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Caltech scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...


Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought (AP)

Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.


RNA on the move

RNA on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...


Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that ...


Global study of salmon shows: 'Sustainable' food isn't so sustainable

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to the results of a three-year global study of salmon production systems. Rather than pushing for organic or land-based ...


From Greenhouse to Icehouse

From Greenhouse to Icehouse

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

A new study that reconstructed ocean temperatures from millions of years ago could provide new insight into how the Earth responds to climate change.


The KLM airplane which runs on biokerosene is seen at Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam

KLM flies world's first 'passenger flight on biofuel'

Technology / Energy

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Boeing 747, one of four engines powered by a 50-percent biokerosene mix, circled the Netherlands for an hour on Monday for what airline KLM called the world's first passenger flight using biofuel.


Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks

Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases.


How green is your house? Recycling favorite activity among Brits says new survey

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Seventy percent of households always separate their rubbish for recycling, but only 2 percent buy their energy on a green tariff, according to the early findings of a major new annual household survey, called "Understanding ...


Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...



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