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A newly-developed method applies ultrasonic sound waves to turn room temperature water and coffee grounds into a quality espresso shot. Taste-testers couldn’t tell it apart from a conventional brew.
Updated federal dietary guidelines finally take on ultra-processed junk food—but the push for more animal protein quietly erases every environmental gain, and then some.
Decades of agricultural stress appear to have forged unusually heat-resistant microbial communities. Researchers think cropland soils could be transplanted to restore fragile ecosystems.
Scientists discovered that plasma bubbles strip contaminants from industrial wastewater while locking in nitrogen. Garlic that grew in it nearly doubled in size.
A new study finds that grape pomace—the slop left over after winemaking—keeps chickens healthy almost as well as conventional antibiotics.
The world needs far more protein and far less pollution. A new study on integrated multi-trophic aquaculture suggests seaweed and fish, grown together, can deliver both.
At the right concentration, the carbon-rich soil booster makes ants forage 2x as fast, build threefold more complex nests, and bond more tightly. At the wrong one, it poisons them.
A biodegradable nanoparticle rinse made of starch, iron, and tannic acid outperforms water at stripping residues and doubles as a preservative. Cost at scale: roughly three extra cents per apple.
Researchers mapped the production of human and animal waste across the US and matched it against crop nutrient demand. The numbers work. The logistics don’t. Can we fix that?
Parametric insurance, once a niche tool for property owners, is now underwriting coral reefs. It’s efficient, innovative—and unsettling.
