SpaceX’s plans to launch its Starship-Super Heavy two-stage rocket 44 times a year from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are facing criticism from its two main rivals, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. The Starship The vehicle is the world’s largest rocket. Its two stages are SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster rocket… Read More »
A diet that promotes plant-based protein to help the environment now has a more humane argument: It can reduce your risk of dying from many major diseases. “This wasn’t just a cause of death. It was across the board,” said Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public… Read More »
NOT TOO FAST: With the new legislation, France has brought ultra-fast fashion players such as Shein and Temu into the spotlight. The country’s parliament unanimously passed a bill on Thursday that would ban advertising and impose penalties on low-cost imports into the country. This is the first step before the bill comes to a final… Read More »
Norway has become the first country to give the green light to the controversial practice of deep-sea mining. A bill passed in the Norwegian Parliament on Tuesday (January 9) will accelerate undersea hunting for minerals needed to produce green technologies such as batteries for electric vehicles. It allows some of the country’s seas to be… Read More »
Oyster mushrooms are widely used in research on fungal-based, living building materials. (Presented by UBC Biogenic Architecture Laboratory – image source) A team of Vancouver academics is combining the fields of microbiology and architecture to create living building materials made from oyster mushrooms and other edible fungi. They say their research into “engineered living materials”… Read More »