Emily Guerin

A Venus flytrap for nuclear waste

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Nuclear waste is extremely difficult to clean up, but a new synthetic material can snap up radioactive ions like a Venus flytrap devours insects.

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Out of (a noble) Gas

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Out of (a noble) Gas

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Seeing the Forest for its Bugs

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Note on Emerging Science/Solar Storage

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Cool Fix for a Hot Planet

Because many prisons are built in isolated, windy areas like hilltops or islands, they are ideal for wind power.

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Hard as Sea Snails

Soldiers in need of tougher armor might get help from under the sea.

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Cool Fix for a Hot Planet

The Minnesota Twins wants LEED certification for its major-league baseball stadium.

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Cool Fix for a Hot Planet

A class in Taiwan builds a schoolhouse made of papercrete ?a mixture of cement, paper, and water.

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Nuclear shop of horrors

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Nuclear waste is extremely difficult to clean up. But, as Emily Guerin reports, a new synthetic material can snap up radioactive ions like a Venus fly-trap devours insects. From Living on Earth.