19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating… Read More
Before anyone thinks I’m raising an alarm for flood warnings ala that wonderful(?) movie, 2012, no I’m not. I don’t imagine this is going to result in flood-waters spreading or immediate global catastrophe… Read More
We’ve always understood there to be four fundamental forces of nature; gravity, weak and strong nuclear forces and electromagnetic, but a new breakthrough in particle physics means we may be on the path… Read More
Our Sun is not our buddy. Yes, that sounds a tad dramatic and it’s meant to be more to get your attention so you really read this than anything else. Below we have… Read More
I’ve been feeling tired these days folks – not your garden variety physical tiredness though, nor really “tired of life” or any other old cliche or other. I quite like life and mine… Read More
The Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. Scientists say the dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every… Read More
