Scientists are turning toxic, petroleum-based asphalt into sustainable, self-healing roads using fast-growing algae.

Header image: ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir and Chris Williams took a moment to capture the occasion as they...

It took three years of experimenting, but the outcome was worth the wait.

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Every architect knows what a blueprint is. Fewer know the process behind it — cyanotype printing — was first used not for buildings but for algae.

In 1843, English botanist Anna Atkins began producing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, now considered the first book illustrated entirely with photographs. — Read the rest

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