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Smithsonian
February 2007
Virginia Morell |
Ahead in the Clouds The no-nonsense atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon helped patch the ozone hole. Now, as a leader of a major United Nations report -- out this month -- she's going after global warming.   |
Chemistry World
August 27, 2009
Tom Bond |
Nitrous oxide key ozone destroyer Nitrous oxide is the single most important manmade substance reducing ozone in the atmosphere, according to US researchers. |
Science News
February 17, 2007 |
Science Safari: Ozone Depletion and Recovery Answers to questions about ozone depletion and the recovery of the ozone hole are now easy to find by researchers, as well as the general public, through a new online index developed by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory. |
National Defense
August 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Taking a Shot at Nuclear Terrorism Cleveland BioLabs Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., has developed a radiation countermeasure, called Protectan CBLB502. When given as a single injection, as many as 80 percent of those exposed to total body irradiation could survive. |
Geotimes
May 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Natural Bumps in the Atmosphere Temperatures at Earth's surface have been rising for decades, but in the upper atmosphere, the temperature is slowly dropping. In explaining this change, scientists have focused on human-related causes -- but a new study shows that nature should not be ignored. |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2008
Sarah Houlton |
Radiotherapy Side-Effects Suppressed A new drug being developed by scientists at Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI) in the US may hold the key to protecting healthy cells from the effects of radiotherapy during cancer treatment. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Joel E. Moore |
Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface |
Salon.com
November 3, 2000
Dawn MacKeen |
Life under the hole in the sky For the people of southern Chile, ozone depletion isn't a political issue -- it's a nightmarish reality. A report from the globe's ecological future... |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2007
Gene G. Marcial |
A Defense Partner At Cleveland BioLabs The military may be the first customer of little-known Cleveland BioLabs for its radiation protection compound called Protectan or CBLB502. |
Chemistry World
May 11, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
New radioisotope bodes well for cancer treatment The isotope, terbium-161, emits a number of low-energy electrons upon decay, which should make it useful for treating small tumors. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Susan Solomon: Chemistry in the Clouds The atmospheric scientist, won the Blue Planet Prize last June for her work on the Antarctic ozone hole. The prestigious environmental award is given to two individuals or organizations every year by the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation, along with 50 million yen (equivalent to about $460,000). |
Technology Research News
January 1, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Electron pairs power quantum plan Researchers from HP Laboratories and Qinetiq plc in England have mapped out a way to manipulate a pair of very cold electrons that could eventually lead to practical quantum computers made from quantum dots, or tiny specks of the type of semiconductor material used in electronics. |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Storm on the horizon for ozone levels Summer storms can inject water vapor high into the atmosphere and trigger processes that degrade the ozone layer, say US chemists. |
Popular Mechanics
October 22, 2008
Kate Schweitzer |
On Fringe, Radioactivity is Real, But Cures are Junk Science Radiation experts give their opinion on the mad science of this television show. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Philip Yam & Kate Wong |
Updates: Whatever Happened to Natural Blood-Vessel Dilators? Also: updates on cloning mice and extinction by disease |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
Lieven Vandersypen |
Dot-to-Dot Design Researchers are connecting tiny puddles of electrons in a chip and making them compute -- the quantum way. |
Scientific American
April 2009
Philip Yam |
Updates: Whatever Happened to Melting Glaciers and Ocean Levels? New details are emerging on how the melting poles could raise ocean heights... Fingerprint science... Stem cell progress... The far side of the moon... |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2006
Simon Hadlington |
Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers. |
Technology Research News
September 10, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Electron teams make bigger qubits Making quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment requires control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Saswato R. Das |
A Crowd of Quantum Entanglements Phosphorus-in-silicon system could lead to quantum computers |
Geotimes
October 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Ozone Link to Permian Extinction New research on how ozone affects plants and their reproduction may be the key to figuring out what happened to trigger Earth's largest extinction event, which occurred around 250 million years ago. |
