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Advanced Explosives Detector Sniffs out Previously Undetectable Amounts of TNT
August 8, 2012 — With the best explosive detectors often unable to sniff out the tiny amounts of TNT released from terrorist bombs in airports and other public places, scientists are reporting a potential solution. ... > full story -
Data Storage: Keeping Things in Place
August 2, 2012 — Fluid dynamics simulations aim to better predict how air circulating in a hard disk drive perturbs the vibrating read/write ... > full story -
Air Pollution Worsening Worldwide: Cut Emissions Further, Experts Urge
August 1, 2012 — Most of the world’s population will be subject to degraded air quality in 2050 if human-made emissions continue as usual. In this ‘business-as-usual’ scenario, the average world ... > full story -
100 Years of Cosmic Rays Mystery
July 31, 2012 — Experts explain how physicists have gradually revealed the nature of cosmic rays and examines the progress being made in understanding where they come ... > full story -
Atmospheric CO2 Drove Climate Change During Longest Interglacial
July 31, 2012 — Known as the marine isotope stage 11 (MIS 11), the interglacial period centered around 400,000 years ago was the longest and possibly the warmest interglacial in the past 0.5 million years. Because ... > full story -
Asthma Is the Most Common Chronic Disease Among Olympic Athletes
July 31, 2012 — Based on data from the last five Olympic games, a study has identified those athletes with asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness. With a prevalence of around 8% they are the most common chronic ... > full story -
Tiny Airborne Pollutants Lead Double Life
July 30, 2012 — Researchers have provided visual evidence that atmospheric particles separate into distinct chemical compositions during their life cycle. Observations could have important implications for modeling ... > full story -
Soil: Contaminant Transport in the Fungal Pipeline
July 25, 2012 — Fungi are found throughout the soil with giant braiding of fine threads. However, these networks have surprising functions. Only a few years ago researchers discovered that bacteria travel over the ... > full story -
Reducing Traffic at 2008 Olympics Yielded Large Cut in CO2
July 24, 2012 — China's efforts to reduce pollution for the Beijing Olympics has enabled scientists to quantify traffic impacts on carbon dioxide emissions. New research shows Beijing's lighter traffic achieved a ... > full story -
Reducing CO2: Research Shows Chemical and Economic Feasibility for Capturing Carbon Dioxide Directly from Air
July 24, 2012 — Scientists have recently advanced the case for extracting carbon dioxide directly from the air using newly-developed adsorbent ... > full story
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