Chemistry, Nano & Materials

Fitness Fads and Their Environmental Price Tag

Tamzin Preece: The ‘home gym’ didn’t feature in many UK homes before the pandemic, but it’s now much more commonplace to own various bits of kit for home workouts. Within the first three months of lockdown alone, exercise bike sales rose…

Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger.

New York Times: Chuck McGinley, a chemical engineer, stepped out of his car, eyed the smokestack of an animal processing plant rising above the treetops, and inhaled deeply. At first he smelled nothing except the faint, sweet fragrance of the nearby trees….

Loughborough leads Zero Carbon Loss biomanufacturing project

The Engineer: A Loughborough University-led project aims to develop a sustainable biomanufacturing system with integrated carbon capture and utilisation through a novel electrochemical approach. Funded through an EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing grant, the project is pushing to lower emissions within UK manufacturing…

Health Risks of Smoke and Ozone Rise in the West as Wildfires Worsen

New York Times: Dangerous levels of two air pollutants, ozone and smoke, are occurring in tandem with increasing frequency over widespread parts of the Western United States where millions of people live, researchers said Wednesday. The two harmful pollutants are a result…