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For years researchers have been trying to figure out the best ways of making plants produce biofuels. But there is a funda
Read More »Why Did So Much High-Profile Junk Fall from Space Last Year?
Two well-publicized satellite falls a month apart got me wondering: Is this the new normal? After all, there is plenty of junk in orbit, and it can’t stay up there forever. And NASA, along with many other space agencies, now requires that satellites tumble back to Earth sooner rather than later once their useful lifetimes have ended so as to limit collisions in orbit
Read More »5 Things They Didn’t Teach in B-School
So you got a degree. Now it's time to face the realities of running a business, including these lessons you didn't learn in the classroom. At the end of our first year in business I got on my knees and prayed to God for a sign: whether we should continue our business
Read More »Underground Nukes Leave Traceable Uplift
If a country wants to keep a nuclear bomb test secret, it’ll probably do it deep underground.
Read More »Binary Stars Have Plenty of Planets
Several planets in our solar system have multiple moons.
Read More »New Art Movement? The Science Artists Feed Keeps Growing
Ammonite Flax Flower Glendon Mellow. Under CCL. Most people are aware that there are trends and movements in the Fine Art world, just as there are in design, fashion, music and architecture
Read More »Service Teaches Computer Code Online Free
If you were going to move to a foreign country, you’d probably make an effort to learn the language. And yet so many of us live our lives in front of computer screens limiting ourselves to the technological equivalent of pointing and gesturing. [More]
Read More »Jet Lag: What’s Causing One of the Driest, Warmest Winters in History?
A little snow and rain are falling in a few states today, but the 2011–12 winter has been extremely warm and dry across the continental U.S. Meteorologists think they have figured out why. [More]
Read More »How to Buy Time in the Fight against Climate Change: Mobilize to Stop Soot and Methane
Humanity has done little to address climate change. Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached (another) all-time peak in 2010.
Read More »Ancient Star Explosion Is Most Distant of Its Kind
Astronomers have found the most distant Type 1a supernova, a kind of star explosion that should help scientists better understand the ever-expanding universe and the nature of dark energy, the strange force accelerating that expansion. [More]
Read More »Anti-GM Groups Attempt to Sully Transgenic Control of Dengue Fever
Genetically engineered mosquitoes developed by British biotech firm Oxitec as an approach to controlling dengue fever have been caught up in controversy since 6,000 of them were deliberately released to an uninhabited forest in Malaysia in a trial in December 2010. [More]
Read More »Can Improving TV Energy Efficiency Take a Big Bite out of World Electricity Use?
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Read More »Red-Wine Researcher Implicated in Data Misconduct Case
A three-year investigation into a University of Connecticut biology laboratory has found its chief guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications. [More]
Read More »Lufthansa and Air France-KLM Embrace CO2 Trade, Buy Permits
By Jeff Coelho LONDON (Reuters) - Several big airlines are taking advantage of European carbon law by snapping up emission allowances at bargain prices, tuning out an outcry against the scheme by many non-EU airlines and shoring up demand in a market that saw prices cut in half last year. [More]
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