science
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Somebody Explain to Me What Happens When You Flush a Toilet on a Plane
It doesn’t work like your toilet at home, which uses gravity to remove waste from our toilets into the sewer system. An aeroplane toilet uses a vacuum system along with a blue chemical that cleans and removes odours every time you flush. A smelly tank The waste and blue cleaning fluid ends up in a…
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Deep Sea Mining for EV Metals Could Kick Off Soon Thanks to Regulatory Loophole
A gilded Pandora’s box awaits miners at the bottom of the sea where polymetallic nodules rich in nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper are abound. Despite us not knowing yet how much damage deep sea mining for EV metals can do, operations could start by 2024 given a loophole in the regulations meant to protect the…
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Ask Giz Your Burning Tech or Science Questions (And We’ll Get Them Answered)
Phone not working in an elevator? Xbox not connecting? Is the Moon made of cheese? Don’t know what the deal is with pufferfish? Just Ask Giz.
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The Government Has a Plan to Make Australian Oceans More Sustainable
At the Ocean Business Leaders’ Summit, Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek announced a National Sustainable Ocean Plan.