While much of the world has been bickering over whether climate change is real or not, climate scientists have been going about their research as usual. But what they have been discovering is revolutionary. Not only is human-driven climate change real; it's even more serious than we thought.Until now, most views of future temperature trends have been limited to this century, as if 2100 AD marked the outer edge of a world beyond which we dare not probe.
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Feed SubscriptionBursting MRSA’s Bubble: Using Nanotech to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Antibiotics have proved to be a valuable weapon in the fight against infection, but their popularity has also become their undoing. Although the drugs cripple harmful microbes from within, bacteria that survive such sabotage tend to develop resistance that makes them even more dangerous
Read More »Electronics Made From Human Blood Cells Suggest Cyborg Interfaces, Spark Nightmares
If the notion of next-generation electronic components made from actual human blood cells chills you, you may not want to read on.
Read More »Google’s Digital Library Failed–Can Academics Succeed?
Academic librarians, led by Harvard's, are positioning themselves as the successors to Google's scuttled vision for a massive digital library. But do they lack a coherent vision? Not long ago a federal judge in Manhattan scuttled Google 's plans to create a digital universal library (a dream kicked off when Larry Page scanned "The Google Book" years ago--his company has since scanned 15 million more).
Read More »IBM Research: The Semiconductor Industry’s Nanotechnology Can Be Nanomedicine
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a nasty skin infection often picked up at hospitals that can lead to pneumonia and blood stream infections if left untreated.
Read More »Search for advanced materials aided by discovery of hidden symmetries in nature
A new way of understanding the structure of proteins, polymers, minerals, and engineered materials will be published in the May 2011 issue of the journal Nature Materials. The discovery by two Penn State University researchers is a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials, which the researchers say greatly expands the possibilities for discovering or designing materials with desired properties. The research is expected to have broad relevance in many development efforts involving physical, chemical, biological, or engineering disciplines including, for example, the search for advanced ferroelectric ferromagnet materials for next-generation ultrasound devices and computers
Read More »The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011
Stanford's new entrepreneurship class is not for the faint of heart. Launchpad is designed around a series of hurdles: the elevator pitch, the functional prototype, week after week of sales results.
Read More »Flying Juggling Robot Helicopters
Scientists have taught flying robots how to juggle.
Read More »The Next Big Business Opportunity: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Looking for a way to angle into the burgeoning electric vehicle business? Forget cars--investing in the charging infrastructure is the way to go
Read More »Google’s Challenge to Facebook
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »Why Social Influence Matters to Businesses
Social Media has forced businesses to reassess the definition of influence. Influencers are telling us what to do on a regular basis across the social sphere, but who is listening and how does it affect our behavior and buying decisions
Read More »Bing Director Calls Google Copying Accusations "Crap," Appeals to Vatican Assassins
We branded it the Great Search Engine War of 2011 , when Google launched an all-out attack on Microsoft's Bing , accusing its arch-nemesis of copying search results. After several months, however, it's unclear what impact the war has had on Microsoft. Has Bing been planning a response?
Read More »7 Tips for Foreign Business Travel
Preparing for international travel is unlike planning a business trip within one's own country.
Read More »How This Man Led IBM’s Watson Team to Innovate
IBM's Watson , a super-computer best known as a Jeopardy-winning robot, might not exist if not for Dr. David Ferrucci
Read More »Tata, MIT Collaborate to Create Energy From Water, Bring Power to 3 Billion People
The Tata Group continues its ever-expanding quest to bring resources to low-income citizens of the world, this time with an announcement that it has joined up with MIT scientist Daniel Nocera, founder of SunCatalytix , to create power from water. Specific terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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