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Predicting the fate of underground carbon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the risks of leakage of potential underground carbon-dioxide reservoirs.


Going underground for a climate solution

Going underground for a climate solution

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hoping to help fix the Earth's atmosphere, Catherine Peters recently found herself 4,100 feet underground.


Carbonic anhydrase

Blood Enzyme Could Help Realize Clean Coal

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An enzyme in our blood that enables our lungs to exhale carbon dioxide could be the key to isolating carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants in order to store them safely underground. A ...


Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be generated by the carbon-dioxide (CO2) compressio ...


Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Atom smasher catches 1st high-energy collisions

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 27

(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.


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Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (45) | comments 25

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, ...


Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent (AP)

Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.


Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.


Lithium

Lithium to be extracted from geothermal waste

Technology / Energy

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will enable the valuable mineral lithium, widely used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water produced ...


Naked mole rats may hold clues to surviving stroke

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blind, nearly hairless, and looking something like toothy, plump, pink fingers, naked mole rats may rank among nature's most maligned creatures, but their unusual physiology endears them to scientists.



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