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Toshiba Just Months Away From First Fuel Cell Device : TreeHugger

Photo of Toshiba's prototype fuel cell-powered cell phone via TechOn We heard last year that Toshiba planned to launch a fuel cell-powered portable media player by late ’08. Well, we’re getting on to late ’08 and we finally have

Konarka Opens World's Largest Roll-To-Roll, Solar Photovoltaic, Thin-Film Production Plant : TreeHugger

Konarka is calling their flexible, thin-film solar material, to be made in New Bedford MA, Power Plastic. There are several layers of good news to the announcement. One is that former employees of a closed Polaroid plant are getting

Underground rainwater storage in an IBC with pumped supply

Budget pumped rainwater storage. Commercial rainwater storage can be several thousand pounds. To save money I wondered ...

Central Banks Coordinate Global Cut in Interest Rates - NYTimes.com

The world’s major central banks, including the Federal Reserve, moved together to stanch the financial crisis.

YouTube Commenters Hear Their Own Gibberish - Webmonkey

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Don't Blame Biofuels for Food Crisis | Wired Science from Wired.com
Biofuels have contributed far less to rising food prices than previously estimated, a new United Nations report's data suggests. The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 projects that biofuels production

Siren voice means she's fertile

PhysOrg.com: A woman raises the pitch of her voice during her most fertile period of the month in an unconscious boost to her femininity, according to a study published Wednesday in the British journal Biology Letters.

Researchers Moving Closer to Creating Viable Energy From Sewage

PhysOrg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- When a newly developed technology for producing hydrogen gas from biowaste is brought to commercial use – as researchers believe it can be – then it appears the world will have plenty of energy if it can just solve the stubborn shortage of sewage.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visits the impoverished camps for the men building the skyscrapers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi | World news | The Guardian

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Behind the dizzying construction boom is an army of migrant labourers lured into a life of squalor and exploitation

New pain relief that is eight times stronger than morphine - Telegraph

Telegraph Earth is your source for environmental and green news and environmental and green issues, with information on climate change, global warming, pollution, green living and recycling, and all other environment issues.

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Global Warming Disease - The Deadly Dozen Diseases Incubated by Global Warming - thedailygreen.com
The 12 diseases likely to increase because of global warming.

Ecopolis Plans Future Green Cities : TreeHugger

Image source: The Science Channel What will future cities look like? How will we feed the estimated 75% of the global population that will be living in cities by 2050? How will we transport and house and clothe all

Kiss Penguins Goodbye if the Planet Warms 2 Degrees Celsius: WWF : TreeHugger

photo: Martha de Jong-Lantink Though the jury is still out on whether global warming had anything to do with large numbers of dead penguins washing ashore in Brazil back in July, according to a report from WWF if global

Change Coming To Water Politics - Twelve US States Face Extended Drought Conditions : TreeHugger

The US Climate Prediction Center projects large areas of drought 'Persist' conditions (graphically indicated in solid brown) in Hawaii, Southern California and Nevada, in South-Central Texas, and in seven southern US states, including the Lake Lanier watershed, which currently

Prototype technology turns laptop heat into power News - PC Advisor

Thermoelectric device generates electricity - Murata Manufacturing demonstrated at the Ceatec exhibition in Japan a thermoelectric device capable of turning heat into electricity. The device could one day find a home in laptops, and other products.

Super-Efficient Free-Piston Engines Could Replace Traditional Gas and Diesel Engines : TreeHugger

Free-Piston Engines: The Future? While we wait for battery and hypercapacitor breakthroughs to allow us to go 100% electric and ditch internal combustion engines, series plug-in hybrids (electric motors turn the wheels and a gas generator kicks in when

Keeping Wary Eye on Crime as Economy Sinks - NYTimes.com
Historic crime highs have usually followed an economic crisis — a cause for concern for New Yorkers these days.

Scientist warns cash woes 'devastating' to science

PhysOrg.com: (AP) -- Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be 'just devastating' to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations.

At 2.8 km down, a 1-of-a-kind microorganism lives all alone

PhysOrg.com: The first ecosystem ever found having only a single biological species has been discovered 2.8 kilometers (1.74 miles) beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. There the rod-shaped bacterium Desulforudis audaxviator exists in complete isolation, total darkness, a lack of oxygen, and 60-degree-Celsius heat (140 degrees Fahrenheit).

Senecavirus Structure Revealed (Oh, And It Still Kills Cancer Cells 10,000 Times Better Than Traditional Chemotherapeutics) | Scientific Blogging

The Senecavirus is a "new" virus, discovered several years ago by Neotropix Inc., a biotech company in Malvern, Pennsylvania. It was at first thought to be a laboratory contaminant, but researchers found it was a pathogen, now believed to

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Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow

PhysOrg.com: Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part of the brain to another.