Sunday, April 12, 2009

Space Station May Stay in Orbit 5 More Years

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Photo: The International Space Station as seen by the departing space shuttle Discovery. NASA From FOX News: The U.S. and major foreign pa...

Space: The Final Frontier for Cell Phones?

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From Time Magazine: (LAS VEGAS) — The vast, thinly populated expanses of the country that still lack cell phone coverage could be getting an...

A Hybrid Nano-Energy Harvester

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Photo: Nano hybrid: A dye-sensitized solar cell (top) and a nanogenerator (bottom) sit on the same substrate in the new device. Credit: Xud...

Wind Turbine Imports Increase; Can U.S. Factories Catch Up?

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From McClatchy News: WASHINGTON — Manufacturing of wind turbine parts in the United States grew last year as the market for wind energy boom...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Signs Of Earliest Scots Unearthed

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From The BBC: Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland. The flints were unearthed in a pl...

'Holy Grail' Drug Can Help Scars Heal, New Research Shows

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From The Telegraph: A drug - called Avotermin - which can help scars heal, has been created for the first time, in a breakthrough described ...

Study: Biofuel Threatens Water Supplies

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From Live Science: The production of bioethanol may use up to three times as much water as previously thought, a new study finds, becoming t...

Red-Hot Research Could Lead To New Materials

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Photo: Two versions of the aerogel -- the RF-only version (left) and the mixed version (right). (Credit: Image courtesy of Missouri Univers...

Printed Supercapacitor Could Feed Power-Hungry Gadgets

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From New Scientist: A supercapacitor – a device that can unleash large amounts of charge very quickly – has been created using printing tech...

Disease In A Warming Climate

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Photo: Climate change may lead diseases such as malaria to change their geographical ranges.WHO/TDR/S.Lindsay From Nature News: Climate chan...

Research Could Lead To New Non-antibiotic Drugs To Counter Hospital Infections

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When worms (Caenorhabditis elegans) ate the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa that were raised on low levels of phosphates, unexpected large r...

Losing It: Why Self-Control Is Not Natural

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From Live Science: After dinner last night, I lost my usual self-control and ate half a box of cookies. No wonder. My self-control had been...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Standing Watch Over A Crowded Space

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From The BBC: On 10 February this year, a defunct Russian communications satellite crashed into an American commercial spacecraft, generatin...

Six Mind-Blowing Ideas

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From Cosmic Log/MSNBC: Is "life as we don't know it" closer than we think? Are microbes behind the world's biggest extinct...

7 (Crazy) Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs

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From Wired Science: You might think of nuclear weapons as just the most fearsome weapon ever invented by humans, but that would be seriously...

The Top 10 Telescopes of All Time

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From PopSci.com: A look back at the 400-year-old art of assisted sky-gazing. Humans have been looking to the heavens for as long as we have ...

Edge of Space Found

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Photo From Near Space Sciences From Live Science: Hold on to your hats, or in this case, your helmets: Scientists have finally pinpointed th...

Twin Spacecraft To Explore Gravitational 'Parking Lots' That May Hold Secret Of Moon's Origin

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Artist's concept of the STEREO spacecraft. (Credit: NASA) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Apr. 10, 2009) — Two places on opposite side...

When Life As We Know It Became Possible On Earth

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From The Independent: The mystery of how our planet's atmosphere became rich in oxygen has finally been solved. It was one of the most i...

Time To Think Hydropower

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Hoover Dam, also sometimes known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border bet...