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Hubble views grand star-forming region

(PhysOrg.com) -- This massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NRL designs robot for shipboard firefighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Firestorm of star birth in Galaxy Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reproductive problems, death in animals exposed to fracking

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report has found dozens of cases of illness, death and reproductive issues in cows, horses, goats, llamas, chickens, dogs, cats, fish and other wildlife, and humans. It says these conditions could be ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Bright is the new black: New York roofs go cool

On the hottest day of the New York City summer in 2011, a white roof covering was measured at 42 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the traditional black roof it was being compared to, according to a study including NASA scientists ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Poland to nix EU's 2050 climate targets: report

Poland is threatening to veto European Union 2050 targets for emissions reductions at a Friday meeting of the bloc's environment ministers in Brussels, a Polish media report said Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Giant new plant shows coal power isn't going away

The Prairie State power plant, set amid farm fields and woods in southwestern Illinois, will start producing power soon, beginning a life of burning local coal that's expected to last until at least the 2040s.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 13

Nanotrees harvest the sun's energy to turn water into hydrogen fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Alternative-energy innovations on display

Climate change is in dispute. Oil and gas are staging a comeback. Republicans are questioning federal funding for energy research as a waste of money in a time of deficits.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New way to measure nitrous oxide emissions

(PhysOrg.com) -- An accurate new way to measure a potent greenhouse gas emitted during agricultural production will help countries to better manage their environmental impact, thanks to Queensland University of Technology ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New methods for better purification of wastewater

Before wastewater reaches recipient waters, nutrients must be removed in order to avoid eutrophication and large algal blooms, which may result in serious damage to animal and plant life. Robert Almstrand at the University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fuel for thought

Like a lot of economists, Christopher Knittel entered college with career plans in mind. Unlike a lot of economists, Knittel had plans that involved baseball. At California State University at Stanislaus, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers challenge study on hydrofracking's gas footprint

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study's contention that hydraulic fracturing would be worse for climate change than burning coal is being challenged by another study, also by Cornell researchers.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

BP settlement over US spill will not end legal drama

Oil giant BP's agreement of a $7.8 billion settlement for victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill will not end its legal headaches or erase the disaster for some US southern coast residents.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Polish report: shale gas extraction not harmful

(AP) -- A scientific study in Poland has found that shale gas extraction at one site produced some toxic refuse but that the waste was reused and didn't harm the environment.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1