Young Dragonfly could soon be the aquatic version of the canary in a coalmine, a researcher said in a published report on Sunday.
Just as the singing birds were used by miners to warn them of toxic air, young dragonflies that live in reservoirs and ponds hold the potential of alerting humans to water pollution, The [...]
Ever thought the curtains in your house are not bright enough? Researchers at MIT have created designs for flexible photovoltaic materials, known as solar textiles, that can also be draped as curtains, which may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy.
According to a report in Science Daily, these new materials work like the now-familiar [...]
The closing of the ozone hole over Antarctica has positive implications for the southern hemisphere as well as global climate in general.
“The ozone layer is a thin layer of ozone in the atmosphere, 10 - 50 kilometres above the earth.”
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If ever there was a successful international agreement, it was the Montreal Protocol on Substances that [...]
Scientists are close to overcoming a major problem in the path of hydrogen cars — storing the gas in a viable form.
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It is touted as the stone that could kill two birds. Hydrogen gas, if tapped as an energy source, could help address the earth’s depleting fossil fuel reserves as well as the accumulation of [...]
Increasing carbon dioxide emissions could leave species such as coral and sea urchins struggling to survive by the end of the century because they are making the oceans more acidic, research led by British scientists suggests.
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The study of how acidification affects marine ecosystems has revealed a striking impact on animal and plant life. The findings, [...]
For years, sensitive measuring devices have confirmed that the earth — as well as all life — radiates as a natural process, and that this radiation can be affected by underground water sources and earth dislocations.
There are also zones where radiation intensity differs greatly from the norm.
Much information can be gleaned from an examination of [...]
Scientists are pondering over the problem of man inadvertently carrying microbes to space:
Artist’s impression of the Phoenix Lander
If man has charted his way into space, can microbes be far behind? Life in outer space indeed seems an absolute certainty, given that ever since the beginning of the space age scientists have sent more than just [...]
A new research program in the US is finding ways of making asphalt more environmentally sustainable.
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Called the Asphalt Research Consortium (ARC), the research program is the Federal Highway Administration’s first major consortium to improve asphalt technology since the Superpave effort of the early 1990s.
According to University of Wisconsin-Madison civil engineering professor Hussain Bahia, more than [...]