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New Models Yield Clearer Picture of Emissions' True Costs
Mar. 4, 2015 — New models calculate and compare the true costs of various fuels to health, climate and the environment. Viewed this way, a gallon of gas costs $3.80 more than the pump price. The social cost of a ... full story -
Experiments Support Conductivity Claims for Microbial Nanowires
Mar. 4, 2015 — Scientific debate has been hot lately about whether microbial nanowires, the specialized electrical pili of the mud-dwelling anaerobic bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens, truly possess metallic-like ... full story -
Where You Live Could Mean 'Greener' Alternatives Do More Harm Than Good
Mar. 4, 2015 — Engineers propose a new 600-ton threshold that could indicate when switching to 'low carbon' alternatives may actually increase emissions. Although regions may welcome "green" ... full story -
Amazon Deforestation 'Threshold' Causes Species Loss to Accelerate
Mar. 4, 2015 — One of the first studies to map the impact of deforestation on biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear ‘threshold’ for forest cover below which species loss becomes ... full story -
Wild Yaks: Shaggy Barometers of Climate Change
Mar. 4, 2015 — A new study finds that climate change and past hunting in the remote Tibetan Plateau is forcing female wild yaks onto steeper and steeper ... full story -
Usual Prey Gone, a Fish Survives by Changing Predictably
Mar. 4, 2015 — Without the Bahamas mosquitofish to eat, bigmouth sleepers slide down the food chain and survive on insects, snails and crustaceans. And, in so doing, sleepers’ behaviors, ratio of males to females ... full story -
NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life in Laboratory
Mar. 4, 2015 — NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample ... full story -
Grand Tree of Life Study Shows a Clock-Like Trend in New Species Emergence and Diversity
Mar. 4, 2015 — Researchers have assembled the largest and most accurate tree of life calibrated to time, and surprisingly, it reveals that life has been expanding at a constant rate. The study also challenges the ... full story -
Animal Functional Diversity Started out Poor, Became Richer Over Time
Mar. 4, 2015 — The finding refutes a hypothesis by the famed evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould that marine creatures underwent an 'early burst' of functional diversity during the dawn of animal ... full story -
Why Many Similar Species Coexist Within Complex Ecosystems, Such as Amazon Rainforest or Coral Reefs
Mar. 4, 2015 — Scientists suggest one possible answer for the enigma of stability in complex ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest or coral reefs. Many similar species coexist in these complex ecosystems without ... full story -
Vampire Bats: Who Bit Whom?
Mar. 4, 2015 — Scientists discovered a new retrovirus “fossil” found in the common vampire bat which is homologous to retroviruses in rodents and primates. The results suggest the recent circulation of an ... full story -
Solar Cells to Get Growth Boost, Price Cut
Mar. 4, 2015 — Researchers have found that growing a type of film used to manufacture solar cells in ambient air gives it a growth boost. The finding could make manufacturing solar cells significantly ... full story -
Lightning Plus Volcanic Ash Make Glass
Mar. 3, 2015 — Researchers have proposed a mechanism for the generation of glass spherules in geologic deposits through the occurrence of volcanic lightning. The existence of fulgurites -- glassy products formed in ... full story -
New Tech Could Significantly Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Mar. 3, 2015 — A provisionally patented technology could revolutionize carbon dioxide capture and help significantly reduce pollution ... full story -
Air Pollution Linked to Slower Cognitive Development in Children
Mar. 3, 2015 — Attendance at schools exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution is linked to slower cognitive development among 7- to 10-year-old children in Barcelona, according to a new ... full story -
Lasting Severe Weather Impact Found in Feathers of Young Birds
Mar. 3, 2015 — While studying a ground-nesting bird population near El Reno, Okla., a research team found that stress during a severe weather outbreak of May 31, 2013, had manifested itself into malformations in ... full story -
A New Level of Earthquake Understanding: Surprise Findings from San Andreas Fault Rock Sample
Mar. 3, 2015 — Researchers studied quartz from the San Andreas Fault at the microscopic scale, the scale at which earthquake-triggering stresses originate. The results could one day lead to a better understanding ... full story -
Understanding Electric Car 'Range Anxiety' Could Be Key to Wider Acceptance
Mar. 3, 2015 — Drivers have been slow to adopt electric vehicles due to 'range anxiety,' the fear of becoming stranded with an empty battery. This phenomenon was recently addressed in a study that aims to ... full story -
3-D Printed Parts Provide Low-Cost, Custom Alternatives for Lab Equipment
Mar. 3, 2015 — The 3-D printing scene, a growing favorite of do-it-yourselfers, has spread to the study of plasma physics. With a series of experiments, researchers have found that 3-D printers can be an important ... full story -
Step Change for Screening Could Boost Biofuels
Mar. 3, 2015 — Researchers have developed a new way of rapidly screening yeasts that could help produce more sustainable biofuels. The new technique could also be a boon in the search for new ways of deriving ... full story
- New models yield clearer picture of emissions' true costs
- Experiments support conductivity claims for microbial nanowires
- Where you live could mean 'greener' alternatives do more harm than good
- Amazon deforestation 'threshold' causes species loss to accelerate
- Wild yaks: Shaggy barometers of climate change
- Usual Prey Gone, a Fish Survives by Changing Predictably
- NASA Ames reproduces the building blocks of life in laboratory
- Grand tree of life study shows a clock-like trend in new species emergence and diversity
- Animal functional diversity started out poor, became richer over time
- Why many similar species coexist within complex ecosystems, such as Amazon rainforest or coral reefs
- Vampire bats: Who bit whom?
- Solar cells to get growth boost, price cut
- Lightning plus volcanic ash make glass
- New tech could significantly cut carbon dioxide emissions
- Air pollution linked to slower cognitive development in children
- Lasting severe weather impact found in feathers of young birds
- A new level of earthquake understanding: Surprise findings from San Andreas Fault rock sample
- Understanding electric car 'range anxiety' could be key to wider acceptance
- 3-D printed parts provide low-cost, custom alternatives for lab equipment
- Step change for screening could boost biofuels
- Mystery solved: Why seashells' mineral forms differently in seawater
- UK cities including London not as 'smart' as global counterparts
- Modeling chimp behavior? Try using laws that govern matter
- Some tropical plants pick the best hummingbirds to pollinate flowers
- In hot and cold water: The private lives of 'Hoff' crabs revealed
- Towards dust-free wood combustion
- Methane oxidation fuelled by algal oxygen production
- Family log of spring's arrival helps predict climate-driven change
- Core work: Iron vapor gives clues to formation of Earth and moon
- Munching bugs thwart eager trees, reducing the carbon sink
- Conservation organizations need to keep up with nature, experts say
- Blend of polymers could one day make solar power lighter, cheaper and more efficient
- Environment may change, but microbiome of queen bees does not
- On-board school bus filtration system reduces pollutants by 88 percent
- Norwegian mammals and birds have many different methods of surviving long, intense winter nights
- ‘Superhero vision’ technology measures European lake’s water quality from space
- Green light for the world's first intelligent oil pipelines
- Enhancing high-temperature tolerance in plants: Effective on rice and tomatoes
- Introverts prefer mountains
- How were fossil tracks made by Early Triassic swimming reptiles so well preserved?
- Cryptochrome protein helps birds navigate via magnetic field
- Sun has more impact on the climate in cool periods
- Modern logging techniques benefit rainforest wildlife
- Submarine data used to investigate turbulence beneath Arctic ice
- The biobattery: Turning sewage sludge into electricity and engine oil
- Strait of Georgia: Salish Sea seagull populations halved since 1980s
- Newly discovered algal species helps corals survive in the hottest reefs on the planet
- Wind-powered freighters
- DNA evidence shows surprise cultural connections between Britain and Europe 8,000 years ago
- Level of pollutants accumulated in the body linked to obesity levels
- Economic models provide insights into global sustainability challenges
- Embrace unknowns, opt for flexibility in environmental policies, experts say
- 'Ecosystem services' help assess ocean energy development
- Interaction of Atlantic and Pacific oscillations caused 'false pause' in warming
- World's challenges demand science changes -- and fast, experts say
- Amphibian chytrid fungus reaches Madagascar
- Pollution is driving force behind growth of nuisance algal scums linked to disease
- New NASA space cowboy successfully deploys its 'lasso'
- IPCC sea-level rise scenarios not fit for purpose for high-risk coastal areas
- 'Blue-green algae' proliferating in lakes
- Finland: Wheat harvest turned larger than oat for the first time in a century
- Suspended soils maintain rainforest ecosystems, says researcher
- Drilling ancient African lakes sheds light on human evolution
- Forest tree seeds stored in the Svalbard seed vault
- Lake Tahoe research provides new insights on global change
- Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals costs EU billions annually
- Causes of Great Lakes smelt population decline are complex
- Felling of tropical trees has soared, satellite shows, not slowed as UN study found
- Isolated wetlands have significant impact on water quality
- First direct observation of carbon dioxide's increasing greenhouse effect at Earth's surface
- New technology could make treatment of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper
- Cellular communication offers easy fog detection for roads and runways
- Learning by eye: Silicon micro-funnels increase the efficiency of solar cells
- Electric-car driving range and emissions depend on where you live
- Magnetic nanoparticles enhance performance of solar cells
- Study of atmospheric 'froth' may help GPS communications
- Climate-warmed leaves change lake ecosystems
- Researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight
- Being better problem solvers helps mountain chickadees survive at higher altitudes
- Fitting meters has immediate effect on consumers' water saving habits
- Agricultural insecticides pose a global risk to surface water bodies, researchers find
- Himalayan ice shows chemicals ban is working
- Crocodiles rocked pre-Amazonian Peru: Seven crocodile species found in single 13-million-year-old bone bed
- Yellowstone: Geysers erupt periodically because they have loops in their plumbing
- World's protected natural areas receive eight billion visits a year
- Novel pretreatment could cut biofuel costs by 30 percent or more
- Climate-change clues from turtles of tropical Wyoming
- Intelligent tree inventory detector
- Coral disease linked to a warming Atlantic
- Ocean circulation change: Sea level spiked for two years along Northeastern North America
- New NASA soil moisture mapper completes key milestone
- Great Barrier Reef corals eat plastic
- Massive amounts of Saharan dust fertilize the Amazon rainforest
- Detecting defects at the nanoscale will profit solar panel production
- International team of scientists launches fossil database
- Climate science literacy unrelated to public acceptance of human-caused global warming
- Agriculture expansion in Tanzania may greatly increase human plague risk
- Ocean acidification slows algae growth in the southern ocean
- Renewable energy obtained from wastewater
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