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Mexico’s Wind Energy Boom Plays Out on Gusty Shores

Mexico’s Wind Energy Boom Plays Out on Gusty Shores

By David Alire Garcia LA VENTOSA, Mexico (Reuters) – On an arid plain where sudden gusts of wind can rip roofs off buildings and knock over tractor trailers, Mexico is building a new engine for its energy future. Surrounded by towering turbines in every direction, the town of La Ventosa – which means “the windy place” in Spanish – is at the heart of a wind power boom in the country. Mexico, the world’s 14th biggest economy, still punches well below its weight in terms of wind energy, ranking 24th on the planet in installed capacity last year, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).

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Methylating Your Muscle DNA

Methylating Your Muscle DNA

There’s more to your DNA than your DNA. We are now becoming aware of the epigenome. While DNA controls you, your epigenome may help control your DNA, or rather, it can have an extensive impact on how your DNA is expressed.

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Understanding How Animals Create Dazzling Colors Could Lead to Brilliant New Nanotechnologies (preview)

Understanding How Animals Create Dazzling Colors Could Lead to Brilliant New Nanotechnologies (preview)

The changing hues of a peacock’s splendid tail feathers have always captivated curious minds. Seventeenth-century English scientist Robert Hooke called them “fantastical,” in part because wetting the feathers caused the colors to disappear

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Paintings Made with Iridescent Nanopaints Change Color on the Spot

Paintings Made with Iridescent Nanopaints Change Color on the Spot

Some of the most brilliant colors found on butterflies, birds and squid are produced by nanostructures on wings, feathers and skin that reflect light. The effects can become even more varied when these “structural” colors are combined with filters made from light-absorbing pigments. For example, the characteristic green plumage of parrots seems to be produced by yellow pigment over a blue reflective nanosurface

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Wasted Food No More

Wasted Food No More

When you don't clean your plate, microbes feast.

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Food Deserts Leave Many Americans High and Dry

Food Deserts Leave Many Americans High and Dry

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When Pro-Vaccine Messaging Backfires

When Pro-Vaccine Messaging Backfires

Americans get a stream of messages telling them to avoid vaccines, from Jenny McCarthy on Oprah to billboard animations shown in Times Square.

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Living Photography

Living Photography

Phototropism, photo by Tangopaso Wie orientieren sich Cyanobakterien im Licht [More]

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Imagining the Future Invokes Your Memory

Imagining the Future Invokes Your Memory

I remember my retirement like it was yesterday. As I recall, I am still working, though not as hard as I did when I was younger

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Eternal Sunshine Drug Makes a Rat Forget Bad Things [Video]

Eternal Sunshine Drug Makes a Rat Forget Bad Things [Video]

Working at Scientific American , known for its spiffy technical illustrations, I always look for material that can show what an article is trying to tell.

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