Sustainable “plastic” is harder than bone A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created a plant-derived “plastic” that is harder than bone and aluminum. CNCs Within all plants and algae, there is cellulose nanocrystals or CNCs. According to the MIT, “At the nanoscale, CNCs are stronger and stiffer than Kevlar. If the…
Vancouver Family Therapist Shelley Behr: Volunteering Is Way Forward to Solving Homelessness The homeless are accustomed to being invisible. They are off the radar and at the bottom of the agenda for many people and political institutions. So addressing this vital issue requires a simple first step: counting their number. In Vancouver, Canada, the task…
Hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara Desert An impressive discovery was made possible thanks to Artificial Intelligence: 1.8 billion solitary trees were mapped and cataloged in a desert area in Africa. Science at the service of biodiversity Using thousands of images recorded by Digital Globe satellites, a group of researchers has succeeded in…