Groundwork Coffee Certified B Corp For the past two years, Groundwork Coffee has been working behind the scenes to qualify for the B Corp Distinguished Certification. B Corp certification is awarded to companies that agree to meet high standards of performance, accountability and transparency through their entire business model. Jess Smith, Groundwork Coffee’s Vice President … Read more
image: Supercomputer simulations have probed primordial black holes and their effects on the formation of the first stars in the universe. Black holes can help stars form by scattering structures around them through their massive gravity. They also hinder star formation by heating the gas that falls into them. Stampede2 simulations dedicated to XSEDE show … Read more
Amid increasing heat waves, air conditioners have become a lifeline. Since these devices are essential to keeping people cool – and protecting them from dangerously hot weather – the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that there could be more than 5 billion air conditioners across the planet by 2050. The problem is that while air … Read more
newly, spectral meta Receive funding as part of Canadian Space Agency Smart Earth An initiative to build a method for the systematic and systematic determination of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels present at Earth’s altitude using hyperspectral data. Metaspectral has created a hybrid on-premises and cloud-based software platform that is used in a variety of industries … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope has been observing the sky for only a few weeks and has already made an astonishing discovery: tens, hundreds, maybe even 1,000 times more bright galaxies in the early universe than astronomers expected. “No one expected something like this,” says Michael Boylan Colchin of the University of Texas at Austin. … Read more
Image: Cartwheel Galaxy, by James Webb Space Telescope, via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. A major argument in Stephen Meyer The return of the God hypothesis Focus on the universe has a beginning. He argues that the beginning refers to the universe generated by the mind of the Creator. Mayer’s case for the God hypothesis … Read more
Driving matters – even in outer space. You’ve seen stunning images from NASA’s new James Webb Telescope, which is now orbiting the sun. The US Congress nearly canceled the project several times as it drifted under poor leadership, and the budget grew from $1 billion to $10 billion. The Wall Street Journal described Greg Robinson’s … Read more
Scientists have identified the environmental and nutritional impact of more than 57,000 food products to help consumers make better decisions. The “effect scores” created by the researchers compared products such as beef, chicken or sausage with their vegetarian or vegan alternatives. Meat-based products, especially beef and lamb, received the highest impact scores, meaning they were … Read more
Damned if we do and damned if we don’t. This pretty much sums up the situation the human race finds itself in where the Earth’s environment is spiraling out of control due in large part to pollution from burning fossil fuels to power our machines and generate electricity. There are calls for climate justice everywhere … Read more
In the near future, NASA and other space agencies will send astronauts beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the first time in more than fifty years. But unlike the Apollo Era, these missions will consist of astronauts spending extended periods on the Moon and traveling to and from Mars (with a few months of surface … Read more
