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Environment

How an Icelandic scheme aims to use fish entirely and eliminate waste

The innovative green project 100% Fish is repurposing fish waste products to make everything from leather and skin grafts to collagen, finds Graham Lawton

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Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be efficient dust producers, and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope shows this to great effect. Cooler cosmic dust glows at the longer mid-infrared wavelengths, displaying the structure of WR 124?s nebula. The nebula is made of material cast off from the aging star in random ejections, and from dust produced in the ensuing turbulence. This brilliant stage of mass loss precedes the star?s eventual supernova, when nuclear fusion in its core stops and the pressure of gravity causes it to collapse in on itself, and then explode. As MIRI demonstrates here, Webb will help astronomers to explore questions that were previously only left to theory about how much dust stars like this create before exploding in a supernova, and how much of that dust is large enough to survive the blast and go on to serve as building blocks of future stars and planets.

Space

How galactic mysteries near and far are poised to shake up cosmology

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A-Lab on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. 04/06/23

Technology

Are autonomous labs the future of science?

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A road sign is posted near a parcel of land recently purchased by Flannery Associates near Rio Vista, California on September 15, 2023. A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics as well as their motives. The project first surfaced when a mysterious buyer started gobbling up parcels of land in this rural outback between San Francisco and Sacramento. The buyer, first revealed by the New York Times in August, turned out to be a secretive outfit called Flannery Associates. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Society

The weird tale of California Forever, a tech billionaire instant city

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Beatriz Nascimento Afro-Brazilian academic and activist

Space

Two books to write and the universe to decipher – 2024’s gonna be busy

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A tale of two Silicon Valley Sams – Bankman-Fried and Altman

Technology

A tale of two Silicon Valley Sams – Bankman-Fried and Altman

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Youth from Fridays for Future organization stage a protest calling to cease fires and end fossil fuels in the conference venue, Blue Zone during the COP28, UN Climate Change Conference, held by UNFCCC in Dubai Exhibition Center, United Arab Emirates on December 8, 2023. COP28, running from November 30 to December 12 focuses on particular nations' decarbonisation goals. The Conference in Dubai focuses also on the most vulnerable communities and Loss and Damage (Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Environment

How 2023 saw the UK going backwards on climate issues

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Physics

Why I've been somewhat obsessed with space-time this year

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Life

The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland

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Technology

Trust and safety – the most important tech job you’ve never heard of

Trust and safety teams at tech firms are all too easy to overlook, but the rise of propaganda and online harassment makes them vitally important, says Annalee Newitz

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Environment

Could coal mining waste provide crucial elements for green tech?

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Space

Why we need to bring stellar astrophysics into the real world

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Health

HEPA filters cut covid-19 sick days but we've been slow proving this

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Society

Don't click on the war

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