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In Ruth’s debut novel, Kate Andrews is a famous actress with a loving husband, Matt, and an effervescent young daughter, Tallulah. To the outside world, her life is perfect. But on a PR visit to a school in Scotland, she encounters teacher Callum, an older man with whom she had an affair 17 years before. […]
Carbon fiber is glamorous. It helps shed precious pounds from performance-focused cars like those from McLaren (its carbon Monocell is pictured above) as well as upmarket eco-warriors like the BMW i3, and it is increasingly applied as merit-badge splashes of decor on sporty trims of myriad other vehicles. But it also has a dark side in that it’s by no means an eco-conscious material to produce. […]
Enlarge (credit: Mo Berger) Indigo plants have been used to dye fabric for thousands of years. Unlike other dyes, indigo does not end up chemically linked to textile fibers; rather, it adsorbs to the surface of the threads. This allows the fibers’ white cores to show through to various degrees after abrasion. Hence that impossible-to-replicate […]
Trees stretching their canopies over city streets and grass tickling the sidewalk near your home are more than just pretty, they could actually be helping you live longer, a new study suggests. CBC | Health News
Fabled for a willingness to relocate for opportunity, Americans are the least mobile since after World War II, even in economically depressed rural locales. WSJ.com: What’s News US
Some wags will always try to claim that EVs are just as dirty as regular cars, because electricity is generated in coal-fired power stations. Except, that’s less true now, which is why the Union of Concerned Scientists has updated its data on how environmentally friendly electric cars are. The results won’t shock you, but the […]
Some wags will always try to claim that EVs are just as dirty as regular cars, because electricity is generated in coal-fired power stations. Except, that’s not really true anymore, which is why the Union of Concerned Scientists has updated its data on how environmentally friendly electric cars are. The results won’t shock you, but […]
Air travel releases almost 800 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, pushing usever closer to our looming environmental catastrophe. NASA scientists want to do something about it, and teamed up with researchers in Germany and Canada to find a way to tackle the issue. Its findings claim that jets that use biofuels emit up […]
