| Is birth control the answer to environmental ills? Population growth , now at roughly 78 million extra people per year, is the don't-go-there zone of modern environmentalism and political discourse. [More] rss.sciam.com |
The Cyber Sea: World's Largest Internet Undersea Science Station Boots Up [Slide Show] Thanks to a new, wired undersea observatory, when it comes to exploring the deep blue sea, there will be no more of this tethered buoy business or taking ships out to upload data from brief time snapshots taken by instruments. The NEPTUNE network set to go online Tuesday will stream data from hundreds of undersea instruments and sensors direct from the Pacific Ocean floor to the Internet 24/7, year-round. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Next-Gen Scientists Honored for Evolving Medicine and Renewables [Slide Show] The more mysteries that scientists unlock, the more opportunities emerge for the next generation of researchers to transform newfound knowledge into tomorrow's breakthroughs that serve society. The Lemelson–M.I.T. Program recognized several potential breakthroughs Wednesday in awarding four of its $30,000 Lemelson–M.I.T. Student Prizes to those from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U.I.U.C.). [More] rss.sciam.com |
Free Brooklyn Concerts, Thanks to Borough President Borough President Marty Markowitz’s free concert series in Brooklyn is hugely popular, except with a couple of synagogues. nytimes.com |
A tale of two Tanzanian villages: Mwamgongo steps up water monitoring while Kalinzi lags Editor's Note: Students from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. This series chronicles work being done by the student-led group , known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP), to design "rocket stoves" in the village of Mwamgongo and top-light updraft design (TLUD) gasification stoves in the village of Kalinzi. The goal is to create a healthier, more energy-efficient cooking apparatus that these villagers will accept and use. HELP students are filing these dispatches from the field during their trip. This blog post, their 14th for Scientific American , addresses water systems. [More] rss.sciam.com |