AIR - A sensitive, affordable sensor to detect tiny amounts of CO2
Researchers at the Universities of Toronto and St. Francis Xavier are developing an affordable, energy efficient and ultra-sensitive nano-sensor that has the potential to detect even one molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-sensitive-sensor-tiny-amounts-c
AIR - China's thick smog arrives in Japan
The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Japan, sparking warnings Monday of health risks for the young and the sick ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-china-thick-smog-japan.htm
ANIMALS - Cats and humans suffer from similar forms of epilepsy
Epilepsy affects the very core of our being, our brain. Epileptic attacks can lead to seizures throughout the body or in parts of it. Clouding of consciousness or memory lapses are also possible. The causes are still only partially understood but in some cases brain tumors, infections, inflammations of the brain or metabolic diseases have been implicated ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130201090354.ht
CLIMATE - January hottest month on record in Australia
Australia experienced its hottest month on record in January, despite floods and storms that devastated parts of the country's east, officials said ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-january-hottest-month-australia
CLIMATE - Planting trees may not reverse climate change, but it will help locally
Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions, a new study finds ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130201090616.ht
ECONOMICS - How To Start Automating A Business Of Any Size
Every business faces fierce competition--both in terms of sales and, just as importantly, efficiency and effectiveness. That's where automation comes in: To remain competitive you need to automate--or someone else will automate you out of business. I talked to Randy Clark, Chief Marketing Officer of UC4 Software, the IT process automation company that helps over 2,000 businesses automate tens of millions of operations each day. While UC4 works wi ...
ECONOMICS - How to build better products
A friend who is a Google engineer once thought of a great idea for a browser extension. So he set to work and over the next few weeks he had built a prototype. It then occurred to him to check whether anyone had already made a similar product. Sure enough, a quick search turned up pages and pages of results for existing implementations of his concept - there was even a wiki to track the various incarnations! It turns out this situation is common ...
ECONOMICS - Legal Offshore Tax Planning? Yes, it Sounds Discriminatory
The last five years of IRS crackdowns on offshore income and bank accounts might make you think anything offshore is illegal. It isn't, although disclosure and reporting are key. Americans must pay U.S. tax on their worldwide income. While they may claim foreign tax credits for taxes paid elsewhere, they still end up with high U.S. taxes even if they pay low rates overseas. See 10 IRS Rules For Stress-Free Foreign Accounts ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/02/02/legal-offs
ECONOMICS - Start-ups are great, but we can learn a lot from "end-ups," too
At last week's DLD Conference in Munich, I had the opportunity to sit onstage with the co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia. We started by discussing the unique creative culture at Rhode Island School of Design, where Joe went to college, and where I currently serve as president. Joe shared some of his secrets of being a successful designer-founder, and then turned the tables and asked me what it's like to run a 136-year-old institution like ...
EDUCATION - Google In Education: Chromebooks Now Embraced By More Than 2000 Schools
Catholic prep school St. Thomas Aquinas in Florida is one of more than 2000 schools to adopt Chromebooks for education according to Jaime Casap, Google's Global Education Evangelist. That number represents a healthy 100% growth spurt during the past 3 months ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/02/02/google
EDUCATION - Study finds mutations linked to relapse of childhood leukemia
After an intensive three-year hunt through the genome, medical researchers have pinpointed mutations that leads to drug resistance and relapse in the most common type of childhood cancer-the first time anyone has linked the disease's reemergence to specific genetic anomalies ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mutations-linked-relap
ENERGY - Energy Storage Costs To Halve & Market To Boom, Study Finds
This article was originally published on Renew Economy:A new study released by the Clean Energy Council points to the huge role that energy storage can play in the evolving power markets, but points to the huge barriers - mostly the interests of incumbent utilities - that stand in its way.The report prepared by consulting group MarchMent Hill, entitled Energy Storage in Australia - Commercial Opportunities, Barriers and Policy Options, predict .. ...
ENERGY - Steven Chu Resigns From Position As US Secretary Of Energy After Excellent 4 Years
Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy during the past four years, has been a regular celebrity on CleanTechnica. He has done a wonderful job in the position despite numerous (absurd) attacks from the GOP and conservative media. I'm sad to see him go, but I'm also eager to see who will take his place. For now, here a letter Dr. Chu just sent to Energy Department employees:By Steven ChuDear Colleagues:Serving the country as Secretary of Energy, .. ...
ENERGY - The Smart Business of Advanced Energy
As a former investment banker on Wall Street I know of the importance of a diverse portfolio. It's simple. Unless you like to gamble, don't put all your eggs in one basket. That old cliché should also be applied to America's energy strategy. As I have mentioned before, a diverse energy portfolio, one that combines traditional and advanced energy sources, is a prudent strategy to mitigate long-term risks in our energy needs and supply. Now, we ha ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccabagley/2013/02/01/the-sma
ENERGY - Wind And Solar Competitive With Natural Gas In The Lone Star State
Texas is tops among US states when it comes to installed wind power generation capacity, having added 1,826 megawatts (MW) in 2012 to bring its cumulative total to a whopping 12.212 gigawatts (GW), enough to power nearly 3 million average American homes, according to the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) latest industry report.Ongoing improvements in wind turbine technology, manufacturing processes, installation and operations and main .. ...
PEOPLE - King Richard III's Skeletal Remains Found
Last summer, researchers announced that they may have found the human skeleton of King Richard III beneath a parking lot in England. After rigorous DNA analysis, the University of Leicester confirmed Monday, Feb. 4, that the bones belong to the medieval monarch. From the University: DNA from the skeleton matches two of Richard III's maternal line relatives. The genealogy investigation verified the connection between these descendants and Richard ...
PLANTS - 24 new species of flower fly have been found in Central and Southern America
Scientists have described twenty four new species of dipterans belonging to Quichuana genus, of which only a further 24 species were known. The researchers have been studying the forests of Central and Southern America for ten years and they have now published their results ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130131084419.ht
PLANTS - Some plants are altruistic, too, new study suggests
We've all heard examples of animal altruism: Dogs caring for orphaned kittens, chimps sharing food or dolphins nudging injured mates to the surface. Now, a new study suggests some plants are altruistic, too ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130201132334.ht
SCIENCE - Human hearing beats the Fourier uncertainty principle
(Phys.org)-For the first time, physicists have found that humans can discriminate a sound's frequency (related to a note's pitch) and timing (whether a note comes before or after another note) more than 10 times better than the limit imposed by the Fourier uncertainty principle. Not surprisingly, some of the subjects with the best listening precision were musicians, but even non-musicians could exceed the uncertainty limit. The results rule out t ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-human-fourier-uncertainty-princ
SCIENCE - Noise is not necessarily detrimental to quantum devices
The researches of the Aalto University and the University of Oulu have succeeded to simulate a phenomenon called motional averaging, which demonstrates that in certain conditions externally-induced fast fluctuations in energy can help stabilize the state of the system. The study shows that noise is not necessarily detrimental to the functioning of quantum devices such as superconducting quantum bits, but under certain circumstances noise can even ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-noise-necessarily-detrimental-q
SCIENCE - Physics duo offer explanation of why tiny bubbles last longer on a surface
(Phys.org)-Physicists in The Netherlands, Detlef Lohse and Joost Weijs of the University of Twente, have offered an explanation of why nano-sized bubbles last considerably longer when sitting on a solid surface covered by a fluid, than when they are allowed float free. In their paper published in Physical Review Letters, the two argue that surface-held bubbles have increased radii of curvature and sit in pools of liquid infused with gas, which ca ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-physics-duo-explanation-tiny-lo
SOLAR - Considering Solar? Of Course You Are...
Home solar panels & cash via ShutterstockWe currently have close to 3,000 articles on CleanTechnica filed under the "Solar Power" category, more than any topic other than "Clean Power" (which is Solar Power's parent category). But sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees... and that includes us!What am I talking about? I'm talking about the fact that I don't think we've ever written a post on how to go about getting solar panels pu .. ...
SOLAR - Germany, China, North America Head List Of Top 10 PV Markets
Germany, China, and North America led the way in the top 10 photovoltaic (PV) global market places in 2012 based on recent research done by NPD Solarbuzz analysis.Image Credit: Man Standing By Solar Panels via ShutterstockIn a recent PV Tech article, Germany again took top prize with 26% of the global PV market share, thanks to slight volume increases on a year-on-year basis. However, the solar giants dipped 2% on their portion of total world .. ...
SOLAR - Mainstreaming Solar PV: Assurant Joins truSolar Underwriting Initiative
Led by Distributed Sun and DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions, the truSolar consortium of 16 leading solar industry participants have established a working group that aims to address "a broad array of project risks through the development of uniform standards that will facilitate lower transaction and capital costs, and improve project finance liquidity within the commercial and industrial solar segment."Joining the founding members' group, commerc .. ...
SOLAR - Solar News: Solar At 11 Euro Cents In Germany, Solar Benefits Residents, Polish Feed-In Tariff Reviewed...
If you're solar obsessed, beyond our own solar power stories from the past week or so, you may also want to check out some of these pieces:GermanyAltmaier Paper on Renewable (1): No Need for Cost ReductionAltmaier Paper on Renewable (2): Irresponsible Undermining of Trust in GermanyAltmaier Paper on Renewable (3): Reducing Payments for New InstallationsAltmaier Paper on Renewable (4): Getting Self Consumed Electricity into the Feed-in Tariff S .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/04/solar-news-solar-at-11-e
SOLAR - Solar power prices to continue falling through 2025, experts say
Prices for solar modules—the part of solar panels that produce electricity—will continue to fall, in line with the long-term trend since 1980, according to a survey of experts by Near Zero, , a nonprofit energy research organization. However, for prices to keep falling for the long term will require continued committment to research, such as on materials used for making solar modules ...
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-solar-power-prices-falling-expe
SOLAR - SolarCity Announces Pricing of Its Initial Public Offering
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SolarCity Corporation, a provider of clean distributed energy, announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $8.00 per share. The common stock is expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Market on December 13, 2012 under the ticker symbol “SCTY.” A total of 11,434,988 shares are being offered by SolarCity and 65,012 shares are being offered b ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121212006723/en/Sola
SOLAR - Thin-Film Solar Power To Be Sold For Less Than Coal Power
According to a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between El Paso Electric Company and First Solar, electricity will be sold from First Solar's thin-film solar panels to El Paso Electric Company for 5.8 cents per kWh.A First Solar installation of some of its CdTe panels.The name of the power plant is Macho Springs Solar Park. It is located in New Mexico, and it has an electricity generation capacity of 50 MW.The highly unusual thing about this is .. ...
SOLAR - Western Australia Greens Propose Solar On All Public Housing
This article was originally published on Renew Economy (images added).Western Australia sign via ShutterstockThe WA Greens have unveiled a $68 million plan to install solar PV panels on all public housing homes, in what could be an interesting test of the ability of solar to gain traction as an election issue.The plan announced by Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren would involve installing a 1.5kW solar PV system on the roof of public housing homes and .. ...
SOLAR - Wireless Revolution - Solar Eliminates The Expense Of Wiring Devices To The Grid
This morning I decided to head down to the beach and take a photograph of a solar-powered parking lot sign for you, but it was raining. This was very odd, as it almost never rains in Adelaide at this time of year. Of course, it does rain in other parts of Australia. A fair bit of Queensland is under water at the moment as a result of all the rain they're having, which is rather inconvenient for them, but I suppose it makes for a pleasant chang .. ...
SPACE - Are super-Earths actually mini-Neptunes?
(Phys.org)-In the last two decades astronomers have found hundreds of planets in orbit around other stars. One type of these so-called 'exoplanets' is the super-Earths that are thought to have a high proportion of rock but at the same time are significantly bigger than our own world. Now a new study led by Helmut Lammer of the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences suggests that these planets are actually surrounded by ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-super-earths-mini-neptunes.htm
SPACE - Solving a mystery of the Sun's corona
(Phys.org)-The corona of the sun is the hot (over a million kelvin), gaseous outer region of its atmosphere. The corona is threaded by intense magnetic fields that extend upwards from the surface in braids that are twisted and sheared by the convective stirrings of the underlying dense atmosphere. Understanding the corona and its physical processes is essential to the development of a long-range space weather prediction capability ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-mystery-sun-corona.htm
TECH - Booming Sales of iPhone 5 Drive Apple to #1 in U.S.
The ascendancy of mobile devices as the professional and personal platform of choice has become unmistakably clear as Apple-for the first time ever-became the world's highest-volume seller of mobile phones in the fourth quarter on the strength of booming sales of the iPhone 5 ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2013/02/04/booming-sales-
TECH - First light from the first high-energy superconducting undulator
(Phys.org)-More than eight years of effort by Advanced Photon Source (APS) physicists, engineers, and technicians culminated on Jan. 21, 2013, with the production of the first X-rays from the prototype of a novel superconducting undulator (SCU), which has been installed in the APS electron accelerator and storage ring at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. It is the first such SCU operated at a third-generation sync ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-high-energy-superconducting-und
TECH - Google Experiments With New Flight Explorer Feature
Google is trying out a new travel search tool that seems to be aimed primarily at casual travelers that are as concerned about price as they are about a destination ...
http://searchengineland.com/google-experiments-with-new-flig
TECH - Google Maps Now Covers Grand Canyon
If you want to explore your Grand Canyon hike before you set off on the trail, you can now just turn to Google Maps ...
TECH - HP Cutting Jobs, Shutting Site In German Enterprise Services Unit
Hewlett-Packard this morning said it plans to cut hundreds of jobs in Germany as part of a restructuring of its enterprises services business in that country. HP will be closing its site in Rüsselsheim, Germany, by the end of October ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2013/02/01/hp-cutting
TECH - Into the quantum internet at the speed of light
Not only do optical fibers transmit information every day around the world at the speed of light, but they can also be harnessed for the transport of quantum information. In the current issue of Nature Photonics, a research team of Innsbruck physicists led by Rainer Blatt and Tracy Northup report how they have directly transferred the quantum information stored in an atom onto a particle of light. Such information could then be sent over optical ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-quantum-internet.htm
TECH - Stunning Photos Of Google's Massive Data Centers
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fgfk45gfef/colorful-pipes-in-
TECH - The Google Search Evolution
Design changes to Google Search that Jon Wiley and his team have worked on in the past few years ...
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eihm45llmj/updated-color-pale
TECH - The Next Digital Paradigm
For over half a century, we've been cramming more and more transistors into smaller and smaller spaces and doubling processing power about every 18 months. Now we are nearing the physical limits of the present technology and, sometime around 2020, will begin a new digital paradigm ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2013/02/02/the-next-d
TECH - This Software Can Analyze News And Predict Disease, Violence, And Disaster (MSFT)
Researchers from Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed software that can predict when and where outbreaks might occur, Tom Simonite of MIT Technology Review reports. The system, which taps into 22 years worth of archives from The New York Times, works by identifying and analyzing clues from news reports and more than 90 other data sources from the web. The prototype software can predict things like disease out ...
TECH - Twitter Says Hackers May Have Compromised 250,000 Accounts
To end a week that saw the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post all admit to long-term infiltration by hackers, Twitter has a data breach confession of its own ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/02/01/twitter
TECH - Where Kim Dotcom and Mega have the edge on Dropbox and Box.net
As a world (in)famous technologist with the literal last name "Dotcom," Kim Dotcom is a man whose swag is matched only by the damages sought against him by the U.S. government. His filesharing site Megaupload was long the ire of record companies and movie studios, who say it was a massive and sprawling repository of pirated content. If the accusations are true, it was one of the more successful pirate operations in history. At its peak, Megauploa ...
URBAN - Harm Rensink's Pop-Up Inflatable Spa Gives City Dwellers Health of Body and Peace of Mind
Read the rest of Harm Rensink's Pop-Up Inflatable Spa Gives City Dwellers Health of Body and Peace of MindPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: ana lisa alperovich, Architecture, cocoon, Dutch Design Week 2012, felt soap, Green Design Events, Harm Rensink, inflatable, Pop-Up Spa, steam room, Urban design, Urban Sp .. ...
WIND - Man-Made Wind For The Wind Turbines Of The Future
Low cost wind power is extending its reach throughout the U.S., even in regions where wind conditions aren't exactly optimal for powering a wind turbine. New transmission lines like the Grain Belt Express are helping to make that happen, and there could be a third option on the horizon if all goes well for Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. The company has developed an energy efficient way to generate wind in a steady, reliable stream, and the tech .. ...
WORK - Don't Work For A Tech Company If You Want A Stress-Free Job
Work is a place where deadlines, time management, and multitasking thrive. And no other industry feels that intense pressure more than tech. Tech companies are notorious for being fast-paced work spaces that produce stress-induced workers. New information from PayScale confirms that big tech companies cause their employees the most stress. We recently published a list of the 50 Best Employers In America based on data from our partner, PayScale. A ...
WORK - How One Tech Company Consistently Appears On 'Best Places To Work' Lists
Building a great work environment is essential in attracting and retaining talent in a competitive workforce. Texas Instruments, Inc., a Dallas-based technology company, has consistently appeared on best places to work lists. The company ranked number 31 on Business Insider's The 50 Best Employers In America, which was based on exclusive data from PayScale. Employees from the company reported a 73 percent job satisfaction rate. We reached out ...
WORK - How Pfizer Keeps Its Employees Happy
Pfizer may be a major multinational pharmaceutical corporation - but that doesn't mean that it doesn't care about its employees. The company was ranked as the eleventh-best company to work in our list of the Best Employers In America, with 73 percent of its employees reporting high job satisfaction. Perhaps it's ranked so highly because it gives its employees lots of opportunity for personal growth within the company. One of their progra ...
WORK - The Pros And Cons Of Working At The Best Employer In America
In the past decade, Celgene Corporation has become a major player in the biopharmaceutical sector. Aside from developing drugs that help people battle cancer and inflammatory disorders, Celgene is also recognized as a great place to work. In fact, the company was ranked as the Best Employer of 2013 on Business Insider's list, which was based on exclusive data from PayScale. Employees from the company reported a 91 percent job satisfaction ra ...
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