AIR - The Last Time CO2 Was This High, Humans Didn't Exist
The last time there was this much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere, modern humans didn't exist. Megatoothed sharks prowled the oceans, the world's seas were up to 100 feet higher than they are today, and the global average surface temperature was up to 11°F warmer than it is now. As we near the record for the highest CO2 concentration in human history - 400 parts per million - climate scientists worry about where we we ...
ANIMALS - Animals Rescuing Animals: Photos
Animals come to the rescue of members of their own species too ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/animals-rescuing-animals-1
ANIMALS - FYI: Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North America?
Squirrel Monkey The squirrel monkey, a New World monkey, would be pretty adorable to have perched on your white picket fence. Alas, it is not to be. Wikimedia Commons If only they had developed monkey boats. Tiny little monkey boats! Oh man I wish they had monkey boats. The infamous "Mystery Monkey of Tampa," an escaped rhesus macaque, was captured back in October. The rhesus macaque is not a rare monkey; it's adapted to human society better than ...
ANIMALS - How Bats Recognize Friends In The Dark
Just Hanging Out Bats recognize the voices of other bats they hang out with, according to a new study. Courtesy Hanna Kastein The ability to recognize individuals by sound helps bats stay connected in the dark. Scroll down for an audio sample. Bats are social animals, developing friendships and raising their young village-style. They also need to communicate like fighter pilots--quickly, specifically and in brief form--so they don't collide when ...
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/bats-can-recog
ART - Artist's symbiotic sculptures weave a magical story about nature (Photos)
British sculptor Laura Ellen Bacon uses willow branches to create expressive, larger-than-life works of environmental art ...
BOOKS - Show Some Respect for the Innovating Women Reshaping Technology and Entrepreneurship
By Farai Chideya, who is a co-author of Singularity University's upcoming crowd-created book, "Innovating Women". She is also a broadcaster and Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2013/05/10/show-some
BOOKS - What's the best price for a self-published ebook? $3.99, Smashwords research suggests
One of the biggest decisions that self-published authors have to make is how to price their ebook. What's the sweet spot? Self-publishing platform and digital bookstore Smashwords analyzed 11 months' worth of sales - $12 million, 120,000 ebooks sold - to discern some best practices for self-published authors. The full report is here. Among the findings: Most authors price at $2.99... Smashwords founder and CEO Mark Coker found that authors chose ...
CLIMATE - Greenland's Ice Loss May Slow, But Coasts Still At Risk
The flow of Greenland's glaciers toward the sea may have increased significantly in the past decade, but a new report in Nature finds that rate of increase is unlikely to continue. "The loss of ice has doubled in the past 10 years, but it's not going to double again," said lead author Faezeh Nick, a glaciologist at the University Centre in Svalbard, in Longyearbyen, Norway, in an interview. That conclusion, based on a new, sophisticated computer ...
CLIMATE - Jet Stream Enhances Drought in West, Midwest Relief
A week of wild and unusual weather brought a combination of record cold, snow flurries, heavy rains and 90-degree heat to different parts of the U.S. As a result of this weather pattern, which was characterized by a topsy turvy jet stream that caused storm systems to slowly inch across the country, drought shrank in some places and grew in others, but the changes followed the same pattern that has held for the past several weeks. Heavy precipita ...
EARTH - Atlantis Found Off Brazil? Erm...
Atlantis at last! We never tire of discovering it again, and again, and again. But this time it's the real one. Really. Cross my heart. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/atlantis-found-off-br
EARTH - Colonial Settlements That Failed: Photos
If Jamestown, which saw cannibalism in its early history, is an example of a successful colony, what do the failures look like ...
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/jamestown-settl
EARTH - Time-Lapse GIFs Show Earth Transforming Over 25 Years
Satellite images from every year since 1984 show the march of human progress-and the retreat of nature. Starting in the 1980s, Alaska's Columbia Glacier began retreating, shrinking from 41 miles long (its originally documented length in 1794) to 36 miles long in 1995. This is what that change actually looks like from space. The images are part of the Timelapse project from Google and TIME, what Google calls "the most comprehensive picture of ou ...
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/time-lapse-
ECONOMICS - Zealous Plans To Save The Economy With Creativity
In the last 50 years or so, our economy has evolved from an industrial to a financial ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2013/05/09/zealous
EDUCATION - 15,000-Year-Old Words?
Mother, bark and spit are some of the oldest known words, say researchers. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/history/15000-year-old-words-13050
EDUCATION - New Software Teaches Photocopiers How To Grade Papers
Printer-Grader Xerox The software should be ready for schools by the 2013-2014 school year. Talk about an upgrade. Xerox plans to introduce software this year that would transform certain combination printer-copier-scanners into automated grading machines, the Democrat and Chronicle reported. Teachers would be able to send pages of printed tests with handwritten answers into the machines and get grades back. While it grades, the machine keeps tr ...
ENERGY - 'Power plants': How to harvest electricity directly from plants
The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful energy ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130509104358.ht
ENERGY - DOE Renewable Energy Loan Program Has Created 20,000 Jobs (Way Beyond Solyndra)
This article was originally published on Climate Progress.By Jeff SprossImage Credit: Solar panel installation via ShutterstockThe Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program was started in 2005 under the Bush Administration, but ramped up thanks to the 2009 stimulus passed by President Obama and the Democrats. It has gotten a bad rap ever since the high-profile failure of Solyndra, one of the solar tech companies the program invested in.B .. ...
PEOPLE - 10 Things You Can't Do and Become President
Here are memorable fumbles and gaffes -- some small, some not so -- that disqualify a candidate in the public's eye ...
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/10-things-you-c
PEOPLE - Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth
The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people ...
PLANTS - 'Power plants': How to harvest electricity directly from plants
The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful energy ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130509104358.ht
PLANTS - New Meat-Eating Plant Species Found In Japan
New Sundew Species Mikio Watanabe "Meat-eating," not "man-eating." Still cool though. According to Japan Times, a new species of carnivorous plant has been found in Aichi Prefecture, on the central-southern coast of Japan's main island. The Japan Times calls it a "pitcher plant," which it is not; as a species related to (and mistaken for) Drosera indica, it's actually a sundew. Sundews and pitcher plants are both carnivorous, and largely insectiv ...
SCIENCE - 7 Amazing Images Of The Future, From 1947
Dreams of the future, from 1947 Popular Science archives From the Popular Science archive: Weather control, looped cities, moon microwaves, and more! Click here to enter the gallery When Popular Science published these dazzling visions of the future in May 1947, science seemed to be propelling humanity faster and faster into a strange new world: engineers and pilots were making the first flights to graze the edges of space; physicists had alread ...
SCIENCE - Device for portable, ultra-precise clocks and quantum sensors developed
Researchers have developed a portable way to produce ultracold atoms for quantum technology and quantum information processing ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130509090850.ht
SCIENCE - Honk If You Love Muons: 3,200 Mile Trip Planned For Muon G-2 Storage Ring
A gigantic set of steel and aluminum rings 50 feet across, the electromagnet at the heart of the Muon g-2 storage ring, will soon make a 3,200-mile trip from Brookhaven National Laboratory to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. This high-tech loaner will be used to study muons, particles that burst into existence and flame out again before you can say yolo.Oversize Load by conbon33.What Is A Muon?If the last science class you took describ .. ...
SCIENCE - New magnetic graphene may revolutionize electronics
Researchers have managed to give graphene magnetic properties. The breakthrough opens the door to the development of graphene-based spintronic devices, that is, devices based on the spin or rotation of the electron, and could transform the electronics industry ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130510075506.ht
SCIENCE - Scientists demonstrate pear shaped atomic nuclei
Scientists have shown that some atomic nuclei can assume the shape of a pear which contributes to our understanding of nuclear structure and the underlying fundamental interactions ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130509104352.ht
SCIENCE - Spintronics discovery: Scientists find new 'magic' in magnetic material
Researchers have reported a fundamental finding that will help advance the development of next-generation electronics called "spintronics. ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130508171901.ht
SCIENCE - The LHC Might Have Created The Smallest Drop Of Liquid Ever
CMS The Compact Muon Solenoid, one of the two large particle physics detectors on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. CERN A tiny drop could have big implications for our understanding of particle collisions. Over the past few months, the Large Hadron Collider has been ramming protons and lead ions together in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), one of its particle detectors. After each collision, some of the newly produced particles zoom away togeth ...
SPACE - Big Pic: The Milky Way's Black Hole Devours Hot Gas
Artist's rendering of the center of the Milky Way Very hot gas orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it may be about to fall in. ESA-C. Carreau Chomp chomp, guuulp. Later this year, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way will dine on a small passing cloud of gas, which wandered too close and is now spiraling toward the black hole's maw. But that may only be a first course, according to new obs ...
SPACE - Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars
The Second Man on the Moon BuzzAldrin.com In a wide-ranging interview with PopularScience.com, Aldrin talks about a mission to Mars, 34 years of sobriety and the future of American leadership in space. With enough money and enough might, humans could probably get to Mars in the next couple of decades. It's a proposition made all the more relevant by the continuing findings of the rovers Opportunity and Curiosity. It would be a mammoth undertaking ...
SPACE - Deep Lakes and Catastrophic Floods of Mars
A new look at the chasms of Mars suggests there were kilometers-deep lakes that spilled catastrophically from one to another early in martian history ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/deep-lakes-of-ancient-mars-1
SPACE - NASA Scientists Observe The Brightest Explosion Ever
Gamma-ray Burst (Artist's Conception) Wikimedia Commons Look at a lightbulb. Now imagine 35 billion lightbulbs. If you weren't looking at the constellation Leo very early on Saturday morning, you probably missed the brightest explosion NASA scientists have ever observed. It was three times as bright as the next-brightest explosion, and a ridiculous, basically unimaginable 35 billion times brighter than visible light. The explosion was a gamma ...
SPACE - NEWSFLASH: Mars is Toxic
A one-way mission to Mars is a risky proposition and now scientists have identified Martian dust as a toxic hazard. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/newsflash-mars-is-toxic-1305
SPACE - Plants 'Talk' to Each Other Through Vibes
The Ents of the "Lord of the Rings" series and the flowers in "Alice in Wonderland" spoke with each other and people. In the real world, plants may have a much more subtle form of communication. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/peppers-dig-basils-go
SPACE - See Gravity Bend Light In New Telescope Images
Einstein Cross Configuration These two images show one example of a gravitational lens. The light from one quasar has been distorted so that the quasar appears four times. In the center of the four is the galaxy whose gravitational pull is causing the distortion. Space Warps A citizen science website wants your help to spot gravitational lenses in never-before-seen pictures. Take an object that's massive enough, and it will bend light around it i ...
SPACE - Star Explosion the Most Powerful Ever Seen
Gamma-ray burst is 'eye-wateringly' bright, even from 3.6 billion light years away ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/record-breaking-st
SPACE - Where Do Baby Comets Come From?
Comets mysteriously appear from the depths of space like whales from the depths of the ocean, but where do they come from ...
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/comets-oort-cloud-
SPACE - Why Would Aliens Obliterate Our Moon?
Humanity has taken many pot-shots at the moon, but what would extraterrestrials gain by destroying our planet's only natural satellite? Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/why-wo
SUSTAINABILITY - Cool but endangered conical houses get preservation treatment in Indonesia
Working with the local community on a remote island, a young architect is determined to ensure the survival of traditional building lore ...
URBAN - Amazing Tiny Tack House Was Built Entirely by Hand
Read the rest of Amazing Tiny Tack House Was Built Entirely by HandPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: eco design, green design, handmade home, Malissa and Chris Tack, minimal living, small living, Snohomish, sustainable design, tiny spaces, tiny tack house, washingto .. ...
URBAN - INTERVIEW: With Bridgette Meinhold, Author of 'Urgent Architecture'
When Inhabitat's Architecture Editor, Bridgette Meinhold, heard about the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the massive devastation it caused, she wanted to help, and was drawn to start investigating different options for temporary shelters and disaster relief housing. This exploration gradually broadened to a larger focus on design for disaster-preparedness; seeking out what type of shelters can best withstand earthquakes, hurricanes, rising sea ...
URBAN - MVRDV & Space Group Propose Plan for Green & Sustainable Growth in Norway
Read the rest of MVRDV & Space Group Propose Plan for Green & Sustainable Growth in NorwayPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", "sustainable development", eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green masterplan, madla-revheim masterplan, MVRDV, norway, parks, public park, Space Group, stavenger, Sustainable Building, sustainable design, sustainable growth, Urban design, urban gree ...
URBAN - Quotes of the Day: Joe Lstiburek on the good, the bad and the ugly side of buildings
Andrew Michler does a great interview of the building science consultant in Inhabita ...
URBAN - Spooky Abandoned Igloo Hotel In Alaska About To Be Restored
Read the rest of Spooky Abandoned Igloo Hotel In Alaska About To Be RestoredPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: abandoned, alaska, Architecture, eco-tourism, George Parks Highway, Igloo Hotel, wooden structur .. ...
URBAN - Student designed "Elevator B" tower to boost Buffalo's bee populations
In the hopes of increasing local bee numbers, University of Buffalo architecture students created this intriguing wild urban bee habitat ...
WATER - Arctic Ocean's Rapid Acidification Could Be Dire
Scientists expressed alarm on Monday over the rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean caused by carbon dioxide emissions ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/scientists-warn-of-ar
WATER - Deep Sea Methane Ecosystem Found in Atlantic
Deep sea explorers recently discovered a methane-based ecosystem nearly one mile beneath the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Few of these methane-munching ecosystems have been found along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/deep-sea-methane-ecos
WIND - Samsung And Scotland Join To Build Offshore Wind Turbine Prototype
Non-departmental public body Scottish Enterprise have awarded Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) £6.04 million in funding to support the development of a 7 MW offshore wind turbine prototype at Scotland's Fife Energy Park, the country's leading manufacturing and research zone for the renewable energy sector.Fife Energy ParkImage Credit: Fife Energy ParkScottish Enterprise's financial input backs the existing £100 million that SHI has already i .. ...
WRITE - Researchers Trace Languages Of Billions Back To One Ancient Ancestor
Where does the world live? Grecu Mihail Alin | Dreamstime.com At the end of the last ice age, a single language fractured, until it became the languages we speak across Asia and Europe. At least 15,000 years ago, a single language started to break up. It broke into about seven different languages and, over the next 5,000 years, splintered into thousands more. Those languages became what's spoken by billions throughout Europe and Asia. The seven ...
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