For decades, China has been a densely populated country. With its population crossing 1.4111 billion in 2021, its population dropped by 850,000 in 2022. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the country’s birth rate fell by 7.52% in 2022. This, according to Chinese officials, is one of the historic drops in the population of China. The country’s officials have been trying a “one-child” policy to cope with the staggering population, but none of...

How often do you think about what’s in your wastewater? Probably never, right? Well, this professor from Washington State University in St. Louis decided to take a different route. Dr. Zhen poses the question: why is wastewater waste? For most people, it's utterly useless after being contaminated but, for this Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering expert, there's quite a lot of value in wastewater. For starters, it is filled with all organic materials – and its...

Who would've thought that someday robots would be cleaning our houses, keeping an eye on our kids in our absence, and making our lives a lot easier than it actually is. Who would've thought that someday we would just give commands, and things would be done in no time!  The smart minds who invented these ahead-of-time gadgets somehow knew what they wanted the future to look like. They had a whiff of what all would be...