Stick your carbon dioxide where the sun don’t shine

Climate change is a big problem—literally Earth-sized—and its cause is thought to be humans and our highly industrialized societies. To stave off the coming massive climate shift, scientists are developing many technologies, each with the promise to help reduce humanity’s environmental impact. These technologies include cleaner energies, improved industrial practices, and carbon sequestration strategies, among others. The least famous of these, carbon sequestration, is a method of removing carbon from circulation, and may provide a way to store massive amounts of carbon in the crust of the earth.

Science fiction meets reality in the photothermal nanoblade

Say it with me: the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell.

Mitochondria are the cellular organelles that evolved to provide energy to our cells. Most organelles evolved in the cells they inhabit, but mitochondria are different: they began their evolutionary life as separate organisms. As a result, mitochondria possess their own genome. Using this genome, they produce the proteins necessary for energy production, so when errors occur in the mitochondrial genome, cellular metabolism is put at risk.