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District Energy Systems can reduce carbon, save money - but only if well-regulated

Is centralized heating an effective way for BC communities to reduce greenhouse gases?

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three-telescope interferometry allows astrophysicists to observe how black holes are fueled

(Phys.org) -- By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Wi-Fi Alliance announces Passpoint program to start in June

(Phys.org) -- The Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group bent on making Wi-Fi access more available more easily, has announced that it will begin certifying devices and hot-spot providers (using the Hotspot 2 definition) starting next month ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Green homes use 80 per cent less energy

Clever, inexpensive design can cut the energy used in new homes by up to 80 per cent, says a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Geologic map of Jupiter's moon Io details an otherworldly volcanic surface

More than 400 years after Galileo's discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter's largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University (ASU) has produced the first complete global geologic map ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Health uncertainties torment Japanese in nuke zone

(AP) -- Yoshiko Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects, she warns her daughters: Never have children.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Contamination of La Selva geothermal system in Girona, Spain

Monitoring the construction of wells, avoid over-exploiting cold groundwater close to hot groundwater, and controlling mineral water extraction. These are the recommendations from the Polytechnic University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small-scale soil studies provide big benefits

When it comes to studying microbial communities in soil, the smaller the sample, the better. Only by approaching the scale at which microbes interact and function, the micron scale, can scientists understand ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Conservation risk highest off coasts of Canada, Mexico, Peru and New Zealand: research

University of British Columbia researchers have identified conservation "hot spots" around the world where the temptation to profit from overfishing outweighs the appetite for conservation.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Time of year important in projections of climate change effects on ecosystems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does it matter whether long periods of hot weather, such as last year's heat wave that gripped the U.S. Midwest, happen in June or July, August or September?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's most extreme deep-sea vents revealed

Scientists have revealed details of the world's most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, 5 kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Chile brings fires under control as probe expands

Firefighters reported progress Wednesday in bringing under control wildfires in southern Chile that have destroyed about 45,000 hectares (112,000 acres) as a special prosecutor began investigating the source ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery of a 'dark state' could increase maximum theoretical efficiency of solar cells from 31 to 44 percent

The efficiency of conventional solar cells could be significantly increased, according to new research on the mechanisms of solar energy conversion led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Thermotherapy rids azaleas of deadly fungal disease

Azalea web blight, caused by a species of the plant pathogen Rhizoctonia, occurs each year on some containerized azalea cultivars during nursery production, particularly in the southern and eastern United ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Coral reefs in warming seas

Disease outbreaks are often associated with hot weather. Because many bacteria typically multiply more rapidly in warmer conditions, it's a commonly held notion that warm-weather outbreaks are a straightforward consequence ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0