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| Hudson Plane: Out-of-Town Geese Did It [The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]Back on January 15th, US Airways Flight 1549 made that amazing water landing in the Hudson after both engines were taken out by Canada geese, which can weigh eight pounds each. Now scientists have used forensic techniques to clear local geese--the perpetrators were out-of-towners. The study appears June 8th in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Army Corps clamps down on debris dumping by mountaintop coal-mining operations Surface coal mining--the controversial procedure that levels mountaintops and pollutes streams in the quest for the nation’s dirtiest fossil fuel--will face stricter rules under the Obama administration. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Freezer-free: Owner of Ben & Jerry's launches room-temperature ice cream project The freezer aisle may not be the only place to find your favorite flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream in the future. In fact, Turtle Soup, Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl and Cake Batter could someday be found on shelves right next to canned soup, peanut butter and cake mix. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Prospects for solar: "It's like watching the Internet mature in 1995" Editor's Note: Scientific American 's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar). Read his introduction here and see all posts here . I may be one of the few people in my town to have solar power right now, but if the news I’m hearing from the Solar Power International trade show this week is right, a wave of installations is about to sweep the country. I wasn’t able to attend the show -- this blog is just a sideline for me and I couldn’t justify a whole trip -- but I had a chance to talk with two conference attendees, Mike Caliel, CEO of IES , a big national energy contractor that has gotten heavily involved in renewables, and Harry Fleming, CEO of Acro Energy Technologies , one of the biggest solar installers in California. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Making Good Time: Doomsday Clock Moves 1 Minute Back to 6 from Midnight The human race can breathe a tiny bit easier (but not too much) now that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hand of its Doomsday Clock one minute farther away from midnight, the time which symbolizes catastrophic destruction and the apocalyptic end of civilization. The clock now reads six minutes from that end-of-days witching hour after it was changed during a press conference Thursday in New York City, citing an increased awareness and interest in stopping key threats to humanity (in particular nuclear conflict and global warming) since U.S. President Barack Obama took office about a year ago. [More] rss.sciam.com |