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Read More »U.K. Government: "Climategate" No Reason to Doubt Climate Change
Yet another scientific body has jumped in to the so-called Climategate fray to dispute that the leaked documents offer any reason to doubt that human activity is warming the planet. [More]
Read More »WIMP Wars: Astronomers and Physicists Remain Skeptical of Long-Standing Dark Matter Claim
BALTIMORE--The generic line on dark matter is that nobody really knows what it is because nobody has seen it. The former claim remains basically unassailable--there are many forms dark matter could take
Read More »Street Wise: New Labs in 9 Cities to Focus on Improving Urban Life [Slide Show]
NEW YORK CITY--The Big Apple may not be as gritty today as it was even a decade ago, but it--and several other large urban areas worldwide--could benefit from a deeper examination of how it can better meet the needs of its nearly 8.4 million inhabitants .
Read More »Earth’s Mass and Motion Warps Spacetime as Einstein Said
Albert Einstein wins again. A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity
Read More »How Steve Weindel Redesigned Air Travel
Photographs Jason Madara Eight Sparks of Inspiration. .green{ color:rgb(120,180,26); font-weight:bold; } AS A GLOBE-TROTTING principal designer at architecture giant Gensler, Steve Weindel is not unfamiliar with the drudgery of air travel
Read More »Tornado tracks cut through American South
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Read More »Fire Safety: Sending a Lifeline From 1885
If you live in an apartment in a city, you most likely have a fire escape attached to your building.
Read More »Too Hard For Science? Dean Kamen Defying Gravity
A silent jetpack would be like swimming in air, but it is likely beyond the physics of thrust In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people
Read More »MIND Reviews: The Moral Lives of Animals
The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson. Bloomsbury Press, 2011 [More]
Read More »"Let’s Go for It"
Name: Arun Majumdar Title: Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy [More]
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Read More »A Cure for Age-related Macular Degeneration?
Until now, patients who suffer from one of the most common causes of vision loss have had little hope for treatment.
Read More »Cereal Killer: Climate Change Stunts Growth of Global Crop Yields
The people of the world get 75 percent of their sustenance--either directly, or indirectly as meat--from four crops: maize (corn), wheat, rice and soybeans. The world's rising population--now predicted by the United Nations to reach 10.1 billion by century's end --has been fed thanks to rising yields of all four of these crops during the past century.
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