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Feds release Calif. plan to protect chinook salmon

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal fisheries regulators on Thursday released a court-ordered plan to help struggling chinook salmon that includes opening California dams and restricting pumping, which would reduce the amount of water available ...





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U.S. scientists develop better heat pump

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 18, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (15) | comments 0

U.S. homeowners might soon see their electric bills decreasing thanks to an integrated heat pump system developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.


Magnetic Snake

Magnetic Snakes Create Water Current

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory have found that magnetic particles suspended in water and subjected to an alternating magnetic field will form snake-shaped structures that can control the flow of ...


Longfin smelt not endangered in California, regulators say

Space & Earth / Environment

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

Longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay-Delta do not warrant protection under the federal endangered species law, regulators said Wednesday.


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Swedish hi-tech 'snake' blazes trail to safer firefighting

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Firefighting, arguably one of the world's most dangerous jobs, is about to get a lot safer thanks to a revolutionary technique developed in Sweden.


Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero

Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero

Technology / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...


Explosion on chip sets liquid in motion

Explosion on chip sets liquid in motion

Chemistry /

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- PhD student, Dennis van den Broek, of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a new type of miniature motor, the micro-bubble actuator. This ‘motor’, which can be used in laboratories ...


It's The Water: Beijing Olympic Swimmer Provided State-of-Art ProMinent Ozone Technology

It's The Water: Beijing Olympic Swimmer Provided State-of-Art ProMinent Ozone Technology

Technology / Other

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (28) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As Olympic records are being broken left and right by Michael Phelps, questions have been raised do we have a performance enhancing water issue. Some attribute the gold hanging around Olympiad ...


Complex ocean behavior studied with 'artificial upwelling'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 6

A team of scientists is studying the complex ocean upwelling process by mimicking nature – pumping cold, nutrient-rich water from deep within the Pacific Ocean and releasing it into surface waters near Hawaii that lack the ...


Scientists Test 'Artificial Upwelling' to Learn More About Complex Ocean Ecosystem Behavior

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists is studying the complex ocean upwelling process by mimicking nature – pumping cold, nutrient-rich water from deep within the Pacific Ocean and releasing it into surface waters near Hawaii ...


Mayfly nymph

Mayfly-Mimicking Sensor Could be High Tech 'Canary in the Coal Mine'

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jun 21, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Security, health and safety sensors in coal mines, buildings or underground public transit areas where air or water does not readily flow may one day be improved by research on young mayflies at the University ...



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