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Feed SubscriptionCan Fracking and Carbon Sequestration Coexist?
Natural gas production and carbon sequestration may be headed for an underground collision course. [More]
Read More »Sex-Deprived Flies Seek Swig Solace
You know the scene--it’s a Friday night, and your date just canceled. You’re bummed, maybe a little hurt.
Read More »Not So Fast: Independent Measurement Shows Neutrinos Don t Exceed Speed of Light
The proton beam at CERN that produces the neutrinos detected at ICARUS and OPERA. Credit: CERN Albert may still be right. An attempt to repeat an experiment that showed a subatomic particle traveling faster than the speed of light suggests that the earlier result may have erred, and that Einstein s famed special theory of relativity remains intact.
Read More »U.S. Government OKs Limited Sea Lion Killings
By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The U.S. [More]
Read More »Raising Darwin’s Consciousness: An Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Mother Nature
Click here for Part Two: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Evolutionary Lessons of Motherhood
Read More »How Packaged Food Makes Girls Hyper
The chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, has become familiar in the past decade, notably to parents searching for BPA-free bottles for their infants.
Read More »Broken Wind Turbine? Call the British Armed Forces
By Drazen Jorgic LONDON (Reuters) - Expanding renewable energy businesses short on engineers could set their sights on ex-servicemen whose skills are seen as surplus to requirements in Britain's austerity drive. The wind power sector is being held back by a shortage of skilled personnel and one company is already hiring army, navy and air force engineers forced on to civvy street after drastic cuts across the armed forces.
Read More »‘Significant’ Nuclear Growth Projected Despite Fukushima
By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Global use of nuclear energy could increase by as much as 100 percent in the next two decades on the back of growth in Asia, even though groundbreakings for new reactors fell last year after the Fukushima disaster, a U.N. [More]
Read More »Warm U.S. Winter Could Spur Early Corn Planting and Tree-Killing Beetles
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As much of the United States basks in summer-like temperatures, weather and climate experts said this year's warm winter could mean early corn planting, a risk of killing frost for apricots and a baby boom for tree-chomping bark beetles in the West. The winter of 2011-12 was the fourth-warmest in the 117-year record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses meteorological winter, which ended on February 29. [More]
Read More »Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled from Physical Laws
Windswept from cloud to cloud until they flutter to Earth, snowflakes assume a seemingly endless variety of shapes. Some have the perfect symmetry of a six-pointed star, some are hexagons adorned with hollow columns, whereas others resemble needles, prisms or the branches of a Christmas tree
Read More »Message Encoded in Neutrino Beam Transmitted through Solid Rock
MINERvA detector. Credit: FNAL Neutrinos are having a moment.
Read More »EPA Says Fracking Did Not Pollute Water Near Homes
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first round of tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in a small town in Pennsylvania near natural gas drilling operations had been polluted to unhealthy levels, U.S. [More]
Read More »Green Laser Erases Print
Every year, about 10 million tons of paper winds up in American landfills and incinerators, which is not only wasteful but adds CO2 to the atmosphere. Recycling helps, but even that material has to be repulped and paper-ized before you can use it to print out that recipe you’ll never make
Read More »White House Energy Strategy – "All of the Above"
Today, President Obama spoke again about the country’s need for an all-of-the-above U.S. energy strategy.
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