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5 Kitchen Scraps to Plant in Your Garden, Not the Trash

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Enhance your garden with these everyday items from your kitchen. Kitchen scraps create a lot of waste , however, numerous edibles can be diverted from your garbage bin to your garden instead. "Food waste significantly contributes to climate change—we discard approximately one-third of our food globally," says Michael Karapetian, who heads the Great Global Cleanup initiative at Earthday.org. When you compost By engaging in this practice, you're benefiting the Earth as you return crucial elements such as nitrogen and carbon directly into the soil, rather than occupying landfills with waste." At this juncture, specialists in horticulture and composting share advice on optimal food items for your garden. Whether it’s banana peels or chicken eggs’ shells, here are various culinary leftovers that can be incorporated into your cultivated areas to enhance soil quality as well as decrease refuse. Meet Our Expert Michael Clarke...

From US Scientist to Lithuanian Contentment: A Better Work-Life Balance Keeps Me Staying

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Stephen Knox Jones Jr. never believed he could afford time off during his scientific career in the U.S. He experienced guilt over going on vacation, and his equilibrium between work and personal life was off-kilter. Everything shifted once he relocated to Lithuania, significantly improving the caliber of his work as a result. This essay, compiled from an interview with Stephen Knox Jones Jr., a 37-year-old researcher residing in Vilnius, Lithuania, has been condensed and clarified for brevity. Growing up in New Hampshire I never doubted the demanding 16-year journey required to follow my zeal for biotechnology. I obtained my doctoral degree in Rhode Island and carried out my postdoctoral work in Texas. Throughout these various phases of my career, I refrained from taking vacations due to feeling culpable about being away from work. I would consistently move to the following position within a week after departing from my prior role since that was w...

Scientists Unveil 'Game-Changing' Phenomenon Solving 80-Year-Old Mystery

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Researchers have uncovered a new aspect of water behavior that significantly alters our comprehension of this substance. how the world works And this might result in entirely new technological advancements. A group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) revealed a phenomenon known as the "photomolecular effect," which shows for the first time that water has the ability to evaporate without any thermal energy when exposed solely to light. This study could potentially unravel an 80-year-old enigma regarding why clouds soak up sunlight in a manner that seems to contradict the principles of physics. For many years, researchers and climate experts have been baffled by the fact that clouds absorb significantly more light than what theories predict should be feasible. “The finding of evaporation Caused by light rather than heat, this offers novel disruptive insights into the nature of illumination. water “Interaction,” stated Xiulin Ruan, a mechani...