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NREL Uncovers Clean Energy Leaders State by State

NREL Uncovers Clean Energy Leaders State by State

Technology / Energy

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- That California and Texas still lead the United States in generating renewable energy probably is no surprise. But, NREL's 2009 State of the States report shows that several smaller states ...


Eco-friendly building techniques don't have to significantly raise construction costs

Technology / Energy

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Home builder Lance Schmidt hears it all the time: Green building costs more. But he and his colleagues are out to prove otherwise.


Hunting for Planets in the Dark

Hunting for Planets in the Dark

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

A proposed space mission that aims to measure dark energy could also detect planets that current surveys are unable to find.


Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Technology / Energy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Automakers around the world continue to slowly infuse their cars and trucks with greener, more efficient technology, but researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute contend that technology alone will not ...


Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest

Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is ...


Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games (AP)

Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 6

(AP) -- A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels.


Colorado county copes with methane mystery (AP)

Colorado county copes with methane mystery

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 7

(AP) -- Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high.


Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic

Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from ...


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


Researchers complete draft genome sequence for cassava

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of academic, government and industry researchers has completed a first draft of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) genome. The project is an important first step in accelerating the pace of research on this subsistence ...



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