| "P" is for plants: Human urine plus ash equals tomato fertilizer, study says Gardeners, take note: the secret to growing hearty tomatoes is remarkably close at hand. Look no further than your fireplace and, er, your bladder. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Engineering the Planet to Dodge Global Warming Failure to make difficult choices to cut greenhouse gas emissions exposes humanity to an increasingly dire set of climate scenarios. But there is a way to buy time: Geoengineering. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Coaching Baseball Rookies for the Limelight Therapists and former major leaguers help top prospects avoid the pitfalls of living in the public eye. nytimes.com |
Lasers and lidar systems gather data about the position and makeup of Iceland's volcanic plumes With Europe's airport staffers scrambling to send tens of thousands of flights into the air to make up for a week's worth of halted traffic and stranded travelers thanks to Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, researchers at the U.K.'s University of Reading are taking the first direct measurements of the ash plume parked over Scotland. [More] rss.sciam.com |
3 next-gen vehicles take the $10-million Automotive X PRIZE More than two years after challenging engineers to develop a new class of vehicle that could achieve 100 miles per gallon or the energy equivalent (mpge) , the X PRIZE Foundation on Thursday crowned three winners in its $10-million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE competition . Charlottesville, Va.'s Edison2 team took home a $5 million prize for its Very Light Car, a vehicle in the "mainstream" category that runs on an E85 ethanol-powered internal-combustion engine. Switzerland's Team X-Tracer and Mooresville, N.C.'s Li-ion Motors won $2.5 million each for producing the top "alternative" tandem and side-by-side vehicles, respectively. [More] Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize - Energy - Internal combustion engine - X PRIZE Foundation - Electric vehicle rss.sciam.com |