climate change When Companies Promise to Plant Trees, Blockchain Could Ensure They Do The technology that powers cryptocurrency can also be used to verify where trees were planted, their vital signs and their carbon offset — and that could make companies less likely to stretch the truth about their climate efforts.
blockchain This Startup is Using the Blockchain to Track Trees and Help the Climate Proponents of blockchain, the technology that powers cryptocurrency and NFTs, say it could also be useful in verifying that a climate promise actually came to fruition. Say a company promises to plant 10,000 trees: they want to make sure the trees are actually planted, that no one else is taking credit for them, and that the tree has a healthy...
aapi heritage Across These Pacific Islands, It Can Be 3 Different Days at the Same Time The next time you’re stuck in a Wednesday that feels like a Friday, think of your friends in the Pacific islands — they know the feeling. They’ve learned to adapt to the “time warps” the International Date Line and time zones can cause — like when it’s 3 different calendar days at once.
Music How Vinyl Records Are Made Have you ever seen a vinyl record get made? Early in the process, plastic bits get heated up into a “hockey puck” that then gets stamped with your favorite tracks. Hear from the owners of Welcome to 1979, a totally analog-capable Nashville studio that puts artists on vinyl; and staff at Hand Drawn Pressing, a record press in Addison, Texas.
food How Does Lab-Grown Salmon Taste? Pretty Close to Fresh-Caught Overfishing and climate change are causing trouble for the world’s salmon population in oceans and rivers – but what if your salmon didn’t need to be fished or farmed? Wildtype is using “cellular agriculture” to grow sushi-grade cuts of salmon and help fisheries recover. Co-founders Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck joined LX News to explain how it works.
Cancer These Researchers Want to Use Bioengineered Cells to Destroy Tumors Researchers at Rice University are hoping to begin human clinical trials on a cancer treatment that fights the disease right at the site of the tumor. Patients would be injected with a small bead the size of a pinhead – and this bead would act as a “factory,” secreting a protein that gets the body’s white blood cells to destroy...
NASA Astronomers Capture 1st Image of Milky Way's Huge Black Hole The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.
cybersecurity This College is Shutting Down After a ‘Ransomware' Attack. Here's How They Work Lincoln College in Illinois will close its doors after the pandemic and a cyberattack weakened the institution. Ransomware attacks can start with an attacker buying or guessing a password that allows access to their target’s systems, information security analyst Allan Liska says on LX News. He explains how these attacks can happen and how to dodge them.
video games These Games Entered the World Video Game Hall of Fame This Year Four new titles entered the World Video Game Hall of Fame this year, including one iconic adventure starring Link and Zelda. Jon Paul Dyson from the International Center for the History of Electronic Games joins LX News to talk about the inductees and the marks they left on gaming history.
Cybercrime Scammers Are Targeting Crypto Investments — Here's How to Avoid Being a Victim Cryptocurrency investment scams are on the rise as FOMO drives more people to wade into the market. And the blame usually lies with the user — not the technology. People who are older and less tech savvy are the most vulnerable, but anyone can be a victim. NBCLX storyteller Eric Rodriguez talked to cyber scam experts and the FBI about...
