Francesca Perry, CNN Russian designer Harry Nuriev’s latest sofa is made from a pile of trash bags. Recently featured at the Design Miami collection design show, the Trash Bag Sofa was inspired by the trash on the streets of New York, and Nuriev wants it to draw attention to how we use and waste things. …
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Press play to listen to this article Expressed by artificial intelligence. This article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Chapter 3 of the project is presented by Holcim. Hold your pee when it rains – Brussels can’t cope with extra sewage flows during …
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Approximate steady state in the near field. Left: profile ω̅; right: θ̅ X. Credit: arXiv (2022). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.07191 The movement of fluids in nature, including the flow of water in our oceans, the formation of tornadoes in our atmosphere, and the airflow around airplanes, has long been described and simulated by what we calls the …
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This week, the federal government signed on to an international agreement to recycle or reuse 100% of plastic waste by 2040, ending plastic pollution. But major obstacles stand in the way. The most recent is the collapse of Australia’s largest soft plastic recycling scheme, REDcycle. The program was suspended after it was revealed that soft …
NOTOrthowestern Medicine scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind why late night eating is linked to weight gain and diabetes. The link between mealtime, sleep and obesity is well known but poorly understood, with research showing that overeating can disrupt circadian rhythms and alter fatty tissue. New research from Northwestern has shown for the first time …
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