Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out
Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, and can make soil less acidic. In that way it’s like limestone, which farmers often use to improve…
World must prepare for frequent and severe droughts, report warns
A severe drought this year affected the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, in Brazil Andre Coelho/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The increasing frequency and severity of droughts across the world is “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”, says a United Nations report launched today at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates….
This Pill Tracks Your Vitals From the Inside
Digital health company Celero Systems is developing an electronic pill that can measure heart rate, breathing rate, and core temperature—from inside the human stomach. As a first step, the company envisions people with ongoing conditions using the digital capsule to monitor their vital signs at home. But in the future, they hope to use it…
How will we actually know when we pass 1.5°C of warming?
It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5°C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definitions would only make this failure official 10 years later, which could waste time in bringing temperatures back down Source link
Green Chat Bubbles Aren’t the Problem—Texting Is
This week, we talk about the quest to make texting between mobile platforms more seamless. Will it make things better, or will it further erode our humanity? Source link
Vaping vs edibles: How does the way we use cannabis alter its effects?
Cannabis edibles offer a different way to consume the drug Shutterstock/Brian Goodman For people who want their cannabis without the smoke, edibles provide an increasingly popular alternative. And it isn’t just pot brownies, either. Gummies, tinctures and other products can be laced with the drug. “The availability of different types of products makes it so…
Tom Bihn Trinity Bag Review: Convertible Travel Briefcase
When I was a child, shuttling back and forth between the United States and summers with relatives in the Philippines, I carried two months’ worth of clothes in a small duffel so that I could use my checked suitcase to bring gifts back and forth across the Pacific. Back then, being a light packer meant…
Pudgy Penguins, NFTs Behind Walmart Toys, Now Chilling in Pudgy World
The Pudgy Penguins NFT collection first dropped in July 2021, selling out within minutes. Since then, the collection has grown to 8,888 NFTs held by more than 4,000 people, Open Sea data shows. The collection’s floor price is roughly $27,000, up from $90 more than two years ago. The collection’s market cap stands at nearly…
GPT-4 developer tool can be exploited for misuse with no easy fix
OpenAI’s developer tool for its GPT-4 large language model can be misused to trick the AI into providing information to aid would-be terrorists, and fixing the problem won’t be easy Source link
The Best Online Gift Cards and Digital Gift Ideas (2023)
Trawling through busy retail stores seeking gifts is a daunting task. Shopping online can be just as time-consuming, and you may run into delivery delays. Even if you successfully secure a haul of presents, many will wind up in closets or charity stores. It’s time to try an online gift. Digital presents and online gift…