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Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...


This is your brain on fatty acids

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Saturated fats have a deservedly bad reputation, but Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that a sticky lipid occurring naturally at high levels in the brain may help us memorize grandma's recipe for cinnamon buns, as ...


Nuclear weapons: Predicting the unthinkable

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go? According to physicist Fernando Grinstein, we have some initial understanding to address ...


Obama team: US needs bill to lead in clean energy (AP)

Obama team: US needs bill to lead in clean energy

Technology / Energy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Obama administration warned on Tuesday that the U.S. could slip further behind China and other countries in clean energy development if Congress fails to pass climate legislation, as early signs ...


New type of supernova explosion reported; predicted by theoretical physicists at UCSB

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their t ...


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Germany, Mexico, US top smart energy list

Technology / Energy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Germany, Mexico and the United States have crafted some of the world's smartest policies for improving energy use, according to a study released on Thursday on the sidelines of the UN climate talks here.


Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .


Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 62

Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish ...


Hunting for new zeolites

Hunting for new zeolites

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to computations ...



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