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TwitterMelted water runs over the Greenlandic Icecap. Uriel Sinai / GettyFrom Time Magazine:When I tell other journalists that I cover the environment, I usually get the same reaction: you’re really lucky. (I’m assuming they don’t just mean because I still have a job.) After years on the back pages and the back burner, the environment has emerged as one of the major issues facing the globe today, with the attendant media attention to match.
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Is the Press Misreporting the Environment Story?
March 1st, 2009 
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February 22nd, 2009 admin Axial quadrupole nanostructures in an illustration courtesy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Two U.S. teams have developed new materials that may pave the way for ever smaller, faster and more powerful electronics as current semiconductor technology begins to reach the limits of miniaturization. Photo: REUTERS/Handout From Wired Science/Reuters:CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two U.S. teams have developed new materials that may pave the way for ever smaller, faster and more powerful electronics as current semiconductor technology begins to reach the limits of miniaturization.One team has made tiny transistors — the building block of computer processors — a fraction of the size of those used on advanced silicon chips.Another has made a film material capable of storing data from 250 DVDs onto a surface the size of a coin.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Computer Processors, Current, Dvds, Electronics, Film Material, Fraction, Illustration, Nanostructures, New Materials, Photo, Reuters Handout, Science, Scientists, Semiconductor Technology, Silicon Chips, Transistors, University Of Massachusetts, University Of Massachusetts Amherst Comments OffOh, Hubble, Can This Really Be the End?
February 19th, 2009 admin Hubble Space TelescopeFrom Wired Science:The spectacular collision between two satellites on Feb. 10 could make the shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope too risky to attempt.Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission’s risk of a “catastrophic impact” beyond NASA’s usual limits, Nature’s Geoff Brumfiel reported today, and now the problem will be worse.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Attempt, Catastrophic Impact, Hubble Mission, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Telescope, Mission Risk, Nasa, Science, Shuttle Mission, Space Junk, Two Satellites Comments OffScience Found Wanting In U.S. Crime Labs
February 6th, 2009 admin Robert Stinson, convicted of murder in 1984, was freed from a Wisconsin prison last month after tests found that bite-mark and DNA analysis did not match evidence from the crime scene. (Andy Manis/Associated Press)From International Herald Tribune:Forensic evidence that has helped convict thousands of defendants for nearly a century is often the product of shoddy scientific practices that should be upgraded and standardized, according to accounts of a draft report by the nation’s pre-eminent scientific research group.The report by the National Academy of Sciences is to be released this month. People who have seen it say it is a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on, including fingerprinting, firearms identification and analysis of bite marks, blood spatter, hair and handwriting.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Academy Of Sciences, Associated Press, Blood Spatter, Convict, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Critique, Dna Analysis, Draft Report, Firearms Identification, Forensic Evidence, Handwriting, International Herald Tribune, Manis, National Academy Of Sciences, Prosecutors, Research Group, Robert Stinson, Science Comments OffIntelligent Life Could Be Thriving On 40,000 Planets
February 5th, 2009 admin This planet, located near the centre of the Milky Way about 20,000 light years from us, is just one of the 40,000 which could be harbouring intelligent lifeFrom Daily Mail:Science’s quest to discover life on Mars has so far failed to find even one little green man.But not to worry. Aliens could be alive and well on almost 40,000 other planets.Researchers have calculated that up to 37,964 worlds in our galaxy are hospitable enough to be home to creatures at least as intelligent as ourselves.Astrophysicist Duncan Forgan created a computer programme that collated all the data on the 330 or so planets known to man and worked out what proportion would have conditions suitable for life.The estimate, which took into account factors such as temperature and availability of water and minerals, was then extrapolated across the Milky Way.Three scenarios of how life could develop were also taken into account.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Account Factors, Aliens, Astrophysicist, Computer Programme, Creatures, Daily Mail, Discover, Forgan, Galaxy, Intelligent Life, Life On Mars, Light Years, Little Green Man, Milky Way, Minerals, Planets, Proportion, Scenarios, Science Comments OffScience And The Holidays
December 26th, 2008 admin From Scientific American:From greening your Christmas tree to what oil producers could learn from the story of Hanukkah, your guide to the science of the holiday seasonRead more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Christmas, Christmas Tree, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Holidays, Oil Producers, Science, Scientific American, Story Of Hanukkah Comments Off10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
December 18th, 2008 admin From Reuters:Daily habits can affect our well-being. Here are 10 simple actions that research has shown makes people feel good.In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory, health, altruism, and our day-to-day habits affect our well-being.
Posted in Science News Tags: Altruism, Attitude, Biswas, Ed Diener, Ethicist, Find Money, Happiness, Memory Health, Philosophers, Positive Psychology, Psychologist, Psychologists, Reuters, Satisfaction, Science, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Stanford Comments OffMaking Vinegar At Home
December 9th, 2008 admin Maple Vinegar: Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot From Popsci:Turn sour old wine into a beautiful holiday gift — thanks to science. Vinegar is one of those ingredients that people don’t think of as often as they should. It is mostly just seen in salad dressings and pickles, which is a shame, because there is a whole world of flavor there just waiting to be tapped into.
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