Science and Nature

New England’s investment in solar has paid off in electricity savings during this summer’s heat waves. Italy could be the next country to build a solar railway after Switzerland’s successful trial. MIT engineers have created an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials. This new kind of cement could turn homes and roads into giant batteries. China has put a battery that lasts for thirty years on the grid. The death of a girl in a Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public. Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs. A hypnotic video of a massive iceberg collapsing and flipping over in Greenland last week. Scientists have detected a sharp acceleration in global warming. Stranded ships in the Strait of Hormuz could spread invasive species.