The indigenous groups fighting against the quest for 'white gold' in South America ~enviro pollution.water Article 962 words 11 votes
Chromium is showing immense promise as a cheap, plentiful alternative to metals used in smartphone screens and solar cells ~science Article 433 words 11 votes
Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects ~science physics Article 848 words 9 votes
Niger has suspended the export of gold and uranium to France this Sunday with immediate effect ~news niger france Article 333 words 36 votes
California cement industry marks near-term progress on carbon neutrality goals ~enviro Article 585 words 11 votes
Medical researchers report that the workers who make quartz countertops are dying of lung disease at a young age ~health Article 883 words 31 votes
The Glass Age, Part 1: Flexible, Bendable Glass ~engineering Video 9:02, published Nov 19 2014 9 votes
The inventor of glitter, Henry Ruschmann, also helped develop the atomic bomb ~engineering Video 27:07, published Jun 30 2023 14 votes
Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it ~science Article 1123 words 56 votes
Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a pure element ~science physics Article 734 words 5 votes
Plastics have shaped nearly every aspect of society. Now what? ~enviro plastics.single use pollution Article 3552 words 22 votes
Harvard professor Avi Loeb has found fragments of a meteoroid that he believes could be from a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget ~space astronomy Article 630 words 33 votes
Dr. Angela Collier, theoretical physicist, discusses aliens, crackpots, and Avi Loeb ~space astronomy Video 1:06:38, published Aug 25 2022 18 votes
A massive seventy billion tonne underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock has been discovered in Norway ~science Article 442 words 16 votes
John Goodenough, part of Nobel trio in lithium battery hunt, dies at 100 ~science physics.solid state Article 1376 words 12 votes
Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm ~design urban planning architecture Link 10 votes
Scientists working to generate electricity from thin air make breakthrough ~tech Article 985 words, published May 24 2023 19 votes
Key building block for life found at Saturn's moon Enceladus ~space astronomy Article 508 words 9 votes
Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel ~enviro Link 10 votes
Multi-layer reactive foil: no fuel, no oxygen, tons of heat ~science chemistry physics Video 6:08 9 votes
Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields ~enviro Article 919 words 5 votes
I (basically) stopped weeding thanks to this game-changing gardening method; Tilling is out. ‘No dig’ is in. ~hobbies gardening Article 1477 words, published May 19 2023 27 votes
Wire EDM is an insanely precise manufacturing method. But there's a trick behind these objects that appear to have no seam. ~science Video 9:37 7 votes
Green steel: Can we make steel without CO2 emissions? ~science Video 14:47, published May 30 2022 5 votes
The race across Europe to build green steel plants – construction of a plant is underway just outside Boden in northern Sweden ~enviro climate change Article 1185 words 6 votes
IKEA is using more wood from Sweden and the Baltics to make up for not sourcing it from Russia and Belarus, which the company has shunned due to Moscow's war in Ukraine ~finance business Article 504 words 4 votes