Earth and Energy

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Companies are always trying to reduce the cost of producing fuel, and if they could…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Dirty industrial processes use huge amounts of energy and heat to create cement, glass, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our ability to create machines and products at the nanoscale improves, we need new…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more vehicles go electric batteries need to last longer and be more reliable, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Solar is already one of the cheapest forms on the planet, and this makes it…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more scientists complain that Plan A to solve climate change isn’t working, some are…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Plants face a variety of stresses, whether it’s crops suffering as a result of climate…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Earth has an energy shortage, apparently, and now we have yet another way to produce…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our ability to create and control plasma in new science fiction like ways improves…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF IOT devices will be crippled if they all need batteries to run, but by harvesting…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cold Fusion is thought to be impossible, but if it isn’t it would change the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As access to space gets cheaper we’re sending more rockets up today than ever before,…