Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Rediscovering Hydro Power

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U.S. Looks to Rediscover Hydropower as Untapped Energy Source -- Popular Mechanics From the pipes in water-treatment plants to long-forgott...
Monday, September 8, 2008

CERN News Updates -- September 8, 2008

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Proton-smashing will start at the 27-kilometer tunnel beneath Switzerland in a month. (Martial Trezzin/Keystone, via The Associated Press) C...

Hubble Crew Faces Higher Risk Of Debris Hit: NASA

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From Reuters: HOUSTON (Reuters) - The shuttle crew being dispatched to work on the Hubble Space Telescope faces a higher-than-usual chance o...

Rosetta Probe Sends Asteroid Images To Earth

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The Steins asteroid was slightly larger than first believed, at 3.1 miles in diameter, rather than 3 miles, European space officials say. (E...

Meet The Real Bionic Women

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Claudia Mitchell feels sensations in the hand she is missing thanks to an innovative surgery. Nerve Surgery Leaves Woman With Feeling in an ...

How to Navigate the Cold and Flu Aisle

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When it comes to choosing the right medicine for your cold and flu symptoms, a little knowledge can go a long way. From ABC News: Doctors Ex...

U.K. Bandwidth Problems On The Horizon

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'Tough Choices' For UK Broadband -- BBC News (Technology) The cost of taking fibre-based broadband to every UK home could top £28.8b...

Google Reigns As Most Powerful 10-Year-Old

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Google Campus From ABC News: When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity...

Global Warming Trends

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Scientists say permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a po...
Sunday, September 7, 2008

Warmth Opens Arctic Routes, Scientists Say

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From International Herald Tribune: Leading ice specialists in Europe and the United States have agreed for the first time that a ring of nav...

Deep Space Probe Completes Asteroid Flyby

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From CBS News: (AP) The Rosetta deep space probe successfully passed close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth, the European Space A...

For Sale: Moon And Mars

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If you lived here, you could sell real estate, according to one legal analysis. NASA’s Spirit rover, the current occupant and photographer h...

Why The Early Earth Didn't Freeze Solid

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From FOX News: Early in Earth's history, our solar system was a much different place. When the sun was very young, it was faint and prov...

Strange New Comet Explains Old Mystery

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This chart shows the orbital paths (looking along the plane of the solar system) for the comet 2008 KV42 as well as other objects in the out...

10 Species You Can Kiss Goodbye

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Sumatran Rhinoceros From Live Science: Think the polar bear has it bad? Here are 10 critters who are even worse off than our favorite threat...

Where Have Your Distant Relatives Lived In The World

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Putting You On The Map: The Website That Pinpoints Where Your Name Is In The World -- The Independent It Is a question that not even Google ...
Saturday, September 6, 2008

Hanna-Ike-Josephine Storm Trio Isn't An Anomaly

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Hurricanes form through an exchange of warm, humid air and cold, unstable air between the upper and lower atmosphere. From The L.A. Times Gl...

How Did Life on Earth Get Started?

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From U.S. News And World Report: On an arid outcropping of basalt in northwestern Australia, some of the oldest rocks on Earth lie exposed t...

The Incredible Journey Taken By Our Genes

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(Click To Enlarge) From The Guardian: Project maps humanity's voyage out of Africa to new continents and domination of the world Sixty t...

How Pollution In Asia Affects Everyone

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Asia Pollution May Boost U.S. Temperatures -- CNN WASHINGTON (AP) -- Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Be...