Photonics.com: Declining eyesight in humans was shown to improve when subjects looked at a deep red 670-nm light beam for three minutes a day for two weeks, according to a study led by researchers at University College London. The approach,…
New York Times: Even before last winter’s snow had fully melted, the roar of leaf blowers began to punctuate the quiet of many towns, renewing noise battles that had only intensified as more people worked from home. Leaf blowers are not just…
Financial Times: Martin Roscheisen was once at the vanguard of the solar industry, leading a start-up backed by Google’s founders that was set to usher in a green revolution by…
IMechE: Construction has begun on a new plastic recycling facility aimed at ‘solving the global plastic crisis’. The Teesside facility, which will recycle all forms of plastic, is the…
New York Times: Marty Odlin, who grew up and lives on the Maine coast, remembers what the ocean used to be like. But now, he said, “It’s like a desert and just within my lifetime.” In the last few years, he said,…