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Western governors offer greenhouse emissions plan

12 hours ago | User rating: 1.8 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

(AP) -- Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system.


Cow power could generate electricity for millions

Jul 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | pda version

Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse ...


Paying to save tropical forests could be a way to reduce global carbon emissions

Jul 23, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, new research suggests.


Meet Robo habilis

Jul 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | pda version

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has brought the dream of human-like robots closer to reality by creating a human-like arm and hand controlled by an electronic ‘brain’ modelled on the human cerebellum.


'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality

Jul 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ...


Durham scientists to tackle CO2 storage in global warming challenge

Jul 23, 2008 | User rating: 2 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists at Durham University (UK) are working on new ways of storing CO2 emissions underground to help in the fight against global warming.


Artificial Lotus Effect: Carbon nanotubes with nanoscopic paraffin coating form superhydrophobic, self-cleaning surfaces

Jul 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | pda version

Never wash your car again? Never clean your windows? These may well become reality if it becomes possible to produce the right coatings—coatings that imitate the self-cleaning effect of the lotus blossom.


Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material

Jul 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | pda version

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest ...


New chlorine-tolerant, desalination membrane hopes to boost access to clean water

Jul 22, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

A chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a team that has developed a chlorine-tolerant membrane that should simplify the water desalination process, increasing access to fresh water ...


Action needed now for Minnesota to reach goals in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2015

Jul 22, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | pda version

The state of Minnesota must act now if it wants to reach its Minnesota Next Generation Energy Act goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015, according to a team of University of Minnesota transportation ...


Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct

Jul 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s) | pda version

Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ...


Amazon powers tropical ocean's carbon sink

Jul 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | pda version

Nutrients from the Amazon River spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon capture in the deep ocean, according to the authors of a multi-year study.


Carbon dioxide laser resurfacing may reduce wrinkles over long term

Jul 21, 2008 | pda version

Carbon dioxide laser resurfacing appears to be an effective long-term treatment for facial wrinkles, according to a report in the July/August issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.


Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy

Jul 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | pda version

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.


Researchers pursue grasses as Earth-friendly biofuel

Jul 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

(PhysOrg.com) -- At a small site on the Batavia campus of Fermilab, ecologist Julie Jastrow of Argonne National Laboratory pushes the scientific frontier in a new and exciting way: She watches the grass grow.


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