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Study Suggests Cost-Effective Way to Capture Storm Runoff

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at UC Riverside have proposed a cost-effective alternative to capture stormwater runoff that could help communities suffering water shortages and reduce the amount of pollution flowing into ecologically sensitive ...





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Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors ...


Keeping Mars Contained

Keeping Mars Contained

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

When robotic spacecraft bring a sample of Mars back to Earth, scientists will need specially-designed facilities to study the samples and prevent them from escaping to the outside world.


Studying a Star Before it is Born

Studying a Star Before it is Born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first phase of a star's formation are thought to begin deep inside a natal cloud of gas and dust. In the earliest stages, material coalesces under the influence of gravity into so-called ...


Fishing the online stream

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

On West Lancaster Avenue in Wayne, Pa., local businessman Robert Lail runs what he calls "YouTube for business."


China is now the world's top producer of the solar power cells

China solar panel makers see boost from Copenhagen

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy.


No widespread impact of wind power projects on surrounding residential property values in the US

Technology / Energy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A major new Berkeley Lab report finds that proximity to wind energy facilities does not have a pervasive or widespread adverse effect on the property values of nearby homes.


Manufacturing, reinvented

Technology / Software

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the architecture, hardware and software that will enable super-agile distributed corporations capable of reconfiguring themselves on the fly. It promises to make 'made-to-order' ...


Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...


Ambulatory surgical centers may exceed performance of hospitals for certain procedures

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measuring five quality-base performance areas, an ambulatory surgical center out performed a standard hospital based surgical center in otolaryngic surgeries, according to new research in the December 2009 issue of Otolaryngology - ...


INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

Technology / Energy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research ...



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