New method of quantum entanglement packs vastly more data in a photon
New method of quantum entanglement packs vastly more data in a photon by Staff Writers Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2015 A team of researchers led by UCLA electrical enginee...
Nano-beaker offers insight into the condensation of atoms
Led by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel, the team was able to monitor for the first time how xenon atoms condensate in microsc...
See the Supermoon from the International Space Station
Astronaut Alexander Gerst tweeted this amazing picture of the above-earth view of a supermoon early Monday, when the moon was still behind the horizon. Gerst is a German astronaut ab...
Major study documents nutritional and food safety benefits of organic farming
The study looked at an unprecedented 343 peer-reviewed publications comparing the nutritional quality and safety of organic and conventional plant-based foods, including fruits, vege...
Bertrand Piccard begins around-the-world flight in a plane that requires no fuel
This morning, the Solar Impulse 2 — a plane powered only by the sun — took off from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, sailing past the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque on the first leg...
Same forces as today caused climate changes 1.4 billion years ago
Now researchers have found geological evidence that some of the same forces as today were at play 1.4 billion years ago. Now researchers from University of Southern Denmark, China Na...
Making organic molecules in hydrothermal vents in the absence of life
New research by geochemists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, published June 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show that methane format...
What set the Earth’s plates in motion?
Earth is the only planet in our solar system where the process of plate tectonics occurs, said Professor Patrice Rey, from the University of Sydney’s School of Geosciences. There are...
Tooth buried in bone shows prehistoric predators tangled across land, sea
Phytosaurs were thought to be dominant aquatic predators because of their large size and similarity to modern crocodylians, said Stocker, but we were able to provide the first direct...
This week from AGU: Sea-level spikes, volcanic risk, volcanos cause drought
The Volcanic Risk in Saudi Arabia (VORISA) project was developed as a multidisciplinary international research collaboration that integrates geological, geophysical, hazard, and risk...
Scientists smash solar cell efficiency record by converting 40.4% of sunlight to energy
A team from the University of New South Wales, Australia, just set a new world record for solar energy efficiency by successfully converting 40.4% of available sunlight into electric...
Scientists caution against exploitation of deep ocean
Our analysis is an effort to begin to summarize what the deep sea provides to humans because we take it for granted or simply do not know that the deep sea does anything to shape our...
New study shows the importance of jellyfish falls to deep-sea ecosystem
This week, researchers from University of Hawai’i, Norway, and the UK have shown with innovative experiments that a rise in jellyfish blooms near the ocean’s surface may lead to jell...
Japanese Firm Plans World’s First Underwater City Powered by Sustainable Energy
The spiral pathway is connected to a research facility, which would excavate the seabed for precious metals and create energy for the city above using temperature differences in ocea...
Israeli solar power plant to generate electricity around the clock
Israeli alternative energy company Brenmiller Energy has solved one of the biggest issues with solar technology — how to generate electricity when the sun sets. Biomass will be used ...
Internet of Things panics regulators
UK and US regulators are becoming increasingly concerned about how to manage the Internet of Things For those unfamiliar with the term, the Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the ab...
Internet of things devices meant to simplify our lives may end up ruling them instead
Certainly inventions of the past century such as the washing machine and combustion engine have brought leisure time to the masses. Technology growth in the workplace can lead to los...
INFOGRAPHIC: Discover the cleanest cities in the world
There’s a movement afoot to find ways to create cleaner cities: Birmingham, England is slashing emissions like a CO2 ninja, while Oslo boasts the honor of having not a single landfil...
INFOGRAPHIC: Could the Entire World Really Run on Solar Power?
It’s pretty safe to say that we all know that we have to find an alternative to fossil fuels as soon as possible, and the most viable answer to the planet’s energy needs is visible t...
Helsinki Builds 9 Million Gallon Underground Water Tank to Cool Local Buildings
The Finnish capital recently announced some major environmental initiatives aimed at making the city smarter and greener. After the water circulates through the cooling system during...
Earth’s water is older than the sun
New work from a team including Carnegie’s Conel Alexander found that much of our Solar System’s water likely originated as ices that formed in interstellar space. Water is found thro...
Deep-sea octopus broods eggs for over 4 years – longer than any known animal
Every few months for the last 25 years, a team of MBARI researchers led by Bruce Robison has performed surveys of deep-sea animals at a research site in the depths of Monterey Canyon...
Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Nino cycles
The results, from the University of Washington and University of Montpellier, question how well computer models can reproduce historical El Niño cycles, or predict how they could cha...
A Solar-Powered Hydroponic Food Belt Could Green the Entire Arabian Peninsula
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800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems
In a finding that has implications for life in other extreme environments, both on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF...