Can UK fossil fuel companies now be held accountable for contributing to climate change overseas?

How Zambian farmers won the right to pursue claims in UK courts – and why UK polluters should be worried

Sam Varvastian, PhD researcher, Cardiff University • conversation
May 28, 2020 ~7 min

3D-printed ‘David’ is just 0.1 mm tall

3D-printing has created two tiny versions of Michelangelo's "David," one 1 mm tall, and the other just one-tenth the size of that.

Peter Rüegg-ETH Zurich • futurity
Dec. 18, 2019 ~3 min


Method may finally unleash graphene for faster computers

Today, computer components use copper, but graphene could make chips faster, lighter, and more reliable. New research solves the issues that kept it back.

Sonia Fernandez-UCSB • futurity
Aug. 6, 2019 ~8 min

2 genes protect staph bacteria from copper’s powers

Staph bacteria are notoriously resistant to antibiotics, but new research homes in on the genes that let them stand up to copper.

Todd Bates-Rutgers • futurity
Feb. 8, 2019 ~4 min

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