Snagging the Energy Slipping through the Cracks As the world grapples with the twin challenges of rising energy demand and urgent climate goals, one of the biggest puzzles we face is how to store and distribute energy more efficiently. A surprising hero has emerged in this story: heat. More specifically, the kind of heat […]
What’s all the buzz about? Here’s a honey of a fact: bee populations are starting to rebound in some areas, thanks to conservation efforts, pesticide bans, and increased awareness. In parts of Europe where neonicotinoid pesticides have been restricted, bee numbers have shown signs of recovery. Even urban gardens and community wildflower projects have become […]
This whiz kid is the talk of the town. When he was just 14 years old in 2023, Heman Bekele invented a cancer-fighting soap. It’s an affordable and accessible treatment option that could soon be a way to help treat skin cancers. His background Born in 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bekele moved to the […]
“Sometimes, the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step in your life.”
Heman Bekele
Positive news is good for your health. It’s undeniable: “Studies have linked the consumption of bad news to increased distress, anxiety and depression, even when the news in question is relatively mundane. According to Graham Davey, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Sussex, exposure to bad news can make personal worries seem worse […]
No less than a “revolutionary solution to capture and convert industrial waste heat into sustainable electricity”: that’s what Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems (ATS) has developed. For its efforts, the company has received the prestigious Earthshot Prize 2024, which recognizes innovators addressing the world’s most pressing challenges in five areas: protecting and restoring nature; cleaning our air; […]
Antibiotics can be lifesaving. One of the most significant discoveries in the history of medicine, they successfully fought waves of cholera, smallpox, plague, typhoid fever, malaria, leprosy, and syphilis. They are medications that act against bacterial infections, like Legionnaires’ disease (a type of lung infection), Lyme disease, meningitis, strep throat, tuberculosis, whooping cough, bloodstream infections, […]
Recognizing the Nobel Prize Winners “One of the discoveries being recognised this year concerns the construction of spectacular proteins. The other is about fulfilling a 50-year-old dream: predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences. Both of these discoveries open up vast possibilities,” said Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, after the […]
“Antimicrobials – including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, and antiparasitics – are medicines used to prevent and treat infectious diseases in humans, animals, and plants. “Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines. “As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become […]
For the 20% of the population who are more susceptible to being bitten by mosquitoes than the average person, here’s some very good news. A new repellent shows great promise in preventing mosquito bites by up to 80%. It is made from combining a renewable raw material found in cotton and wood, called cellulose nanocrystals […]
