re saving the Earth. Where there are robots there’s always inevitably…
Tokomak Energy aims to build mini-nuclear reactors and announces target of producing electricity by 2025 and feeding power into the grid by 2030 Nuclear fusion…
In an age of pen and paper one man stood out, and he’s just surprised us again The advantage of hosting your own blog or magazine is…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For the first time ever a city has selected to build an energy storage device over a conventional power station….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to turn plants into electric circuits could pave the way for a whole variety of biologically inspired electronics….
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A revolution in the making, the Bionic Leaf ushers in a new era of biomanufacturing. Harvard University has created a…
