paved with delicious tea
What to do with the waste produced by preparing hundreds of millions of cups of tea? Malaysian researchers are proposing turning some of it into infrastructure.
Mohammad Al Bijawi and his team at Universiti Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah Malaysia and his team outline both the problem and its attack plan as follows: Huge amounts of these are disposed of in landfills… The purpose of this study is to experimentally investigate the effects of: [carbon nanotubes] Analyzing the mechanical and fresh properties of cement mortar from tea waste. ”
They propose the best way to approach this in a paper published in the journal “Investigating the influence of nanocarbon tubes prepared from tea waste on the microstructure and properties of cement mortar''. Environmental science and pollution research.
They ran tests that seemed to predict good results. “Incorporating nanocarbon tubes from tea waste into mortar reduced cement usage and indirectly reduced CO2.”2 Emissions and Greenhouse Effects”.
They propose that one of the primary uses would be to incorporate the diverted tea waste into “highway pavements and highway median subbases.” Feedback worries that doing so would tempt millions of tea lovers to splurge and proclaim: [specify any location] It is covered with used tea bags. ”
solar blade
Solar cells that generate electricity could go the same way as razor blades.
Layering razor blades, rather than a single blade, gives people with hairy legs and hairy faces a more efficient way to get sunlight on those legs and faces. (which benefited them, as their skin was more clearly visible to the admiring audience). A big change occurred a few decades ago when two-blade, then three-blade razors were introduced and rapidly gained market share, not just hair. Single-edged razors are starting to seem a little outdated.
Plans are currently underway to create solar cells with multiple layers. In some schemes, each layer is made of a different semiconductor material that absorbs its own distinctive range of solar frequencies. Most modern solar cells are basically just one layer of silicon.
Already, some solar cell designers are using various perovskites (a type of mineral) instead of silicon.
Research on perovskite layers has yielded one of the most gently entertaining and shout-out-worthy titles ever published in a recent chemistry journal.
of Journal of the American Chemical Society It gives us something that is not beneficial at all.”La2SrSc2○7:A-site cation disorder induces ferroelectricity in Ruddlesden-Popper layered perovskite oxidesThis work was written by a group of seven people living in Japan with the rather fancy names of Wei Yi, Tatsufumi Kawasaki, Yan Jiang, Hirofumi Akamatsu, Ryu Ota, Hideki Torii, and Koji Fujita.
individual crocodile
Not only young children who want to impress their friends by imitating animal sounds out loud, but also adult children can easily learn how to play animals once they understand that crocodiles are individuals and not something that resembles a typical sound. can be raised.
All crocodiles, like all chimpanzees, cats, dogs, crows, or most types of large animals (and all humans!), make unique, personally characteristic calls. A study by Thomas Reisenhus Jensen and colleagues at Lund University in Sweden discusses the ubiquity and power of this loud personality.
Research published in journals animal behavior, titled “Knowing your mates by their calls: Acoustic characteristics of American alligator calls.'' Co-author Stefan Lever won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2020 with four other colleagues for making a Chinese female crocodile sing in an airtight chamber filled with helium-enriched air. When he did that, he caused a stir, so to speak.
arterial ants
The scourge of atherosclerosis, like many other medical scourges, can succumb to dietary attacks. So to speak, dietary discipline can lead your cardiovascular system to victory.
Little published research by Abdul Ademola Olaleye and colleagues at the Federal University of Datse in Nigeria highlights the health benefits of eating small portions of one all-natural food.
Details are provided in their study.Analysis and evaluation of fatty acids“Phospholipid and sterol profiles of five edible insect species: Lipid composition of five edible insect species”; Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research Series B: Biological Sciences.
Olaleye and his team specifically focus on the ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) to saturated fatty acids (SFA) in foods. They analyzed ant samples collected from several farms and markets. Their conclusion is that “the PUFA/SFA ratio in this study is sufficient to arrest the atherosclerotic tendency.”
Among all the discouraging news in the world, feedback suggests this is the best news.
Mark Abrahams hosted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previously, he was working on unusual uses of computers.his website is impossible.com.
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