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Vladimir Putin has been given a sample of the mysterious water of Lake Vostok, now back in Russia. They have the first sample of water from Lake Vostok and scientists are now heading back to Russia. They won't be back in Antarctica until next Summer, but there will be ... keep reading
Written by Celsias yesterday, about Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Water
In Pakistan, the annual mean surface temperature has been consistently rising trend since the beginning of 20th century. The rise in mean temp. has been of 0.6-1.0°C in arid coastal areas, arid mountains and hyper arid plains, and there has been a 10-15% decrease in both winter ... keep reading
Written by Naseem Sheikh this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Education, Emissions, Energy Saving, Lifestyle & Behavior, Recycling, Transport
An expedition by scientists from the University of Aberdeen and NIWA has unearthed supergiant amphipods. These dwarf the standard 2-3cm deep sea amphipod. The supergiants found were both the biggest specimen ever caught and the deepest they had been found.They are more than 20 times larger than their smaller ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this week, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
Higher education is becoming cheaper and more accessible. With an internet connection users can watch TED lectures or look up academic papers. Now Udemy.com, a website that tries to, “disrupt and democratize the world of education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online,” is making things even easier ... keep reading
Written by Sam McNerney this month, about Education, Lifestyle & Behavior
Scientists have developed and implanted into a living insect — the False Death's Head Cockroach — a miniature fuel cell that converts naturally occurring sugar in the insect and oxygen from the air into electricity. They term it an advance toward a source of electricity that could, in principle, be collected ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Design, Education
NYU’s Educating for Sustainability Lecture: with the Carnegie Institution’s Ken Caldeira, Feb. 14 “Geoengineering Earth’s Climate: Crazy or Necessary?" WHO: Ken Caldeira, Climate Scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Energy, based at Stanford University WHAT: Public lecture: “Geoengineering Earth's Climate: Crazy ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environmental Disasters, Events
Alcohol is one of the most addicting substances on Earth. Alcoholism is so prevalent and can be so disruptive to society that the United States once succeeded in banning it. Remnants of the Prohibition and America's puritanical founding can still be seen in the "blue laws" of many areas ... keep reading
Written by ENN last month, about Children and Families, Education, Food, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior
Taking inspiration from the yellow fattail scorpion, which uses a bionic to protect itself against scratches from desert sandstorms, scientists have developed a new way to protect the moving parts of machinery from wear and tear. A report on the research appears in ACS' journal Langmuir. Zhiwu Han, Junqiu Zhang ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business
Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the digital archive of the National Institutes of Health. There you’ll find thousands of articles on the latest discoveries in medicine ... keep reading
Written by Lena Groeger/ProPublica last month, about Economics, Education, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Politics & Government
The findings come from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, and they confirm what seasoned weather observers like farmers, fishermen and ranchers have long suspected; weather can cause earthquakes, if it is extreme enough. One of the severe weather patterns identified are tropical cyclones, or ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Climate Change, Education, Environmental Disasters, Weather
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