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New discoveries could improve climate projections

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 7 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.


Elusive 'hot' electrons captured in ultra-thin solar cells

Physics / General Physics

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar ...


Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought (AP)

Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing ...


Vermicompost from pig manure grows healthy hibiscus

Space & Earth / Environment

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

Vermicomposting, the practice of using earthworms to turn waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer, can be an economical, organic waste management practice. During vermicomposting, earthworms and microorganisms stabilize organic ...


Climate projections underestimate CO2 impact

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (14) | comments 2

The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.


Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Staying Power: Senate Hearing Focuses On Energy Storage

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Thursday's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing featured testimony from experts about the power industry's need to develop systems capable of storing large amounts of electricity if the nation's ...


Sucking Up To Survive

Sucking Up To Survive

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

Shrink a human being down to the size of an insect, and you would no longer be able to sip lemonade from a straw. The forces that hold liquid together would simply be too great to overcome at that tiny scale.


The Meandering Channels of Mars

The Meandering Channels of Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Sinuous channels on the Martian surface may be evidence of relatively recent rainfall. Researchers plan to test this hypothesis by studying sinuous streams on Earth.


Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Researchers learn why invasive plants are spreading rapidly in forests

Biology / Ecology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Invasive plants are advancing into Eastern forests at an alarming rate, and the rapid spread has been linked by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences to forest road ...


Asian carp raises fear and loathing on Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- After nearly four decades as a fishing guide on the Great Lakes, Pat Chrysler has seen enough damage from invasive species to fear what giant, ravenous Asian carp could do to the nation's largest bodies of freshwater.



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