How can we safely drink water we’ve flushed down our toilets
Sure, drinking toilet water sounds gross, but with the right cleaning methods we can turn the dirtiest water you can think of back into...
Scientists find an unexpected way to recycle disposable masks
With the pervasive single-use masks during the pandemic now presenting an environmental problem, researchers have demonstrated the idea of incorporating old masks into a...
Scientists make world’s first LED lights from rice husks
Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year.
Scientists searching for a...
Scientists find new way to turn waste plastics into useful benzoic acid
Styrofoam egg cartons, hard plastic compact disc cases, red drinking cups and many other common products are composed of polystyrene, a type of plastic...
Chemicals in your dog or cat’s stool may threat your health
Scientists from NYU Grossman School of Medicine found chemicals in pet feces may signal threats to human health.
The research is published in the journal Environment...
How to blow up a building (or whale) safely?
How do you demolish a massive building – in the middle of a populated city – in a matter of seconds… safely?
Counterintuitively, you do...
Scientists find new way to grow extremely tiny diamonds without explosives
Diamonds aren’t just glittery, sparkly gems for jewelry.
The smallest ones, only a few nanometers wide, are also crucial for drug delivery, sensors and quantum...
Why your kitchen sponge is disgusting
Researchers at Duke University have uncovered a basic but surprising fact:
Your kitchen sponge is a better incubator for diverse bacterial communities than a laboratory...
Scientists find a new form of ice
Scientists have discovered a new form of ice, redefining the properties of water at high pressures.
Solid water, or ice, is like many other materials...
How water actually works?
Water is weird… really weird.
We’re gonna dive into the controversial chemistry and heated debates around the science of what gives water it’s super unusual...