Sunday, May 17, 2009

Is Wind The Next Ethanol? -- A Commentary

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A picture taken in May 2001 shows the world's largest offshore windmill farm, Middelgrunden Windmill Farm, located in the Oeresund, thre...

How Sand Dunes Grow Huge

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Giant dunes in Grand Erg Oriental, Algeria. Credit: Bruno Andreotti From Live Science: Anyone who has seen giant sand dunes, the tall ones s...

The First 43 Years And Next 43 Years Of Star Trek And Our World

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From The Next Big Future: The First 43 Years from 1966 to 2009 We start just a little before 1966 (when the first show of the TV series was ...

The Future Of 5 Telescopes In Space

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(Photograph by NASA/AFP/Getty Images) From Popular Mechanics: This week has been an active one for earthlings' quest to understand the u...

Is David Attenborough Set To Reveal The Missing Link In Human Evolution?

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From The Daily Mail: The BBC has made an extraordinary new documentary, presented by Sir David Attenborough, which will reveal the discovery...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Melting Threat From West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Be Less Than Expected; But U.S. Coastal Cities At Risk

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Iceberg in Paradise Bay, West Antarctica. (Credit: iStockphoto/Micheal O Fiachra) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (May 15, 2009) — While a ...

Lessons From Earth's Most Murderous People

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This photo and caption released by Survival International on May 29, 2008, caused a stir: Uncontacted Indians in Brazil seen from the air, M...

Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing

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Color scheme: A prototype in-plane electrophoretic display consisting of 1,000 pixels. Credit: Philips From Technology Review: Turning pixe...

Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Is Now Online

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The Wolfram Alpha Search Engine is now online, and can be found here. Heavy use of the search engine has caused it to send back a message th...

Telescopes Poised To Spot Air-Breathing Aliens

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Image: The next generation of space telescopes will be capable of detecting "biosignatures" in the light from planets orbiting oth...

Sleep Can Improve Your Word Power

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From The Telegraph: Reading bedtime stories to children could help to improve their vocabulary, new research suggests. Psychologists have di...

Melting Ice Could Cause Gravity Shift

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The disintegration of the Antarctic ice sheet could cause catastrophic flooding on the east and west coasts of America. AFP From The Indepen...

Star Crust Is Ten Billion Times Stronger Than Steel

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The outer crusts of so-called neutron stars (above, a neutron star in an artist's conception) are ten billion times stronger than steel—...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Let The Planet Hunt Begin: Kepler Spacecraft Begins Search For Other Earth-like Worlds

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Artist concept of Kepler in space. (Credit: NASA/JPL) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (May 15, 2009) — NASA's Kepler spacecraft has beg...

Supercomputer Helps SoCal Prep For The Big One

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From Live Science: Very few things in life are certain. If you live in Southern California, however, rest assured that some time in the next...

Can The Grid Handle Renewables?

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Photo: LIGHTS OUT FOR THE OLD GRID? A six-month study will test the grid's ability to handle the load and fluctuation of a surge of ren...

Water Way To Travel! Super Winged Submersible That 'Flies' Through The Ocean Unveiled

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Sea for two: The Super Falcon Submersible surfaces near San Francisco following 20 years of research From The Daily Mail: Man has raced acro...

Space Shuttle Masquerades As Sunspot In New Image

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Photo : NASA's space shuttle Atlantis is on an 11-day mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The shuttle's silhou...

Is Warp Speed Possible? We Ask a String Theorist

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The Enterprise: Courtesy Industrial Light & Magic/Paramount Pictures From Popsci.com: PopSci talks to futurist Michio Kaku about the (n...

Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows

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Model of the Neanderthal man. Exhibited in the Dinosaur Park Münchehagen, Germany. (Credit: iStockphoto/Klaus Nilkens) From Science Daily: S...