Chemistry, Nano & Materials

Clean tech 2.0: Silicon Valley’s new bet on start-ups fighting climate change

Financial Times: Martin Roscheisen was once at the vanguard of the solar industry, leading a start-up backed by Google’s founders that was set to usher in a green revolution by…

How Space Lasers Could Soon Beam Clean Power Down To Earth

Forbes: The idea of space-based laser weapons orbiting the earth has been a part of popular culture and real life government projects for decades, from James Bond’s Goldeneye to Ronald Reagan’s ambitious “Star Wars” program. Recently, the Pentagon began developing…

Regrowing a tropical forest – is it better to plant trees or leave it to nature?

The Conversation: The destruction of tropical forest is a major contributor to biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. In response, conservationists and scientists like us are debating how to best…

Sir David Attenborough backs process that recycles all types of plastic

IMechE: Construction has begun on a new plastic recycling facility aimed at ‘solving the global plastic crisis’. The Teesside facility, which will recycle all forms of plastic, is the…