(Natural News) California — the state that created the U.S. car culture — will ban all internal combustion-engine cars and passenger trucks starting in 2035. In a Wall Street Journal report, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Sept. 23, which allows the California Air Resources Board to develop regulations for vehicle sales to meet emission […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have unveiled a new air filter that could help fight the coronavirus pandemic. As detailed in an article published in the journal Materials Today Physics, the “catch and kill” device successfully killed 99.8 percent of aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 — the Wuhan coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 — in a single pass through […]

(Natural News) As parts of the country experience heat waves and power outages, scientists have been hard at work looking for new, more power-efficient methods to cool buildings. Recently, a group of engineers have designed one such system that absorbs indoor heat and shoots it up to outer space, all without using any electricity. The […]

(Natural News) While much has been written about nanomaterials and the benefits they will give humans, not as much thought has been given to how they can benefit plants. A recent study looks to change that, exploring how nanomaterials may be able to give plants “super” abilities. The researchers, who presented their study at the […]

(Natural News) The existence of planets orbiting distant stars outside of Earth’s solar system has accelerated the search for life in space. But despite the fact that these planets, called exoplanets, are too far off to explore using current space technologies, scientists think that they might possess a greater potential for life than Earth itself. Stephanie Olson, […]

(Natural News) The spacecraft Mars Express from the European Space Agency (ESA) captured images on July 17 and 19 that show a mysterious cloud about 1,110 miles long hovering over the volcano Arsia Mons in Mars. Scientists said that it previously appeared in the same spot in 2018, as well as at least three more occasions […]

(Natural News) A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications found that benign volcanoes that produce basaltic lava flows hide highly explosive magma components. Many volcanoes do not cause life-threatening eruptions even though they release a steady stream of lava. For example, volcanoes in Iceland, Hawaii and the Galapagos Islands consistently emit lava comprised of molten […]

(Natural News) Neuroscientists can now decode real-time spoken and heard speech signals in the brain into written text. Their groundbreaking research, published in the Nature Communications journal, is the first to demonstrate how a person’s intended speech can be drawn from brain signals and decoded into text before the actual act of speech itself. According […]

(Natural News) The next generation of wearable technology could be developed with materials from a most unlikely source: red wine. A team of scientists are looking at using tannic acid found in red wine to help create flexible fibers for use in wearable devices. In a recent study published in the journal Small, researchers from the University of Manchester, the […]

(Natural News) The transit authority in New York City is going to install germicidal ultraviolet lights in the city’s trains to see if they can help city officials disinfect the subway cars of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) calls the use of UV light “another aggressive step” in making sure that New York’s public trains don’t […]