Chile has just become the first country in South America to ban the widespread use of plastic bags. Following the implementation of the ban, small shops have two years to adapt to the total ban on plastic bags.
For the first time in the history of human civilization, most people live in cities. Climate change, water, garbage, transportation flows and digital connectivity will shape the future quality of daily life in our ever-denser habitat.
South Africa has officially switched on MeerKAT, billed as the most sensitive radio telescope of its type on the planet.
Pakistan has more glaciers than any other country outside the polar region — more than 7,200. Data gathered over the last 50 years shows that all but about 120 of the glaciers are melting, due to rising temperatures.
The achievement opens up the possibility of using similarly bioengineered lungs for humans in need of a lung transplant.
Approximately 94% of the 111 species and subspecies of lemur are under threat of extinction in their native country of Madagascar – the only place they exist outside of captivity.
In contrast with the conventional, completely sealed-off, air-conditioned tower, this hotel, designed by local office WOHA, merges architecture and nature, and combines indoor and outdoor spaces in a striking fashion.
As part of their 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge, NASA recently awarded five teams with a total of $100,000 for their designs for Martian habitats.
About 170 years ago, Eta Carinae erupted with a titanic blast becoming at one point the second brightest star in the night sky. Somehow, the star survived the “Great Eruption”, providing an intriguing mystery for astronomers.
Egypt’s government plans to put itself on the clean energy map with the inauguration of the world’s largest solar park. Dubbed the Benban complex, it is under construction in Egypt’s Western Desert and set to open next year.
Boeing will target the end of this year (or early 2019) for an uncrewed orbital flight test of its Starliner vehicle.
In this case a beam of lead “atoms” traveled through the accelerator with at least one electron attached. The physicists hope to one day use these accelerated atoms in a next-generation experiment.
It turns out that plastic bag taxes work. Really, really well. The number of plastic bags distributed by the UK's largest retailers has fallen by 86% since 2015, according to government figures.
If food waste were a country, it would place third – following the US and China – for impact on global warming.
A modular, reconfigurable paving prototype called Dynamic Street is a flexible system that would allow the function of a street to change quickly - from a roadway for cars one day to a kids' play space the next.
