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Geotimes
July 2005
Sara Pratt |
Soaking in Extra Sun The amount of sunlight Earth's surface is absorbing has been increasing since the early 1990s, reversing the previous 30-year trend of "global dimming," during which surface sunlight diminished by about 5%.   |
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. |
National Defense
August 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Harnessing the Sun's Energy Through Transparent Photovoltaics Researchers here have developed a small transparent solar cell prototype that may one day capture sunlight streaming in through a window and produce enough electricity to power homes and office buildings. |
Geotimes
July 2004
Sara Pratt |
Recalculating the Warming Trend Over the past 15 years climate researchers have observed that while temperatures at the earth's surface have been quickly on the rise, the troposphere has been warming more slowly than expected. |
Chemistry World
March 1, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
World's Blackest Material Unveiled Researchers have unveiled the least shiny material ever made, a chunk of pure darkness that has the most anti-reflective coating known to science. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
Ellen Kathrine Hansen |
Denmark's Net-Zero-Energy Home With Home for Life, VKR Holding aims to bring carbon-neutral houses to the masses |
Chemistry World
September 27, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics. |
Science News
June 22, 2002 |
TimeLine: June 18, 1932 Muddy mississippi yields pearls that rival orient's... Carbon dioxide discovered in atmosphere of Venus... Cosmic rays caused by solar activity, says French physicist... |
Geotimes
December 2005
Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Chemistry World
May 28, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Chemistry World
March 22, 2007
Tom Westgate |
The Metamaterials Space Race The technology that makes invisibility shields a theoretical possibility took a major step forward with reports of a material that bends visible light away from itself. |
Technology Research News
June 29, 2005 |
Silicon light switch is electric Researchers created a small silicon device, driven by optics, that could result in faster computer chips. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2014
Jennifer Newton |
Wendy Brown: Space dust chemistry Professor Wendy Brown's research reproduces the cold and low pressures of space to model chemical reactions that occur when particles are brought together on interstellar dust grains. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Neil Savage |
Metamaterials Breakthrough Brings Invisibility Closer Negative refraction of visible light is a step toward invisibility. |
Technology Research News
December 1, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models. |
Geotimes
October 2003 |
Hydrocarbon oceans on Titan Ground-based radar telescopes finally have penetrated the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon to yield the first reliable evidence that it might have hydrocarbon oceans. |
Scientific American
September 2008
David Appell |
The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth--Maybe Researchers debate whether Earth will be swallowed by the sun as it expands into a red giant billions of years from now |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
A Chequerboard of Water Water droplets cling in flat squares and dance in round globes on a smart surface created by South Korean researchers. Exposure to light wipes away the pattern, and an alternative can be written in with no etching required. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
'Surface' to Finally Surface Microsoft partners with AT&T to bring its Surface computer online. |
Technology Research News
August 27, 2003 |
Crystal shortens infrared waves Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have found a way to make a tungsten photonic crystal emit 1.5 micron lightwaves, which are in the near-infrared, or heat range. This makes it useful for thermal photovoltaic devices, which turn heat into electricity. |
Popular Mechanics
April 3, 2008
Glenn Derene |
Microsoft Surface Is Finally Here. What the Heck Took So Long? How one company can turn a new device from breakthrough to novelty, just by sitting on it for a technological eternity. |
Chemistry World
November 19, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Watching carbon dioxide's globetrotting New high-resolution simulations depicting how local geography affects the transport of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere have been created by NASA. |
PC Magazine
December 28, 2004
Tim Gideon |
Lapinator A padded, sturdy platform that fits most laptop sizes, this product not only protects the user's lap but also keeps the computer at a reasonable temperature. |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Crystal ribbons grow on a curve Colleagues at Harvard University in the US investigated the effects of elastic stress on crystals, which is increased by growing them on a curved surface rather than a flat one. |
Technology Research News
February 9, 2005 |
Nanotubes crank out hydrogen Material made from titanium dioxide nanotubes that is 97% efficient at harvesting the ultraviolet portion of the sun's light and 6.8% efficient at extracting hydrogen from water for use as fuel could be ready for practical use in two to five years. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
John Keller |
Temperature's Rising: Designers Face Myriad Options to Cool Electronic Systems More electronic and electro-optic systems mean more electric power, and increasing heat that engineers must get rid of. Today's choices include convection, conduction, and liquid-cooling options. Tomorrow's choices will be more complex. |
