Average home is more spacious now than ever – here's why that's a problem for the environment

Larger homes with fewer occupants have a bigger energy and heating demand.

Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs, Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University • conversation
March 27, 2020 ~6 min

Cosmic impact obliterated early human settlement

"Such high temperatures would completely melt an automobile in less than a minute."

Sonia Fernandez-UCSB • futurity
March 9, 2020 ~6 min


Heat and pressure morph fossil fuel molecule into pure diamonds

With the right amount of pressure and surprisingly little heat, a substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure diamonds.

Josie Garthwaite-Stanford • futurity
Feb. 26, 2020 ~6 min

Connecting the dots between climate change and health care

Bringing climate change into the examining room by discussing links between a warming environment and the everyday health of patients.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Feb. 10, 2020 ~16 min

Irrigation keeps things cool in extreme heat

"...while global warming increases the likelihood of hot extremes almost globally, in some regions, irrigation expansion cancels or even reverses this effect.”

ETH Zurich • futurity
Jan. 15, 2020 ~3 min

‘Chameleon’ metal changes in response to heat

Like a chameleon changing color in response to its environment, researchers have found a way to use heat to change the surface structure of liquid metal.

Mike Krapfl-Iowa State • futurity
Jan. 13, 2020 ~3 min

Quantum weirdness rewrites rules about heat in empty space

Upending a basic tenet of classical physics, researchers have found that heat energy can travel through a vacuum thanks to invisible quantum fluctuations.

Kara Manke-UC Berkeley • futurity
Jan. 8, 2020 ~5 min

Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally

The effectiveness of non-mechanical, low-energy methods for moderating temperature and humidity has been evaluated in a series of experiments by researchers from the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 20, 2019 ~5 min


Urgency of climate change may be understated in intergovernmental panel report

The world’s oceans, glaciers, and ice caps are under assault by climate change. The Gazette spoke with former Obama science adviser John Holdren about the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report examining the threat.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 2, 2019 ~14 min

Harvard study: Artificial neural networks could be used to provide insight into biological systems

Martin Haesemeyer set out to build an artificial neural network that worked differently than fish’s brains, but what he got was a system that almost perfectly mimicked the zebrafish — and that could be a powerful tool for understanding biology.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Aug. 27, 2019 ~6 min

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