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Water practically flies off 'near perfect' hydrophobic surface that refuses to get wet
Engineering researchers have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. Water droplets skitter across it like ball bearings tossed on ice.
It's who you kill that matters, according to new research
A defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a "high-status" victim, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology...
World's Largest Dead Zone Suffocating Sea
Oxygen-sucking algae are blooming in the Baltic due to farm fertilizers and overfishing—and new efforts to stop the disaster may be too late, experts say.
Warm weather sparks allergies
The winter cold and flu season may be drawing to a close, but many people in the Ottawa region won't be able to put away the tissues. The rapidly melting...
Disposal of spilled coal ash a long, winding trip
(AP) -- More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history, the problem is seeping...
Canadian Budget Light on New Research Dollars
Relief was the order of the day for Canadian scientists on Thursday as the... [Read more]
Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies
(AP) -- It's the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away. A pro-privacy group warns in a new...
Monuments monitored from a distance
A team of engineers in Spain has created a system for monitoring historical monuments by remote control and detecting possible damage. Five years ago the researchers placed various sensors on...
Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits
Legislators called for the Environmental Protection Agency to give Congress time to pass comprehensive measures on energy and climate change.
Chile aftershocks could go on for years: scientists
Chileans will be feeling aftershocks following last week's 8.8-magnitude earthquake for months and possibly years, scientists said Friday, as three strong tremors rocked the country.
To save paper, Chinese delegates get free laptop
China has spent 10 million yuan (1.5 million dollars) on computers for thousands of members of an advisory body attending the annual parliamentary session -- in an effort to reduce...
The marriage of science and rainmakers
Kenyan meteorologists are joining forces with traditional rainmakers to deliver communities weather forecasts as climate change takes hold.
Warming data said stronger than IPCC claim
LONDON, March 5 (UPI) -- Evidence of manmade global warming is stronger than the besieged U.N. climate panel claimed, with rainfall changes altering the Earth, British scientists said.
Key To The Past, Key To The Future
Key To The Past, Key To The Future This article is a brief overview and history of geochronology. There are many things in nature that tend to grow in layers. Over the...
Climate sceptics guilty of double standards in condemnation over data | Bob Ward
Global warming thinktank has made exactly the kind minor factual error that would have been seized on by scepticsSome climate change sceptics have been guilty of applying double standards in their condemnation of...
Challenging EPA On CO2
Republicans in Congress want to block EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Met Office ends season forecasts
The Met Office stops publishing seasonal forecasts after it came in for criticism for failing to predict extreme weather.
GE filters mine water for reuse
SCHENECTADY, N.Y., March 5 (UPI) -- General Electric announced its new filtration membranes and water treatment technology would reduce the freshwater demand at a Virginia coal mine.
Soros joins U.N. green financing effort
UNITED NATIONS, March 5 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a panel of philanthropists to mobilize financing to help developing nations fight climate change.
Russian hydropower facility to churn
MOSCOW, March 5 (UPI) -- A section of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower station in Russia destroyed in August starts operating at 20 percent by March 20, officials said.
Emirati pipeline network avoids key strait
TEL AVIV, Israel, March 5 (UPI) -- The United Arab Emirates aims to build a network of oil and gas pipelines to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, a key...
Drought extinguishes Venezuela's lightning phenomenon
Lake Maracaibo left in darkness as drought caused by El Niño disrupts weather patterns that cause constant lightning stormsDarkness rarely lasted long in the skies over Lake Maracaibo. An hour after dusk the...
First micro-insurance plan uses mobile phones and weather stations to shield Kenya's farmers
As East Africa recovers from the worst drought in decades, an innovative program launched today will use a low-cost, mobile phone payment and data system, and automated, solar powered weather...
Interior to announce sage grouse finding Friday
(AP) -- The Interior Department plans to announce whether it will pursue endangered species protection for sage grouse, a decision with major ramifications for the West's renewable energy and...
Waste could generate up to 7 percent of electricity in Spain
Researchers have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity in Spain. These residues are alternative sources...
For California vintners, it's not easy being green
"Green" labels do not pack the same wallop for California wines that they do for low-energy appliances, organically grown produce and other environmentally friendly products, but it's not because there's...
Roundup 3/4: Chew on This Edition
The White House Council on Environmental Quality today released a roadmap for improving federal... [Read more]
Intel Expands Intel Atom Processor-Based Platform to Home, Small Office Storage Device
Intel Corporation today launched its first Intel Atom processor-based platform optimized for networked home and small office/home office (SOHO) storage devices.