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The Desolenator: producing clean water

Travelling around Thailand in the 1990s, William Janssen was impressed with the basic rooftop solar heating systems that were on many homes, where energy from the sun was absorbed by a plate and then used to heat water for domestic use. Two decades later Janssen developed that basic idea he saw in S..
Jul 11,2022

Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Henry Moore (1898-1986) The British sculptor Henry Moore was a leading figure in the 20th-century art world. Henry Moore was born in Castleford, a small town near Leeds in the north of England...
Jul 11,2022

Having a laugh

The findings of psychological scientists reveal the importance of humour. Humans start developing a sense of humour as early as six weeks old, when babies begin to laugh and smile in response to stimuli...
Jul 11,2022

Should we try to bring extinct species back to life?

Geneticist Ben Novak is lead researcher on an ambitious project which now aims to bring the bird back to life through a process known as ‘de¬extinction’. The passenger pigeon was a legendary species...
Jul 11,2022

Could urban engineers learn from dance?

The way we travel around cities has a major impact on whether they are sustainable. The way we travel around cities has a major impact on whether they are sustainable...
Jul 11,2022

What is exploration?

We are all explorers. Our desire to discover, and then share that new-found knowledge, is part of what makes us human - indeed, this has played an important part in our success as a species...
Jul 11,2022

Driverless cars

The automotive sector is well used to adapting to automation in manufacturing. The implementation of robotic car manufacture from the 1970s onwards led to significant cost savings and improvements in the reliability and flexibility of vehicle mass production...
Jul 11,2022

Nutmeg - a valuable spice

The nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, is a large evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia. Until the late 18th century, it only grew in one place in the world: a small group of islands in the Banda Sea. part of the Moluccas - or Spice Islands - in northeastern Indonesia...
Jul 11,2022

Assessing the threat of marine debris

Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, has been trying to answer a dismal question: Is everything terrible, or are things just very, very bad? Rochman is a member of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis’s marine-debris working group, a collect..
Jul 11,2022

Why zoos are good

Scientist David Hone makes the case for zoos. In my view, it is perfectly possible for many species of animals living in zoos or wildlife parks to have a quality of life as high as, or higher than, in the wild...
Jul 11,2022