Recycling

Happy Friday to you! I have been reflecting a bit on the controversy du jour: Google’s redesigned search results. Google is trying to foreground sourcing and URLs, but in the process it made its results look more like ads, or vice versa. Bottom line: Google’s ads just look like search…

Acidity within lysosomes (black) is required for proper digestion of nutrients for the cell. Credit: Rockefeller University Just like the body contains lungs, liver, and lymph nodes, so does each of the body's cells contain tiny specialized organs. Perhaps most peculiar among them are lysosomes—bubble-like sacks that act as part…

Sonos is dropping support for certain devices starting in May, and is warning users that legacy devices in a mix will prevent newer devices from gaining crucial updates as well.The announcement was made in a blog post, with the company attempting to explain w…

When we think of the world’s most polluting industries, we tend to focus on obvious culprits like oil and gas. After all, here in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency takes an active role in regulating industries that the government deems da…

Malaysia says it returned 4,120 tons of plastic trash to 13 affluent nations in late 2019.Forty-three containers full of trash were returned to France, 42 to the UK, 17 to the US, and 11 to Canada."If people want to see us as the rubbish dump of the world, you dream…

Malaysia will no longer allow other countries to dump their plastic waste on its land. The country has successfully returned 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mostly wealthy nations since the end of last year.  On Monday, Minister of Energy, Science, Tec…

Abstract Despite ongoing (macro)pinocytosis of extracellular fluid, the volume of the endocytic pathway remains unchanged. To investigate the underlying mechanism, we used high-resolution video imaging to analyze the fate of macropinosomes formed by macropha…

If you buy a cup of coffee to go at Babette Café in Berkeley, California, later this month, you might not be able to get it in a disposable cup. The owners have one case of compostable cups left, and aren’t planning to buy more. Instead, anyone who doesn’t have…

Chemical Recycling: Break It Down

The next generation of entrepreneurs is looking to earn cash in the most resourceful ways possible, by using an app they can access on their phones to launch six-figure businesses.  YouTube stars, for example, can earn six figure paychecks by posting videos …