The Earth’s Internet: How Fungi Help Plants Communicate
Plants have their own interconnected networks that allow them to communicate with each other, sometimes over considerable distances!
What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like?
The past is a vast and mysterious land that begins at the big bang and ends in the present, expanding with each passing moment. It is the home of everything that came before, the key to understanding our present. Here we find the most amazing creatures to ever roam our planet, hundreds of millions of […]
Multiple Mars missions are about more than just science | DW News
NASA’s new research rover Perseverance has been heading for Mars for nearly seven months. Now it’s time for the extremely difficult landing. Since the Martian atmosphere is so thin, the rover would normally plummet to the surface — meaning it must be slowed down. The second problem: our neighboring planet is so far away that […]
How Long Can We Live? We May Finally Know the Answer
What if you could live forever? Okay, maybe not forever, but would you take 150 years? A new study is shedding light on how we age…and may even show us a way to push the limits on human lifespan.
Cultivating Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms | PARAGRAPHIC
Step into the mushroom kingdom and unlock the secrets of fungi. From lions mane and reishi to shiitake and pink oyster, these healthy and delicious mushroom species are worth the effort it takes to grow them. With incredible cognitive and neurological benefits, these mushrooms may hold the key to solutions for many of society’s ailments.
Backyard Aquaponics Farming Fresh Fish and Vegetables | PARAGRAPHIC
Aquaponics combines two growing methods, aquaculture and hydroponics, to create a self-contained, well-balanced ecosystem. Fish are fed and raised in a tank and as gravity pulls the wastewater through a hydroponic garden, bacteria feed on the waste, breaking it down into essential nutrients for the plants to grow. The system then returns the cleaned water […]
Vegan mushroom leather fashion from Indonesia | Global Ideas
Shoes, bags, armbands – Adi Reza Nughoro in the city of Bandung creates the raw material for such products from agricultural waste. His startup Mycotech makes leather from mushrooms. It’s easy on the environment and doesn’t involve killing animals.
What You Need to Know About Trojan Asteroids
You’ve heard of asteroids… But have you heard of Trojan asteroids? Our upcoming Lucy mission will study these time capsules from the birth of our solar system for the first time ever. Find out what you need to know about Trojan Asteroids.
Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids
Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, leading and trailing the giant planet by sixty degrees. These primitive bodies are thought to be the “fossils” of planet formation, trapped by Jupiter’s gravity at the dawn of the solar system. Now, NASA is sending […]
Do the Past and Future Exist?
Is all that exists just whatever exists right now? Is the past erased and the future a void yet to be filled? Well, the answer lies in between the past and the future – in the elusive, ever-moving eye-blink that we call the present.
Covid-19: Can vaccines keep up with variants? | The Economist
The race between covid-19 vaccines and variants is on. Alok Jha, The Economist’s science correspondent, and Natasha Loder, health policy editor, discuss what this means for the future
Mass extinction: what can stop it? | The Economist
The world’s animals and wildlife are becoming extinct at a greater rate than at any time in human history. Could technology help to save threatened species?
The limits of growth
What do bacteria and babies, empires and economies all have in common? Bill Gates discusses growth with professor Vaclav Smil. Learn more at https://gatesnot.es/384aFBZ
Hydrogen: fuel of the future? | The Economist
It’s been hailed as fuel of the future. Hydrogen is clean, flexible and energy efficient. But in practice there are huge hurdles to overcome before widespread adoption can be achieved.