Buying a second-hand EV? Here's what to know about battery quality
By Ellen Phiddian
As new electric vehicle sales rise, more EVs are entering the used-car market. Are used-EV batteries any good, and how can you check?
#ElectricVehicles #AutomotiveIndustry #RoadTransportIndustry #ScienceandTechnology #Environment #EllenPhiddian
Buying a second-hand EV? Here's what to know about battery quality
By Ellen Phiddian
As new electric vehicle sales rise, more EVs are entering the used-car market. Are used-EV batteries any good, and how can you check?
#ElectricVehicles #AutomotiveIndustry #RoadTransportIndustry #ScienceandTechnology #Environment #EllenPhiddian
Farmers breeding heat tolerant cows to better cope with changing climate
By Brooke Chandler
A fourth-generation dairy farmer is using a world-first genetic index to breed heat tolerant cattle, with his animals grazing in hot, sticky conditions and producing large quantities of commercial-grade milk.
#DairyFarming #SustainableandAlternativeFarming #Agribusiness #ClimateChange #Genetics #Agriculture #ScienceandTechnology #BrookeChandler
The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is about to peak. Here's how to catch it
By Jacinta Bowler
The annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower is about to peak. With dark skies, experts say this year's show is worth getting up for.
#Meteors #ScienceandTechnology #SpaceExploration #Astronomy #Comets #JacintaBowler
After 18 years of snakebites, Tim's blood helped create a potent antivenom
By Jacinta Bowler
Scientists have used blood from an American man who injected himself with snake venom for years to create what they say is "the most broadly effective antivenom to date" — at least in mice.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-03/universal-antivenom-snake-research/105233130
#Animals #Biotechnology #ScienceandTechnology #Biology #Zoology #VaccinesandImmunity #Reptiles #JacintaBowler
Old Soviet spacecraft expected to crash back to Earth next week
By Jacinta Bowler
Scientists are keeping an eye on Kosmos 482, which is forecast to plunge back to Earth next week. We just don't know exactly when or where it will land.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-02/kosmos-482-re-entry-soviet-venus/105237772
#Spacecraft #ScienceandTechnology #Satellites #SpaceExploration #JacintaBowler
What have Labor and the Coalition committed for the environment?
By Peter de Kruijff
With Australia in the grip of what many consider a biodiversity crisis, here's what the major parties have promised when it comes to nature laws and the environment.
#Environment #Elections #EnvironmentalPolicy #ScienceandTechnology #AustralianFederalElections #NationalElections #EnvironmentalManagement #EndangeredandProtectedSpecies #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #EnvironmentalImpact #Conservation #PeterdeKruijff
‘It's almost cheating’: How Michael hunts comets in his spare time
By Jacinta Bowler
Amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo discovered the latest comet to grace our sky. But he fears his tenth comet could be his last as a new state-of-the-art telescope is set to replace comet hunters like him.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-04-30/comet-hunter-c-2025-f2-swan-astronomer/105183694
#Comets #Astronomy #ScienceandTechnology #SpaceExploration #Spacecraft #JacintaBowler
It's our last day at NSLS-II and CFN User Meeting!
Stop by our booth to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
Are weather balloons state-sanctioned litter or vital for science?
By Olivia Sanders
Pete Furphy was surprised to discover remnants of weather balloons that had travelled more than 300 kilometres when he and his kids helped clean a secluded south-west Victorian beach.
#EnvironmentalImpact #Pollution #OceansandReefs #EnvironmentalManagement #ScienceandTechnology #HumanInterest #ClimateChange #Weather #OliviaSanders
The Environmental Impact of the Textile Industry
🗓️ Start: 14 May 2025 10:30 am
⏳ End: 14 May 2025 12:00 pm
‘Fast Fashion Fuelling Global Waste Crisis, UN Chief Warns’ was the shocking headline of a recent UN report. But that’s only part of the story. In reality, the clothing industry is damaging to people and places in many different ways, from how textiles and other raw materials are produced, manufactured into garments, packaged, distributed and sold, to how we care for them, and finally, how we dispose of those we no longer want. In this thought-provoking presentation, Helen Howard of Canterbury u3a will introduce us to some of the main issues that we should be concerned about.
To contact us about the Science & Technology group, click here… Get in touch
https://u3acommunities.org/event/the-environmental-impact-of-the-textile-industry/
It's our last day at MRS Spring 2025!
Stop by our booth#221 to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
#XAFS #XAS #spectroscopy #MRSSpring #scienceandtechnology #Seattle #MRS2025
It's Day 1 at MRS Spring 2025 in Seattle! Stop by booth 221 to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
#XAFS #XAS #spectroscopy #MRSSpring #Seattle #scienceandtechnology #electrochemistry #easyXAFS
We are so excited to attend MRS Spring 2025 in Seattle next week!
Stop by our booth#319 to explore the innovative world of lab XAFS and XES.
Can't make it? Visit us at https://bit.ly/4gJMMDa for more info.
#XAFS #XAS #spectroscopy #MRSSpring #scienceandtechnology #Seattle
Of War and Peace, and Chemistry
Imee Su Martinez and Günter Povoden in ACS #ChemicalHealthAndSafety
"Education on new knowledge and dissemination, hand-in-hand with developing a “chemical conscience” in our chemical practitioners, will minimize the risks and will aid in upholding the Convention."
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00044
#ChemicalDisarmament #ScienceAdvice #ChemicalWeapons #ScienceAndTechnology #ChemicalWeaponsConvention
#ImeeSuMartinez #GunterPovoden #OPCW
"Neuro-Synaptic Random Access Memory":
#neuromorphiccomputing #ann #artificialintelligence #scienceandtechnology #futurism
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https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-advancing-semiconductor-devices-ai-transistor.html
https://www.alojapan.com/1230233/japan-faces-99-times-more-heatwaves-if-global-warming-intensifies-warns-report/ Japan faces 99 times more heatwaves if global warming intensifies, warns report #ClimateChangeInJapan2025 #culture #ExtremeTemperature #ExtremelyHotDays #GlobalWarming #Japan #JapanMeteorologicalAgency #JapanNews #July2018 #July2023 #MinistryOfEducation #Nagoya #news #Osaka #ParisAgreement #rainfall #ScienceAndTechnology #sports #Tokyo #TropicalCyclones #urbanisation Japan could experience once-in-a-century heatwaves every year if global warm…
Andrew Leonard continues to write amazing things. He weaves together so many interesting things that you would not normally connect. Phillip K. Dick, Leibniz, tech, politics, Schezwan cooking, spices, journalism, internet, raising kids, Chinese history and so much more
"The Internet has become as useless as the Book of Changes because it will affirm or deny whatever we desire. And I cannot help but connect this unmooring of online truth, this cacophony of digital nonsense, to the state of politics in the United States today.
President Trump spews out insanity on a daily basis and his henchmen routinely say and do the vilest of things and Elon Musk tweets something factually incorrect almost as often as he takes a breath and it all means nothing because nothing means anything.
A quarter of the way through the 21st century, one of humanity’s supreme technical achievements is a network that facilitates the sharing of lies so efficiently that it broke democracy. Would we have elected Donald Trump president a second time, much less a first, if we still had gatekeepers keeping a lid on all the madness?"
#PhilipKDick #IChing #Internet #USPolitics #ScienceandTechnology
https://andrewleonard.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-became-the-book
