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Groundwater pumping leads to sea level rise, cancels out effect of dams: study

As people pump groundwater for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses, the water doesn't just seep back into the ground – it also evaporates into the atmosphere, or runs off into rivers and canals, eventually ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants

(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Roman ship carried live fish in tank

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology shows that Roman fishing ships may have used a pumping system to supply oxygenated water to an onboard fish tank. ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Wake cloaking simulated in lab - objects move through water without leaving a trace

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metamaterials researchers Yaroslav Urzhumov and David Smith, working at Duke University have built a simulation of an object that can move through water without leaving a trace and claim it's ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intrigued by NASA lunar missions in the 1990s which suggested the existence of ice within craters at the moon's poles, NASA scientist Dr. Edwin Ethridge and his team started cooking up a way ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar

(AP) -- Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Bioethanol’s impact on water supply 3x higher than once thought

At a time when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol — often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future — may consume ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Radioactive water leaked at second Japan plant

A Japanese nuclear plant leaked 1.8 tonnes of radioactive water from its cooling system, the government said, heightening safety worries as an atomic crisis continues at another plant.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

FBI, DHS dismiss report of water plant hack

US investigators have dismissed a report that computer hackers were behind the failure of a water pump at a plant in the midwestern US state of Illinois.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extremely rapid water: Scientists decipher a protein-bound water chain

Researchers from the RUB-Department of Biophysics of Prof. Dr. Klaus Gerwert have succeeded in providing evidence that a protein is capable of creating a water molecule chain for a few milliseconds for the directed proton ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Student uses pedal power to create novel machine

An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student at the University of Sheffield, has proved a huge success and is now in regular production in Guatemala, transforming the lives of rural residents.

Technology / Engineering

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Bioethanol's impact on water supply 3 times higher than once thought

At a time when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol — often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

ARS Publishes Guide for Remote Solar Water Pumps

(PhysOrg.com) -- A guide to choosing a solar water pump for remote (off-grid) applications has been published by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.

Technology / Other

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Geothermal heat pumps reduce energy costs at wastewater plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can sinking geothermal heat pumps into waste water treatment plant aeration ponds provide heating and cooling to lower the plant's energy costs?

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...

Technology / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2