Fungus breaks down ocean plastic(nioz.nl)

233 points by gmays 2 years ago | 209 comments

Millions of tonnes of nanoplastics are polluting the ocean(nature.com)

7 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 0 comments

Hydrothermal environment discovered deep beneath the ocean(sciencealert.com)

62 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 17 comments

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world(ox.ac.uk)

250 points by mudil 1 month ago | 88 comments

Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean(bbc.co.uk)

148 points by cmsefton 2 years ago | 44 comments

Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades(euronews.com)

305 points by wooptoo 2 years ago | 142 comments

Plastics are poisoning us(newyorker.com)

361 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 416 comments

New Yorker article by Elizabeth Kolbert on how plastics release and attract toxic chemicals and spread everywhere, from human placentas to deep ocean trenches.

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods(plasticlist.org)

588 points by jeff18 1 year ago | 179 comments

The PlasticList report describing a project that tested 100 everyday Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals such as endocrine disruptors, with methodology and results.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour(nature.com)

535 points by alkyon 9 days ago | 115 comments

Nature news article reporting that bleached coral fragments recover within days by forming tissue bridges with healthy neighbours that supply microalgae.

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods(plasticlist.org)

418 points by homebrewer 1 year ago | 167 comments

PlasticList is a searchable database of lab-tested plastic chemical levels (nanograms per serving) in common foods, with downloadable TSV data.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.