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In the middle of South Africa's worst drought on record, a 16-year-old boiled orange peels, added avocado skins and left the mix out in the sun — her polymer beat the industrial water-absorber 76.1% to 74.7% at roughly a fiftieth of the price per tonne, and Google's grand prize followed
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (224+ words) A teenager's kitchen experiment with fruit waste outperformed industrial polymers and caught the attention of Google, offering hope to farmers watching their fields wither in Africa's worst drought in over a century. Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit In 2016, South Africa…...
We tend to think of lions as Africa’s ultimate killers, but a lone lion hunting in daylight succeeds in only about one chase in five, while packs of the endangered, large-eared African wild dog have been recorded succeeding in as many as nine out of ten
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (552+ words) The lion owns the human imagination in a way few predators ever have. It is the animal on shields and flags, the roar behind the idea of wild Africa, the...
Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only animal known to do so, forming the flat-sided pellets inside the last stretch of their intestines and stacking them on rocks and logs to mark territory in a way round droppings would simply roll away from.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (967+ words) This is not a folk claim or a zookeeper’s exaggeration. Wombats are the only known animal in the world that produce faeces with flat sides, a fact confirmed in 2018 when a team led by Georgia Institute of Technology engineer Patricia…...
Your Breakfast Might Disarm Cholera Before It Strikes
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (434+ words) People living in cholera-prone regions often wonder why some neighbors get violently sick while others stay healthy despite similar exposure. The answer might involve what’s on their plates. Mice fed casein from dairy or gluten from wheat showed 100-fold less…...
Sahara Poised For A 75 Percent Rainfall Surge By 2100
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (223+ words) Heat shimmers above pale dunes, then the sky lets go. That is the future some climate models now sketch for parts of the Sahara, where rain has long been a rare visitor. In a new analysis from the University of…...