A team of materials scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich has developed a new “livi…
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Mind & Life
Scientific jokes: Chris Rea was advised to replace the car with a train in his Christmas song.
Researchers have calculated that Chris Rea’s journey, which inspired the popular 1986 song “Driving Home for Christmas,” resulted in a carbon footprint of 44 kilograms. However, according to a team…
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The Carbon Majors report, a comprehensive database detailing the extraction of oil, gas, coal, and cement by the world’s 180 largest companies, reveals that 36 of these corporations are responsible…
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Archaeology boasts a variety of methods for dating ancient artifacts. Items made from organic materials—like wooden utensils, canvases, and leather goods—can be analyzed using carbon-14 dating. But what about a…
