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Fighting aliens with aliens: U.K. imports insect species to tackle invasive plant
For the first time in U.K. history, an alien species (meaning one that is not native to the area) will be let loose in the kingdom to combat the growth of another species--also introduced. ...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
For the first time in U.K. history, an alien species (meaning one that is not native to the area) will be let loose in the kingdom to combat the growth of another species--also introduced. ...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
PET project: Using organic catalysts to make more biodegradable plastics
Whereas most discarded plastic water and beverage bottles (those imprinted with a number 1 within a triangular arrow) can be recycled , the resulting second-generation plastic is generally unusable for making new plastic bottles. This is because the...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Whereas most discarded plastic water and beverage bottles (those imprinted with a number 1 within a triangular arrow) can be recycled , the resulting second-generation plastic is generally unusable for making new plastic bottles. This is because the...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Storing megawatts: Liquid metal batteries and electricity
Making aluminum requires a lot of electricity. That's because the metal bonds tightly to oxygen and it takes a lot of energy to break that bond. In essence, the process of making aluminum is a giant battery with the silvery metal being reduced to...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Making aluminum requires a lot of electricity. That's because the metal bonds tightly to oxygen and it takes a lot of energy to break that bond. In essence, the process of making aluminum is a giant battery with the silvery metal being reduced to...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Smokestash Industry: ARPA-E Seeks Breakthroughs in Carbon Capture Technology
WASHINGTON--Every second, our bodies capture carbon dioxide in our tissues, transport it via the blood, and dump it in the lungs from where it is exhaled. This unconscious process is yet another way humans contribute to the accumulation of the greenhouse...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON--Every second, our bodies capture carbon dioxide in our tissues, transport it via the blood, and dump it in the lungs from where it is exhaled. This unconscious process is yet another way humans contribute to the accumulation of the greenhouse...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Liquid Metal Battery Stores Large Amounts of Electricity
Funding from ARPA-E could allow researchers to take a liquid metal battery from a 'shot glass size cell to a pizza box cell.'...
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Funding from ARPA-E could allow researchers to take a liquid metal battery from a 'shot glass size cell to a pizza box cell.'...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Seeking Transformational Energy Technologies
[ This special issue podcast is longer than the usual 60 seconds. ]Last week, the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy held its inaugural conference in Washington, D.C.--a direct response to a growing sense that the U.S. is losing...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
[ This special issue podcast is longer than the usual 60 seconds. ]Last week, the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for energy held its inaugural conference in Washington, D.C.--a direct response to a growing sense that the U.S. is losing...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Trichodesmium : The world's most famous nitrogen fixer
Editor's Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident and scientist Jeremy Jacquot are traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a monthlong voyage to sample and study nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, among other research...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Editor's Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident and scientist Jeremy Jacquot are traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a monthlong voyage to sample and study nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, among other research...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Can Aging Nuclear Reactors Be Safe?
On Nov. 4, 2008, two divers were cleaning sludge and silt from an entry bay for water pumps that serve Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant near Oswego, N.Y.In the midst of the operation, the diver and the hose...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
On Nov. 4, 2008, two divers were cleaning sludge and silt from an entry bay for water pumps that serve Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant near Oswego, N.Y.In the midst of the operation, the diver and the hose...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Belief in the Brain
Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things---at least from the standpoint of the brain. In the first imaging study...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things---at least from the standpoint of the brain. In the first imaging study...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Does Getting Fat Protect against Fat?
Everyone knows that obesity is bad for your health. Packing on the pounds, we’re told, leads to all sorts of medical problems: high cholesterol, insulin resistance, greater risk of diabetes and heart disease. But researchers at the University of...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
Everyone knows that obesity is bad for your health. Packing on the pounds, we’re told, leads to all sorts of medical problems: high cholesterol, insulin resistance, greater risk of diabetes and heart disease. But researchers at the University of...
0 Votes | 0 comments | rss.sciam.com | 10 Mar 2010
