Does the term “Carbon capture and storage” ring a bell in your mind? Wikipedia defines it as a “technology attempting to prevent the release of large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere from fossil fuel use in power generation and other industries by capturing
An experiment done in May 2012 by an international research team constituting researchers from Austria, Canada, Germany and Norway, set a new distance world record in quantum teleportation. The distance across which they were able to reproduce characteristics of a
Recent research testifies archeological records of droughts in Ancient Egypt during the demise of Egypt’s old kingdom, the era known as the pyramid-building time. A study of ancient pollen and charcoal preserved in deeply buried sediments in Egypt’s Nile Delta provides
A new study published in Scientific Reports – Nature last week said that genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Researchers concluded that artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima
America's Pacific Northwest has a 37% chance of being hit by a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 50 years, a new study shows.
That's more than double previous estimates of a 10-15% risk. Great Subduction Zone earthquakes are the largest
A team of researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., has found radiation from protons could further enhance a process that occurs during tumor progression. This information may help lead…
For years Americans have been told that marijuana should remain illegal because it is the ultimate “gateway” drug – that is, the drug that most often leads to the abuse of other, more potent drugs.Not so, according to a new study which says alcohol – not marijuana –
A portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown – an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms.Thinking SCI-FI? Well, read on.NASA-funded researcher and plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of
Called the PDG for short, the 2012 edition of The Review of Particle Physics runs to over 1,400 pages in print and will be mailed in July to over 16,000 subscribers, with a condensed, 320-page Particle Physics Booklet to follow in September. However, the online
The first remote-sensing soil moisture data record spanning the period 1978 to 2010 – a predecessor of the data now being provided by ESA’s SMOS mission. The datasets are available to the science community for feedback analyses and climate model validation.The
