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Spotting Illegal Toxic Waste From Space : TreeHugger

Image via New Scientist Digging into sites that are suspected to be toxic waste dumps is expensive and potentially dangerous to nearby water supplies, so investigators want a way to spot toxic waste before diving in. Now, they have

 

Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com

When things don’t add up, the mind goes into high gear.

 

Non-PV Solar Power
Hello, in this Instructable I will show you how to generate solar power using inexpensive solid state parts and without ...

 

Cocaine Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Addiction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine resulted in a substantial reduction in cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. The study, published ...

 

High mortality rates may explain small body size

A new study suggests that high mortality rates in small-bodied people, commonly known as pygmies, may be part of the reason for their small stature. The study, by Jay Stock and Andrea Migliano, both of the University of Cambridge, helps unravel the mystery of how small-bodied people got that way.

 

Filming photons, one million times a second

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a CMOS (semiconductor) camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will impact on all the most advanced areas of science and makes Europe the world leader in the technology.

 

Death by light: Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective. In the battle against resistant microbes, a team at the University of Münster (Germany) ...

 

The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time

In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge. Most books generally turned out to not be

 

The Athenians: Another warning from history?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson from the past, a new study suggests.

 

Black Soot Coating Himalayan Glaciers is Accelerating Melting : TreeHugger

photo: McKay Savage via flickr. The soot from diesel fumes and indoor cooking fires is a well known human health problem, but here's the broader angle on that: New research shows that black carbon emitted from older diesel engines

 

Can Nanotubes Help Your Garden Grow?

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of nanotubes, we often think of solar panels and physical science. However, it appears that nanotubes can also provide valuable help to plants as a fertilizer. Just add carbon nanotubes, say researchers at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and you can get plants ...

 

Facebook measuring the mood in the US

Facebook is tracking how happy people are in the United States. Mother's Day was predictably upbeat, according to a Gross National Happiness index graph on the popular social networking service's blog on Tuesday, but for reasons unknown people's moods evidently sank days later.

 

Draft NIST report on Cowboys facility collapse released for comment

A fabric-covered, steel frame practice facility owned by the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys collapsed under wind loads significantly less than those required under applicable design standards, according to a report released on October 6 for public comment by the Commerce Department's National ...

 

GOOD.is | Transparency Contest

Senegal: President builds $27 million statue, claims tourism profits over "intellectual rights."

Tiny bug could wipe out California's citrus trees

YouTube - Life's Gonna Suck When You Grow Up...

Sucks pretty bad right now, don't ya think?

 

Crap. Global Warming Could Reduce "Catch Potential" in Tropical Fisheries by 40% : TreeHugger

Increases in Productivity in Some Places, Decreases in Others Researchers at the University of British Columbia have looked into how climate change could affect fisheries around the world. There's no way to be certain what will happen, but using

 

Single HD Gyro Image stabilizer

This Single Hard Disk (HD) Gyro Image Stabilizer is much easier to handle and move around than my first 2 HD stabilizer ...

 

Skin Deep - Dentists See More Teeth Grinding in Stressful Times - NYTimes.com
In a faltering economy, dentists see an upturn in teeth grinding.

 

Even the Camels Are Dying - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Millions face starvation in a broad stretch of Kenya and Somalia scorched by drought.

 

Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)

NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? 'No magic--' says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center '-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water from moondust by heating it from the inside out.'

 

Color-changing roof tiles absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever stepped barefoot onto blacktop pavement on a hot sunny day knows the phenomenon very well: Black surfaces absorb the sun's heat very efficiently, producing a toe-scorching surface. In the wintertime, that can be a good thing: A dark roof heats up in the sun and helps ...

 

BPA linked to aggressive behavior in young girls, research suggests

Pre-birth exposure to a chemical widely used in plastics appears to be linked to more aggressive behavior in little girls, according to research published Tuesday by a scientist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

 

Review: Low-Budget Paranormal Activity Thrills With High-Value Horror | Underwire | Wired.com

Indie horror flick Paranormal Activity, made on an incredibly tiny $11,000 budget and hyped with clever guerrilla marketing, has been written off by some as

 

How'd They Do That?: Poison Ivy and Carbon Dioxide Studies - Boing Boing