http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon `cages` with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at Empa have discovered that metallofullerenes are capable of forming ordered supramolecular structures with different orientations. By specifically manipulating these orientations it might be possible to store and subsequently read out information. http://www.physorg.com/news171041009.html Nanotechnology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:24:05 EST news171041009 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researchers are breaking new ground in rainforest regeneration. http://www.physorg.com/news167467141.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:40:04 EST news167467141 The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ages. http://www.physorg.com/news165754190.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:00:02 EST news165754190 A new study finds that it will take more than 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost when biofuel plantations are established on forestlands. If the original habitat was peatland, carbon balance would take more than 600 years. The study appears in Conservation Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news158927041.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:24:40 EST news158927041 (PhysOrg.com) -- Today's slumping economy and housing market may reduce, temporarily, the insistent economic forces on Washington's private forestland owners to give up the cycle of harvesting and replanting trees in favor of converting the land to other uses, such as lots for houses. http://www.physorg.com/news157645853.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:31:33 EST news157645853 Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.physorg.com/news140107960.html Biology Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:52:40 EST news140107960