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Paper bags and cardboard boxes normally headed for the trash were carbonized into anodes for lithium-ion batteries, and the resulting electrodes survived 1,200 charge cycles — roughly twice the durability of anodes used in current phone batteries
16+ hour, 38+ min ago (441+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit A paper bag that carried someone’s lunch on Tuesday has a plausible future inside a phone. Researchers at NTU Singapore have worked out how to bake kraft paper, the brown…...
Engineers took two kinds of waste out of dead lithium batteries, the black powder off the electrodes and a mix of shredded metals, and swapped each for a tenth of the sand in cement mortar. At 28 days the powder cubes were 35 percent weaker and the metal cubes 55 percent weaker — but the black-mass mix scored four times better on a strength-to-carbon measure.
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (506+ words) Trading strength for carbon savings: what happens when recycled battery waste becomes building material. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit A weaker building material can be the right answer. That is the counterintuitive read…...
Scientists in Switzerland made a sponge from cheesemaking waste that captures gold from discarded electronics — after dissolving metal parts from 20 old computer motherboards, they recovered enough to melt into a 22-carat gold nugget
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (533+ words) A Swiss lab transformed dairy waste into a gold-recovery tool, extracting precious metal from e-waste that most recyclers leave behind. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Cheese leaves behind a pale, watery…...
Reykjavík, Iceland heats every home, its swimming pools and even some streets with geothermal energy — tapping water that began as rain and snowmelt, seeped kilometres underground and returned hot from the rock
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (548+ words) A renewable heating system perfected over decades now warms nearly every Icelandic home—and the country is racing to export the technology before climate change rewrites the rules of geothermal abundance. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Rain that fell on…...
Slime mould has no brain, no neurons and no central control, yet when scientists placed food at 36 locations matching cities around Tokyo, it grew a network strikingly similar to the rail system — with comparable efficiency, cost and resilience
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (462+ words) A single-celled organism with no brain solved a transportation puzzle that took human engineers decades to perfect. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit A brainless yellow blob spread across a wet plate in a Japanese lab and, meaning nothing by it,…...
In a 2013 experiment, 20 of 24 radiologists missed a gorilla deliberately inserted into a chest CT scan while searching for nodules — eye tracking showed that 12 of those who missed it had looked straight at the animal hiding inside the image.
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (943+ words) A 2013 CT experiment showed that expert readers could look directly at an unexpected gorilla without reporting it. The finding concerns attention, not a clinical cancer-miss rate. By Mind & Matter · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Twenty of…...
Researchers heated egg yolk and leftover rice until it was a black powder full of tiny holes, then used it to store electricity. They charged it and drained it 10,000 times, and it still held 82.26 percent of what it did the first time.
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (515+ words) A humble kitchen waste might outlast the batteries powering your phone. By Lab Report · Edited by Mal James Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Why would anyone cook egg yolk and old rice into a battery material? It sounds like a…...
A research centre in the Netherlands pipes human urine from office toilets into bacteria-filled cells that turn the waste into electricity while recovering valuable nutrients — and the same technology can be configured to produce hydrogen
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (298+ words) The waste stream powering electric vehicles and recovering scarce resources might be flowing beneath your office right now. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Daniel Moran Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Two hundred and sixty men walked into an…...
Don't pretend to be someone you're not: the measurable cost of a false front, and where the line falls
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (60+ words) Authenticity isn't just nice to have—sustained pretending depletes your mental resources in measurable ways, but knowing when to hold back matters just as much. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Graeme Brown Published September 8, 2026 · How we edit Follow…...
In 1999, a Taylor, Texas Bland family deeded about 88 acres for parkland for $10; by 2025 that same ground had been sold for $10 million to a data-center developer despite the parkland deed
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (373+ words) A Texas family's nominal gift of parkland in 1999 became a $10 million data-center plot by 2025, raising questions about how the deed's conservation language disappeared along the way. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit Nothing about…...