Industry Tech Culture The US government has a new plan for slashing greenhouse emissions from buildings Setting some rather ambitious goals to knock greenhouse gases down and improve efficiency By Alfonso Maruccia, April 9, 2024, 1:46 PM 26 comments
Science Tech Culture People are drinking a lot of nanoplastic particles with bottled water Your fancy bottled water is not as pure as you would hope By Alfonso Maruccia, January 10, 2024, 5:35 PM 60 comments
Tech Culture AI Generative AI services are truly spectacular energy-wasting machines, says research After literature and arts, will generative AI finally kill the planet? By Alfonso Maruccia, December 4, 2023, 8:59 AM 18 comments
Space Dust samples from the International Space Station contain higher-than-average levels of dangerous chemical particles The contaminants don't pose an immediate risk to astronauts' health, at least in Earth's orbit By Alfonso Maruccia, August 14, 2023, 10:47 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Western Digital and Kioxia solve contamination issue affecting NAND fabs in Japan The facilities will ramp back up to full capacity by June By Adrian Potoroaca, March 3, 2022, 3:07 PM
Science China's 328-foot air purification tower is helping fight the country's smog problem It has reportedly cleaned over 353 million cubic feet of air every day since launch By Rob Thubron, January 16, 2018, 8:04 AM 14 comments
Industry Electronics LED bulbs reduced carbon dioxide emissions by more than half a billion tons in 2017 There's never been a better time to switch to LED bulbs By Shawn Knight, December 28, 2017, 4:01 PM 20 comments
Car Tech Bosch's high-tech brake discs aim to reduce dust by 90 percent Reducing emissions doesn't fully eliminate auto pollution By Shawn Knight, November 22, 2017, 2:16 PM 9 comments
Tech Culture Human waste discovered inside Coke cans at Northern Ireland production factory Coke said none of its products currently on sale were affected By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2017, 6:45 AM 17 comments