Each human being uses, on average, 30 kg of plastic per year. Given that global life expectancy currently stands at approximately 70 years, each person will discard some two metric tons of plastic in his or her lifetime. Multiply that by the number people on earth—which is growing constantly—and the total is staggering. Read More
The interiors of Uranus and Neptune each contain about 50 000 times the amount of water in Earth’s oceans, and a form of water known as superionic water is believed to be stable at depths greater than about one-third of the radius of these ice giants. Read More
The use of GPS-equipped ankle monitors is increasingly viewed as a more humane alternative to incarceration, yet a report released today finds they cause many of the same harms associated with traditional incarceration. The report by Kate Weisburd, an associate professor of law at the George Washington University, and a team of GW law students …
Fusion power plants use magnetic fields to hold a ball of current-carrying gas (called a plasma). This creates a miniature sun that generates energy through nuclear fusion. The Compact Advanced Tokamak (CAT) concept uses state-of-the-art physics models to potentially improve fusion energy production. The models show that by carefully shaping the plasma and the distribution of …
Hubble Space Telescope’s glamor shots of the universe are so revealing they nearly always have a discovery behind them. Read More
