(dsc.discovery.com ) Rising CO2 saps nutrients from eucalyptus leaves, putting koalas at risk, warn scientists.

(sciam.com ) Japan was rocked by a series of earthquakes today about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Tokyo that injured two, cut off power to some 2,100 homes, and left the country on high alert for possible aftershocks. The largest quake hit at 1:45 a.m. local time in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the...

(science.slashdot.org ) WmHBlair writes "Data recovered from a 400MB Seagate hard drive carried on the Space Shuttle Columbia has been used to complete a physics experiment performed on the mission in space. The Johnson Space Center sent the recovered drive to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Considering the...

(dsc.discovery.com ) An orbiting X-ray observatory spots part of the universe's missing matter.

(dsc.discovery.com ) Is a maverick scheme to soak up carbon dioxide in the oceans too risky?

Submitted by beecher to Linguistics on
From walkinthewords.blogspot.com
Verbalicious - Eating ones words Verbagious – Words that are contagious and you just can’t stop using them (like “oh my god!”) Verbixer – Mixing up your words Read Full Story

Submitted by EathGeist1 to Global Change on
From earthgeist.blogspot.com
Jon Stewart on The Daily Show ripped apart an oil industry ad showing where your gas dollar goes - producers, refineries, exploration, taxes - evidently absolutely nothing went to their record profits. Another industry ad asks and answers the question of 'Who Owns the Oil Companies? - You Do!" through pension funds, mutual funds, stock. Which is true. It didn't ask "Who controls the votes which controls the corporation?" There's two forces at work here: Democracy and Capitalism. In a... Read Full Story

Submitted by mcrowe30 to Energy and the Environment on
From croweznest.blogspot.com
A team of students, led by mechanical engineering graduate student Spencer Ahrens, has spent the last few months assembling a prototype for a concentrating solar power system they think could revolutionize the field. read more | digg story Read Full Story

Submitted by DailyDemographic to Demography and Population Studies on
From dailydemographic.blogspot.com
An interesting trend in family life, one that almost everyone knows about, is the growth in single parent families. So, it isn't much surprise to anyone that many households (60 percent in 2006) with a female householder contain children. It might be slightly more surprising to know that almost half of households with an unmarried male householder have children. Some might see this as evidence for a sudden increase in men taking custody of children in the event of divorce. It is not. No, this... Read Full Story

Submitted by starling to Cosmology on
From www.dailygalaxy.com
NASA plans to launch millions of names into space as part of the Kepler Mission to find planets in a habitable zone beyond our solar system. "This mission will provide our first knowledge of Earth-like planets beyond our solar system," Kepler Mission principal investigator William Borucki said in a news announcement.NASA will launch millions of names into space through a program aimed at encouraging public participation in space exploration. Anyone can submit their name and their home... Read Full Story

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