In a bid to reduce the amount of microplastics entering the UK environment, the government has announced it will introduce a ban on the sale of wet wipes containing plastic in the country. Steve Barclay, the Environment Secretary, announced steps being taken to ban the supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic. It comes … Read more
Axiom Space and its partners, including the European Space Agency (ESA), have unveiled some of the groundbreaking scientific research that will be conducted during its Axiom-3 mission. The launch will take place in January 2024 on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will take the Axiom-3 crew – including Commander Michael López-Alegría, pilot Walter … Read more
Air pollution particles from coal-fired power stations are more harmful to human health than many experts realized, and are more than twice as likely to contribute to premature deaths as air pollution particles from other sources, new research shows. In the study, published in the journal Science, colleagues and I mapped how emissions from U.S. … Read more