Innovative battery design: More energy and less environmental impact
Lithium metal batteries are among the most promising candidates of the next generation of high-energy batteries. They can store at least twice as much energy per unit of volume as…
Global life expectancy to increase by nearly 5 years by 2050 despite geopolitical, metabolic, and environmental threats
The latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, published today in The Lancet, forecast that global life expectancy will increase by 4.9 years in males and…
Environmental monitoring offers low-cost tool for typhoid fever surveillance
Researchers can accurately track where typhoid fever cases are highest by monitoring environmental samples for viruses called bacteriophages that specifically infect the bacterium that causes typhoid fever. Senjuti Saha of…
Researchers develop grassroots framework for managing environmental commons
A team of sustainability scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced in the journal PLOS ONE that they have developed a community-based framework, founded on extensive local and…