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New Study: Home Energy Savings Are Made in the Shade

New Study: Home Energy Savings Are Made in the Shade

Technology / Energy

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Trees positioned to shade the west and south sides of a house may decrease summertime electric bills by 5 percent on average, according to a recent study of California homes by researchers ...


Coffee cultivation good for diversity in agrarian settlements but not in forests

Biology /

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Coffee shrubs, both in themselves and because they are most often cultivated in the shade of large trees, can have a positive impact on plant and animal diversity in those parts of the landscape that are deforested and dominated ...


California study shows shade trees reduce summertime electricity use

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5

A recent study shows that shade trees on the west and south sides of a house in California can reduce a homeowner's summertime electric bill by about $25.00 a year. The study, conducted last year on 460 single-family homes ...


Shade Tree Coverage Reduces Power Costs

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 15, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An Auburn University study sheds new light on just how valuable shade trees are in reducing homeowners’ electricity bills during hot summer months.





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Aircraft that can see for themselves

Aircraft that can see for themselves (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have made two important advances in the development of unmanned aircraft capable of seeing for themselves as they fly fast and low over dangerous terrain.


You're being followed: Scientists track movement of living things

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Almost 24 centuries after the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote his book, "On the Movement of Animals," modern scientists are still struggling to understand how, why, when and where living creatures move.


DU professor advises families to refocus for holidays to ease financial tension (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Martha Wadsworth, associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver (DU), says during the holidays families should focus on what has been proven to matter most in psychological research - quality family time.


Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the Mid-Atlantic

Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the Mid-Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The coastal low, formerly known as Ida, is currently quasi-stationary off the North Carolina coast, adding more rain on top of what it has already brought. The low is creating serious flooding from northeast ...


A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tom Parker has made an unusual find. In California forests and shrubland that burned in 2008, he has spotted Manzanita seedlings sprouting in tight clusters, suggesting that the young shrubs emerged from underground ...


Shape of things to come: Structure of HIV coat could lead to new drugs

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Structural biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have described the architecture of the complex of protein units that make up the coat surrounding the HIV genome and identified in it a "seam" of functional ...


Cornell releases predator beetle to battle hemlock pest

Cornell releases predator beetle to battle hemlock pest

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers released a well-studied beetle predator to test its ability to ward off a hemlock-killing aphid-like insect.


Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...


Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Congo Basin -- with its massive, lush tropical rain forest -- was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana. The Congo Basin was ...


This smart wheelchair has laser vision

This smart wheelchair has laser vision

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...



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