Making Portland cement requires reaching ultra-high temperatures, over 1,450 °C (2,650 °F). Instead, Cemvision makes a material that requires lower temperatures (roughly 1,200 °C, or 2,200 °F), which reduces the amount of energy required.
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Bill Gates: Our best weapon against climate change is ingenuity
But I don’t think this is a reason to be pessimistic. I see it as cause for optimism, because humans are very good at inventing things. In fact, we’ve already created many tools that are reducing emissions. In just the past 10 years, energy…
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2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pairwise and its climate-adapted crops
Among its early efforts, the company is developing and field testing shorter, sturdier types of corn, blackberries and other crops that could survive high winds and other extreme weather events amplified by climate change.
The company…
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Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if some unknown pattern underlies their…
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Unique gene variants in the Turkana people of Kenya may help them survive harsh desert heat
The Turkana people, an ethnic group in Kenya, have evolved genetic adaptations to help their bodies conserve water in extreme desert heat, a new study suggests.
Turkana women commonly walk 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 kilometers) each day while…
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Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026
Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, on Sept. 30 decided to suspend the Amazon soy moratorium from Jan. 1, 2026. Depending on the probe’s course of action, this could dismantle…
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The Future of the Grid: Simulation-Driven Optimization
This is a sponsored article brought to you by COMSOL.
Simulation software is useful in the analysis of new designs for improving power grid resilience, ensuring efficient and reliable power distribution, and developing components that integrate…
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Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible
Just like you probably don’t grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don’t write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow and could create more security issues than it…
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Corleck Head: A spooky three-faced Celtic sculpture found on the ‘Hill of Death’ in Ireland — and it may have been connected to human sacrifice 1,900 years ago
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Name: Corleck Head
What it is: A three-faced sandstone sculpture
Where it is from: County Cavan, Ireland
When it was made: First century
This carved stone head was discovered in 1855 in the Irish town of Drumeague, about 60 miles (100…
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