When plants engage in photosynthesis , sunlight breaks apart water and CO2 to release oxygen and build plant--and people--food. It's cheap and ubiquitous but not much use for powering a home
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When plants engage in photosynthesis , sunlight breaks apart water and CO2 to release oxygen and build plant--and people--food. It's cheap and ubiquitous but not much use for powering a home
Read More »Human Waste-Powered Robots May Be Future of Machines
Today's robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or recharge as does any gadget that runs out of energy. Tomorrow's new generation of self-sustaining robots might keep going nearly forever by grazing on dead insects, rotting plant matter or even human waste. [More]
Read More »"San Diego Demonoid": you mean that dead opossum?
By night, I work as a technical research scientist, writer of papers and so on, but by day I walk the beaches of the world, looking for partially decomposed mystery carcasses and identifying them. Kidding: of course I don t, but you get the idea thanks in no small part to the Montauk Monster flap of 2008 , I ve become known as the guy who identifies weird carcasses. In fact, so many queries of this sort come in via email that I don t have time to blog about them anymore
Read More »"San Diego Demonoid": you mean that dead opossum?
By night, I work as a technical research scientist, writer of papers and so on, but by day I walk the beaches of the world, looking for partially decomposed mystery carcasses and identifying them.
Read More »Orange Rinds May Help Rid Cows of E. Coli
Name : Todd Callaway [More]
Read More »Orange Rinds May Help Rid Cows of E. Coli
Name : Todd Callaway [More]
Read More »More Than One Blow For A Concussion In Football
As you watch the Patriots and Giants smash into each other Sunday, consider this. [More]
Read More »More Than One Blow For A Concussion In Football
As you watch the Patriots and Giants smash into each other Sunday, consider this. [More]
Read More »Science Explainer: The Physics of Football [Video]
Slow-motion replays of deep passes have mesmerized fans of American football for decades. The impossibly long, steady arc of a well-thrown ball is a thing of beauty.
Read More »Russian Scientists Poised to be First to Reach Ice-Buried Antarctic Lake
At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.
Read More »Russian Scientists Poised to be First to Reach Ice-Buried Antarctic Lake
At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.
Read More »Brain Injury Rate 7 Times Greater among U.S. Prisoners
A car accident, a rough tackle, an unexpected tumble. The number of ways to bang up the brain are almost as numerous as the people who sustain these injuries
Read More »Snakes Compete for Rooftops as Floods Hit East Australia
SYDNEY, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians were cutoff by floodwaters on Saturday as heavy rain broke river banks [More]
Read More »Homeless Project Residents Drink Less If Booze Ban Is Lifted
This Sunday, millions of Americans will sit down in front of their television or computer, crack open a few beers, and watch the Super Bowl. But if those viewers live in a housing project for the homeless, that booze could get them booted back out to the street
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