News & Articles By Jhoanna Robinson
07/09/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson
Wind turbines could be made less noisy by copying serrated wing edges from owls
A new study that was done by a team of experts from Japan and China, and which was published in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics on Wednesday, July 5, showed the possibility of using concepts that can be gleaned from the unique wing features of owls to make the motion of wind turbines and aircraft […]
06/30/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson
North Carolina residents want to know if Dupont is secretly polluting their drinking water
Residents of Wilmington, North Carolina want to know if the water they are drinking every day could possibly kill them. Chemical conglomerate DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours’ manufacturing plants are located upstream from Wilmington – on a 2,100-acre property on the Cape Fear River in Fayeteville – where they produce GenX, a potentially cancer-causing […]
06/28/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson
Physics breakthrough can use sunlight to directly transform CO2 into clean fuels like methane, without using fossil fuels
Researchers at the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, have found a way to keep on using carbon-based fuel technologies without producing too much of the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) by doing away with fossil fuels. In the study that was published in the Journal of […]
06/25/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson
WINNING: Fluoride Action Network has forced U.S. courts to review fluoride toxicity in drinking water
Fluoride Action Network (FAN) filed a pivotal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the North District of California against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a rebuttal to the government agency’s denial of a petition that the non-government organization had issued under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) which […]
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