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Engineers cook up a new way to tackle CO2: Make baking soda
Engineers have found a material that can collect carbon dioxide from the air. When later mixed with water, it forms baking soda that can be shed in the sea.
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Engineers have found a material that can collect carbon dioxide from the air. When later mixed with water, it forms baking soda that can be shed in the sea.
If made under gentle conditions, leather formed from the “roots” of mushrooms can retain the ability to regrow and repair minor damage.
To store the energy generated by wind and solar power, researchers are looking at mammoth systems that raise and lower weights.
Unlike solar power, this new source of electricity is available day or night.
Making such organoids with 3-D printing and other tech can help researchers learn more about many troubling and potentially deadly disorders.
Chemists make a liquid alternative to fossil fuels from carbon dioxide, water and the sun. Their trick? They use a new type of artificial leaf.
A prototype fabric could help keep cars, buildings and other spaces cooler during heat waves while also reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
After being washed, dried, sanitized and shredded, used diapers were mixed with other materials to make a strong concrete.
With layers that work like polar bears’ skin and fur, a material absorbs light and keeps it from escaping.
The rainbow palette and cooling powers of new plant-based films comes from their microscopic surface patterns of tiny crystals.