Study: Cloth diapers just as bad
Cloth diapers are no better for the environment than the disposable variety, a British government study found.
Cloth diapers are no better for the environment than the disposable variety, a British government study found.
Environment
Jul 4, 2007
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Australian researchers have studied and documented the effect of the "sundried tide", a force of nature that can silently wipe out coral reefs.
Jul 4, 2007
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The ancient gray wolves of Alaska became extinct some 12,000 years ago, and the wolves in Alaska today are not their descendents but a different subspecies, an international team of scientists reports in the July 3 print ...
Jul 4, 2007
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New research led by University of New Hampshire physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron wave on metal surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications for developments in nano-optics, ...
General Physics
Jul 4, 2007
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Miniaturization is invading the world of chemical syntheses. Since typical chemical syntheses take place in several reaction steps with various separation or purification steps in between, microchemistry has almost always ...
Jul 4, 2007
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A generator that is 10 times more powerful than any other similar devices has been developed by engineers at the University of Southampton.
Engineering
Jul 4, 2007
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Technical advances over the past 50 years have allowed improved knowledge to be gained of the properties of sea water at great depths. Yet the first centimetres of the ocean remain its least well known part. They are difficult ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 4, 2007
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Freeloaders can live on the fruits of the cooperation of others, but their selfishness can have long-term consequences, reports an evolutionary biologist from The University of Texas at Austin in a new study.
Jul 4, 2007
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