A carbon tax would not cause too much grief at the gas pump
A new report from the University of Michigan Energy Survey offers insight into how American consumers would react to a carbon tax.
A new report from the University of Michigan Energy Survey offers insight into how American consumers would react to a carbon tax.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 18, 2017
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Biochemical engineers at Johns Hopkins University used sequences of DNA molecules to cause water-based gels to change shape, demonstrating a new tactic to produce soft robots and "smart" medical devices that don't rely on ...
Materials Science
Sep 18, 2017
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As you watch The Walking Dead, consider the possibility that zombies are real and may be in your yard right now.
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2017
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The international Cassini mission has concluded its remarkable exploration of the Saturnian system in spectacular style, by plunging into the gas planet's atmosphere.
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2017
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Mosquitoes are brilliant at two things – bringing misery to humans and quickly spoiling all efforts to shut them down.
Ecology
Sep 18, 2017
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Using a model developed at the JRC, scientists have successfully simulated the Black Sea's long term currents, salt water content and temperature for the first time.
Earth Sciences
Sep 18, 2017
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Currently, sawmills treat sawdust as special waste that can't be put to good use. Accumulating sawdust piles in sawmills can even limit production. Risto Korpinen from Luke thinks that sawdust could be a part of the answer ...
Environment
Sep 18, 2017
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A Chinese startups appears to be following in the footsteps of SpaceX as it has lately laid out its own project of reusable space launch system. Link Space, the country's first private rocket company, has recently presented ...
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2017
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Cells can be programmed like a computer to fight cancer, influenza, and other serious conditions – thanks to a breakthrough in synthetic biology by the University of Warwick.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 18, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Sydney have dramatically slowed digital information carried as light waves by transferring the data into sound waves in an integrated circuit, or microchip.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 18, 2017
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