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Black Carbon a Significant Factor in Melting of Himalayan GlaciersThe fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few scientists have attempted to rigorously examine and quantify the causes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Surabi Menon set out to isolate the impacts of the most usually blamed culprit-greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide-from other particles in the air that appears to be causing the melting. Menon and her collaborators observed that........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 2/4/2010 8:15:42 AM)
Toward safer plasticsResearchers have published the first report on a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers the source of long-standing human health concerns from migrating from one of the most widely used groups of plastics. The advance could lead to a new generation of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics that are safer than those now used in packaging, medical tubing, toys, and other products, they say. Their study is in ACS' Macromolecules, a........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 2:29:43 PM)
Reverses paralysis with a beam of lightIn an advance with overtones of Star Trek phasers and other sci-fi ray guns, researchers in Canada are reporting development of an internal on-off "switch" that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam of ultraviolet light. The animals stay paralyzed even when the light is turned off. When exposed to ordinary light, the animals become unparalyzed and wake up. Their study appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). It reports........Go to the Chemistry-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 2:28:32 PM)
Pyrethroid insecticides are winding up in California riversPyrethroids, among the most widely-used home pesticides, are winding up in California rivers at levels toxic to some stream-dwellers, possibly endangering the food supply of fish and other aquatic animals, as per a newly released study by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Southern Illinois University (SIU).
Pyrethroid insecticides, usually used in California to kill ants and other insect pests around the home, have........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 7:56:00 AM)
New light on our earliest fossil ancestryDecaying corpses are usually the domain of forensic scientists, but palaeontologists have discovered that studying rotting fish sheds new light on our earliest ancestry.
The researchers, from the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester, devised a new method for extracting information from 500 million year old fossils -they studied the way fish decompose to gain a clearer picture of how our ancient fish-like ancestors would have........Go to the Archeology-blog (Added on 2/1/2010 7:56:21 AM)
Feul from biomassA collaboration led by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass. Deploying the tools of synthetic biology, the JBEI scientists engineered a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria to produce biodiesel fuel and other important chemicals derived from fatty acids.
"The fact that our microbes can produce a diesel fuel........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 1/28/2010 8:10:17 AM)
Congo receives help from spaceOn 2 January, Mount Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, spewing lava from its southern flank and raising concerns that the 100 000 people in the town of Sake could be under threat.
Fears were also triggered in Goma as rumours circulated that an eruption was imminent at the nearby Nyiragongo volcano, which devastated the city in 2002.
Following the eruption, researchers and local authorities have been using a long........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 1/25/2010 8:19:08 AM)
How 'random' lasers workWhen University of Utah researchers discovered a new kind of laser that was generated by an electrically conducting plastic or polymer, no one could explain how it worked and some doubted it was real. Now, a decade later, the Utah scientists have found these "random lasers" occur because of natural, mirror-like cavities in the polymers, and they say such lasers may prove useful for diagnosing cancer.
"Nobody knew how it worked until now,"........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 1/25/2010 8:02:56 AM)
Sony TransferJet TechnologyMove over Bluetooth, Sony is about ready to release a new technology that supposedly does everything Bluetooth promised only without the complication of recognizing like devices security difficulties.
Calling it TransferJet, the new wireless medium will allow wireless data transfer between gadgets and Sony says consumers should expect to see it appearing in a wide variety of products real soon. However unlike Bluetooth or 80211b/g,........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 1/24/2010 11:22:15 PM)
Billie Piper Feared For SonBillie Piper feared for her son"s life at Christmas.The 27-year-old actress was left terrified when Winston - her 15-month-old child with husband Laurence Fox - struggled for breath and was unable to get answers from medical experts as to what was wrong with him.She said: "We really panicked, he was having trouble breathing, I had quite a big fright with him.... they wouldn"t tell us what it was."Billie also admitted that she and Laurence are........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 1/24/2010 11:05:26 PM)
Russian ice dancersWorld champion ice dancers Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia are definitely ones to watch at the Vancouver Olympics. They have outraged some people in Australia for donning brown face and pretending to be Aboriginal. Are you offended? (via Salon)........Go to the Sports-blog (Added on 1/24/2010 10:28:20 PM)
Go easy on the environmentWhen it comes to saving the environment, Generation Y is all for it - as long as it comes with an economic benefit, as per new research by Michigan State University in collaboration with Deloitte LLP.
Based on a scientific survey of 18- to 30-year-olds, scientists from MSU's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management observed that young consumers will not pay a premium price for an automobile simply because it is environmentally friendly.........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 1/22/2010 8:12:47 AM)
Dams and changing climateCivil engineers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Seattle office have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin, the nation's largest hydropower system, could be managed for a different climate.
They developed a new technique to determine when to empty reservoirs in the winter for flood control and when to refill them in the spring to provide storage for the coming year. Computer........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 1/22/2010 8:06:51 AM)
Low concentrations of oxygen and nutrientsThe combination of low concentrations of oxygen and nutrients in the lower layers of the beaches of Alaska's Prince William Sound is slowing the aerobic biodegradation of oil remaining from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, as per scientists at Temple University.
Considered one of the worst environmental disasters in history, the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, contaminating some........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 1/18/2010 8:14:56 AM)
Organized chaos gets robots goingEven simple insects can generate quite different movement patterns with their six legs. The animal uses various gaits depending on whether it crawls uphill or downhill, slowly or fast. Researchers from Gottingen have now developed a walking robot, which - depending on the situation - can flexibly and autonomously switch between different gaits. The success of their solution lies in its simplicity: a small and simple network with just a few........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 1/18/2010 8:13:30 AM)
Jimmy Kimmel insults Leno to his faceI can"t say I will ever exactly like Jimmy Kimmel or think he"s funny-- I have personal reasons, okay!?-- but after seeing him completely slam Jay Leno on his own turf, I have to admit that this man has balls.........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 1/17/2010 10:56:30 PM)
Digital camera protective bag with built-in tripodThere are quite a few of these digital camera protective bags with built-in tripods about the place, but Brando gives it to you on the cheap. The bag is actually a hard case and there’s room inside for a small sized point-and-shoot and a little pocket for a spare battery or memory card. The tripod can swivel 360 and tilt upwards to about 45. US$1........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 1/17/2010 9:42:31 PM)
Impact of eucalyptus plantations on the ecology of riversA team from the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) are focusing their research on the study of the ecology of rivers. The person in charge is Mr Jesús Pozo. For more than twenty years this team has been trying to identify links between the ecology and functioning of rivers and the surrounding terrestrial environment because, when all is said and done, rivers are like the excretory apparatus........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 1/15/2010 8:05:41 AM)
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In the battle against global warmingResearchers in Texas are reporting that a technique used in the search for new drugs could also be used in the quest to discover new, environmentally friendly materials for fighting global warming. Such materials could be used to capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from industrial smokestacks and other fixed sources before it enters the biosphere. The newly released study appears in ACS' bi-monthly journal Energy & Fuels
Michael........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 2:30:46 PM)
Play yourself healthyA just published research experiment on inactive men with hypertension shows that just 3 months of soccer practise twice a week causes a significant fall in blood pressure, resting pulse rate, and percentage of body fat, and is more effective than the doctor's usual advice on healthy diet and exercise. Other parallel experiments on both women and men further demonstrates that a regular game of soccer affects numerous cardiovascular risk factors........Go to the Sports-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 8:22:45 AM)
Matching diplomas with jobs?Jake Murdoch spends much of his time examining how deftly graduates can match their degrees to eventual jobs. In the process, this professor at the Universit de Montral Faculty of Education has uncovered startling cultural and job market differences around the world.
Diplomas from elite universities can practically guarantee employment and salary conditions. For instance, graduates from the University of Tokyo or Hiroshima University in........Go to the Jobs-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 8:01:49 AM)
Synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage material may become less complicatedAn international team of scientists has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system.
A number of scientists have their sights set on hydrogen as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal that contain carbon, pollute the environment and contribute to global........Go to the Chemistry-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 7:53:12 AM)
Less pollution improves ear infectionsA newly released study by scientists at UCLA and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston suggests that improvements in air quality over the past decade have resulted in fewer cases of ear infections in children.
Ear infections are one of the most common illnesses among children, with annual direct and indirect costs of $3 billion to $5 billion in the United States.
"We believe these findings, which demonstrate a direct connection between........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 1/29/2010 8:21:45 AM)
Diamond is one tough cookieMost people know that diamond is one of the hardest solids on Earth, so strong that it can easily cut through glass and steel.
Surprisingly, very little is known about the strength of diamond at extreme conditions. But new research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers shows that diamond becomes even stronger during rapid compression.
Using the Janus laser at LLNL and the Omega laser at the University of Rochester,........Go to the Technology-blog (Added on 1/27/2010 8:24:58 AM)
Luck Has Nothing to Do withFaced with a fly ball soaring deep into center field during the 1954 World Series, New York Giants center fielder Willie Mays turned his back on the ball, ran straight to the center field fence and caught the ball over his shoulder.
"The Catch" is among the best-known images in all of sports.
How did Mays do it? Did he predict where and when the ball was going to land just from seeing it hit? How does any outfielder actually catch a fly........Go to the Sports-blog (Added on 1/25/2010 8:17:09 AM)
Cypripedium candidumLindsay is responsible for organizing today"s entry. Lindsay writes
Thank you to Kathleen Garness for submitting today"s photograph and write-up to help continue the Botany Photo of the Day series on biodiversity success stories. Kathleen is part of Chicago Botanic Garden"s Plants of Concern program, and Cypripedium candidum is one of the species she monitors. Kathleen writes
Commonly known as white lady"s slipper, Cypripedium candidum........Go to the Botany-blog (Added on 1/24/2010 11:35:40 PM)
Birds On A GuitarFrench artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot created a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments.As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.(thanks Cora)........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 1/24/2010 10:59:22 PM)
Tupperware Turf WarThe Real Housewives of Orange County is back tonight, and hopefully this episode will make up for last week"s somewhat dull offering. It certainly seems promising, what with Alexis bearing her claws (fun fact: her claws have fake boobs too) at some random lady for allegedly getting too close to husband Jim (who we all know is a huge chick magnet, what with his movie star looks). Cat fights are always wonderful, especially when they"re........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 1/24/2010 10:02:26 PM)
Ask the non-expertsNon-expert is not often a term that one would associate with scientific research, but it could become a new trend in psychology research. Some recent studies have begun to rely on non-expert students to observe and provide data during experiments.
In a research project about early autism detection in infants, Dr. Daniel Messinger, an associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami (UM), and........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 1/22/2010 8:11:06 AM)
Last Decade was Warmest on RecordA new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA researchers finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record.
Eventhough 2008 was the coolest year of the decade because of a strong La Nina that cooled the tropical Pacific Ocean, 2009 saw a return to a near-record global temperatures as the La Nina diminished, as per the new analysis by NASA's Goddard........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 1/22/2010 8:02:52 AM)
A computer per student leads to higher performanceA dozen years into the "1 to 1" computing movement's push to pair every schoolchild and teacher with a laptop, studies show the students in these programs outperformed their peers in traditional classrooms, as per researchers.
Students who have participated in 1:1 computing report higher achievement and increased engagement, as per findings of studies published in a special issue of the Journal of Technology, Learning and Evaluation,........Go to the Media-blog (Added on 1/22/2010 8:01:20 AM)
Couroupita guianensisAnother set of photographs and write-up from UBC Botanical Garden"s Eric La Fountaine today, featuring a species previously on BPotD (but in flower): Couroupita guainensis. Eric writes
The cannonball tree has one of the most appropriate common names of any plant I know. Not often seen outside its native range, northern South America and southern Central America, it is grown as a sacred plant in Hindu temples in India and as an oddity in........Go to the Botany-blog (Added on 1/17/2010 11:40:28 PM)
Start Planning Now for Mardi Gras© DoctorWh
Fat Tuesday is only a little over six weeks away. Have you booked your trip to the Big Easy yet?........Go to the Entertainment-blog (Added on 1/17/2010 10:56:52 PM)
Open Community for Medical GeneticsA new initiative called EUROGENE is an open community portal which provides a vast amount of multimedia educational materials in the field of genetic medicine. Authors and educators can freely use it to publish and organize their own materials or to create new teaching courses. There are now almost 90,000 content units on the site........Go to the Science-blog (Added on 1/17/2010 10:14:57 PM)
A modern weapon against global warmingResearchers are reporting that "biochar" a material that the Amazonian Indians used to enhance soil fertility centuries ago has potential in the modern world to help slow global climate change. Mass production of biochar could capture and sock away carbon that otherwise would wind up in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Their report appears in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology, a bi-weekly journal.
Kelli........Go to the Geography-blog (Added on 1/14/2010 8:23:04 AM)
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