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Making nature's best better to produce biofuels

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no enzymes to digest it, does it break down?

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How do you fight fire in space? Experiments provide some answers

Improving fire-fighting techniques in space and getting a better understanding of fuel combustion here on Earth are the focus of a series of experiments on the International Space Station, led by a professor ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA Goddard spacecraft cleanroom goes green

When it launches in 2014, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will give scientists unprecedented insights into a little-understood physical process at the heart all space weather. This process, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Tiny solar cell could make a big difference

How small can a solar cell be and still be a powerhouse? How about six hundred microns wide — about the diameter of a dot made by a ballpoint pen?

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Moscow 'Mars mission' ends after 520 days

Six volunteers on Friday stepped out into the outside world after spending the last one-and-a-half-years locked away in an isolation module in Moscow to simulate the effects of a return trip to Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut

Cornell professor of astronomy Steven Squyres, the lead scientist for NASA's Rover mission to Mars, has just taken the plunge as a NASA aquanaut.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The fate of the big rain

Climate change affects people both globally and regionally. Pankaj Kumar, for example, who works at the Climate Service Center and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, is investigating the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A true bargain house: First prototype built from MIT’s effort to construct houses for $1,000 each

Home prices in many of the world’s most famous cities run to well over $1,000 per square foot. By contrast, MIT architects have produced a decidedly more affordable alternative: the first prototype from ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

New LROC images offer sharper views of Apollo 12, 14, 17 sites

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Arizona State University team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has released the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Panasonic turns on OLED lighting roadmap, announces record efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japan-based Panasonic Electric Works (PEW) has announced an aggressive roadmap to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) lighting a part of the not so distant future. The company has said ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report


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