Controversial geoengineering ‘antacid’ test in ocean attempts to reverse climate change

The scientists behind the first-of-its-kind experiment in the Gulf of Maine said they had sequestered carbon without harming ...

A world first at the microscopic scale: Metamaterials that can shrink and expand on their own

Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio have created soft structures that can take on different shapes without any ...
ArchDaily

A Century of Temporary Housing Experiments: Milano–Cortina and the Evolution of Olympic Villages

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games- Athletes Village (HARUMI FLAG). Image via Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0 Designed under intense time pressure and for a highly specific population, these environments reveal ...
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Dry ice phenolphthalein pH color change experiment

Watch a simple but fascinating chemistry experiment using phenolphthalein and dry ice to demonstrate pH changes in real time. See how carbon dioxide forms acid in water and causes a dramatic color ...
EurekAlert!

From small experiments to big production: how constant impeller tip speed helps scale-up

Rhamnolipids (RL) are widely used in areas such as oil recovery and bioremediation, but their industrial production has long faced key challenges in the scale-up stage, including poor scalability and ...
Nextgov

The government AI experiment Is working. Now scale it up.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Resource constraints and growing demands often challenge the aspiration for a federal government that serves all Americans effectively ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for ...
The New Yorker

Mark Bittman’s Experiment in Sliding-Scale Fine Dining

One morning in late September, the writer and former Times columnist Mark Bittman walked into the Lower Eastside Girls Club, a rec center in Alphabet City and the site of what would become, in less ...
Phys.org

Chip-scale cold atom experiments could unleash the power of quantum science in the field

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...