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- Environmental warnings should stop drivers taking the road to ruin | Letters Wed, 10 Oct 18, 4:28amMatt Wheeler, Chris Osman, Pam Laurance and Bill White on the changes that need to be made to road regulations and driver habits in order to avoid climate catastropheFollowing the UN’s report concluding carbon emissions...
- A 19th century building is reborn as solar-powered temporary housing for families in need Fri, 20 Jul 18, 1:00amNo matter where you live or what you do for a living, there’s always a chance that fate will take a few bad turns, leaving you and your family in need of temporary housing...
- CityConnect shows you how climate change will impact your own home Mon, 15 May 17, 3:31amWe’ve all seen the maps that show Florida being consumed by rising sea levels. But many of us still underestimate the impact of climate change because we can’t visualize its effects. At the TechCrunch Disrupt...
- Cambridge scientists use light and plants to make cheap, clean hydrogen Thu, 16 Mar 17, 1:47amEveryone from startups to car companies as big as Toyota have seen the potential of hydrogen as a clean fuel source for vehicles, since its only byproduct is water...
- Miguel Chevalier projects a universe of light inside a Cambridge chapel Wed, 18 Nov 15, 2:17amChevalier created the immersive projections as part of a University of Cambridge charity event, where renowned professors and alumni gave speeches on biology, physics, health, neurosciences and other important topics...
- Herzog & de Meuron Unveil Designs for AstraZeneca Headquarters and Courtyard in Cambridge Mon, 21 Jul 14, 11:00pmArchitecture firm Herzog & de Meuron just unveiled their designs for AstraZeneca's new Global R&D Center and Corporate Headquarters based in Cambridge, England...
- New ice core record shows climate variability in West Antarctica Thu, 5 Dec 13, 7:00pmSimilar warming and cooling trends occurred in the mid-nineteenth and eighteenth centuries From AGU highlights: A 308-year ice core record provides new data on climate variability in coastal West Antarctica and shows that...
- Dazzling STARPATH Pavement Lights Up the Night With Stored Solar Energy Wed, 23 Oct 13, 3:00amUK-based company Pro-Teq has developed a glow-in-the-dark product called "STARPATH" that can be applied to virtually any pavement surface to provide energy-free lighting once night falls...
- Dazzling STARPATH Pavement Glows in the Dark to Provide Energy-Free Illumination Tue, 22 Oct 13, 8:20amUK-based company Pro-Teq has developed a glow-in-the-dark product called "STARPATH" that can be applied to virtually any pavement surface to provide energy-free lighting once night falls...
- First they came for the jelly-wrestlers… Sun, 12 May 13, 7:18amOnline petitions are one of the curses of our age. They're a curse, of course, because the people they're invariably aimed at are shrill, bitter lefties who've got nothing better to do with their rancid, soapless, job-free...
- Of Doric columns and climate change Fri, 25 Jan 13, 4:36amBy Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I am designing a cottage orné in the high Classical manner, to be built on our little patch of the Scottish Highlands...
- NASA Harnessing the Power of Microbes to Create Building Bricks on Mars Sat, 6 Oct 12, 5:00amMars image from Shutterstock Engineers at NASA’s Synthetic Biology Initiative are creating the building blocks of life – or rather, using life to create building blocks...
- PARK SPARK: Public Park Converts Dog Poo to Energy Thu, 7 Oct 10, 5:42amA new project in Cambridge, MA dubbed the “Park Spark” has dogs powering the street lights in their own dog parks. Designed by Matthew Mazzotta, a visual artist with a degree from MIT, the project uses dog poop...
- Put Down the Books, Pick Up the Caulking Guns Wed, 20 May 09, 4:53amStudents at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management do more than study issues like carbon footprints and energy consumption … they’re ready to tackle such subjects hands-on.
- MIT Students Win Grant to Deliver Off-Grid Solar Power Sat, 16 May 09, 3:52amStudents at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won one of six U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants for economically sustainable programs that protect the environment.