📱 A new app will help women with urine leakage
An app with information and exercise programs can reduce the discomfort for women with urinary incontinence.
🐝Walmart push policy to protect pollinators
Walmart requires suppliers to stop using pesticides and to start to facilitate pollinating insects on their lands.
🏳 World's most white color gets even whiter - reduces the need for air conditioning
An ultra-white color can reflect 98.5 percent of incoming sunlight and lower the temperature as much as a ten kilowatt air conditioner.
🌻5 examples of how renewable energy is changing the game
Worl Economic Forum lists five examples of renewable energy success stories, to emphasize the unstoppable trend.
🐘 Decreased interest in Ivory in China
The demand for ivory is at the lowest measured number in four years. Eight percent of respondents in a survey said they intend to buy ivory.
⛽ New method makes it 100 times more efficient to produce hydrogen
A new catalyst lowers the energy requirements for producing hydrogen so much that sunlight in the future can replace natural gas as an energy source in processes.
🌸 Scientists can now predict what the whole pollen season is going to look like
The daily forecasts for grass pollen levels can now be supplemented with forecasts for what the whole season will look like.
🍺 Leftovers from beer brewing can be used as biofuel
Researchers have found a way to make use of enzymes and bacterias to make both biofuel and animal feeds out of leftovers from beer brewerig.
🚢 Plastic in the ocean is used in asphalt
Fishers in India have been picking up plastic from the ocean that becomes an ingredient in asphalt. The project has been a success and is now spreading to the whole fishing workforce.