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...company typically uses moldable plastic over several layers of metal, but the details depend on the application. Creating the sensors hasn't been easy. Vice president of engineering Jonathan Luke says that rather than any one eureka moment, there has been "a lot of trial and error" - right out of the Thomas Edison playbook...
Their company, Aresa, a Copenhagen-based biotech start-up, has genetically modified a common weed called thale-cress so that its leaves turn red when the plant comes in contact with nitrogen dioxide - a compound that naturally leaches into the soil from unexploded land mines made from plastic and held together by leaky rubber seals. Aresa is growing large patches of the stuff on old army shooting ranges that have been seeded with land mines...
...starting to take note of everything from soil conditions to water pollutants to electricity usage. Measurement equals management. The idea is to get optimal use of such resources as fertilizers and energy. But one restriction on modern sensors is that they are built with rigid materials like hard plastic and metal, which give them shape and volume, restricting where they...
...chewable rings for teething, soft-covered books for pawing and mouthing. Parents shopping for their babies can be forgiven if they assume that everything on those shelves is 100% child safe. So why did the city of San Francisco issue a ban last week on the sale of certain plastic toys aimed at children under 3? And why are activists warning holiday shoppers in the most alarming terms against buying them? "Sucking on some of these teethers and toys," says Rachel Gibson of Environment California, a nonprofit, "is like sucking on a toxic lollipop...
...yesterday when the kitchen caught on fire—leaving inhabitants of the Co-op known for homecooked meals without a functional kitchen and with dining hall fare for the next few days. Residents use towels to clean the kitchen and put the dirty towels into a plastic barrel, according to Robert Byrne, facilities manager of Dudley House. “We believe some greasy towels that were just taken out of the dryer caught on fire due to spontaneous combustion,” Byrne said. Nine units from the Cambridge Fire Department responded immediately and confined the fire...