Until now, carbon dioxide has been dumped in the oceans or buried underground. Industry has been reluctant to implement carbon dioxide scrubbers in facilities due to cost and footprint. What if we could not only capture carbon dioxide, but convert it into something useful? S. Komar Kawatra and his students have tackled that challenge, and they’re having some success. A team lead by Kawatra, a professor of chemical engineering at Michigan Technological University, his PhD students, Sriram Valluri and Victor Claremboux, and undergraduate Sam Root, have designed a carbon dioxide…

Google has announced it will be launching new .dev domains , nor part of a new early access program. Intended to be used by software developers, the .dev domain name can be bought at GoDaddy, Name.com, Network Solutions, and Google Domains, however it will set you back some $11.500, plus $12 a year. That is, until February 28, when the prices should go down. The fee decreases according to a daily schedule, Google said. This Early Access Program is designed for developers and businesses who fear their domain name might…

From Alphabet Lab’s high-tech transformation of Toronto’s waterfront, to Bristol’s award-winning citywide communications network, the number and scope of smart city projects across the world is on the rise, with analysts forecasting the market will be worth more than $2.5 trillion by 2025. The fundamental objective of any smart community is to enrich the lives of residents and make local governments more efficient in responding to their citizens’ needs. From security to convenience to revenue generation, smart city applications will change the way cities operate and the way we live…

Based on new data published today in the journal Science, it seems increasingly likely that an asteroid or comet impact 66 million years ago reignited massive volcanic eruption in India, half a world away from the impact site in the Caribbean Sea. But it leaves unclear to what degree the two catastrophes contributed to the near-simultaneous mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs and many other forms of life. The research sheds light on huge lava flows that have erupted periodically over Earth’s history, and how they have affected the…

Once associated with negative connotations – such as unemployment due to job automation and industry redundancy, or sci-fi movie plot-lines to ‘destroy the world’ – IT is now widely accepted, adopted and better understood by people outside of the technology sector. An array of accessible mainstream IT applications means it has been seamlessly integrated into many elements of our daily lives. Whether through a virtual assistant that helps to book doctor appointments; an email service that can accurately suggest the end to a sentence or predict the next word in…

A major volcanic event could have triggered one of the largest glaciations in Earth’s history — the Gaskiers glaciation, which turned the Earth into a giant snowball I approximately 580 million years ago. Researchers from Heidelberg University and colleagues from Mexico have discovered remnants of such a large igneous province that resulted from the vast lava flows. At the time, it extended over three continents, which today comprises the Earth’s crust in parts of Mexico, North America, and northern Europe. The basaltic eruption must have covered an area of at…

2018 saw the implementation of GDPR finally become a reality, yet the data privacy has still presented a huge issue for many companies and businesses globally. With social media giants seemingly selling our data to third parties, the NHS staff supposedly reading patient records without good reason, and the questionable way in which banks may eu using our data to make money, the chances of our data falling into the wrong hands appears to be bigger than ever. Consequently, data privacy is now more crucial than ever, through providing individuals…