Obama stakes out oil, gas, middle
First it was coal, then nukes, now oil and gas. US President Barack Obama is once again staking out the middle ground on energy issues as he seeks support for climate legislation in the Senate. Read more
First it was coal, then nukes, now oil and gas. US President Barack Obama is once again staking out the middle ground on energy issues as he seeks support for climate legislation in the Senate. Read more
Almost as soon as the earthquake hit Haiti on 12 January, urban planners and scientists dusted off plans to relocate some of Port-Au-Prince’s infrastructure away from the crowded city centre, which is dangerously close to the Enriquillo fault.
For several years now, Britain’s burgeoning wind industry has had an unlikely foe: the Ministry of Defence (MoD). It’s not that the MoD wants coal-powered tanks or anything; in fact they actually believe that climate change might be a dangerous, destabilizing event.
The scientist at the centre of the ‘climate-gate’ emails has escaped censure from a Parliamentary inquiry into the affair, but his university and the field of climate science in general have not. Read more
Breast cancer gene patents judged invalid
Court ruling may spell bad news for biotech industry.
Researchers fail to come up with clear guidelines for experiments that change the planet’s climate.
Synching Europe’s big science facilities
Momentum grows for body to coordinate the continent’s research infrastructure.
Space probe set to size up polar ice
Europe’s ice-monitoring project gets a second chance after 2005 launch mishap.
Toads may be able to predict earthquakes, according to a serendipitous set of observations made in Italy. Read more
“Well, at least it hurt less than grad school at Cornell.”
‘Corey’ says getting a tattoo of fulvic acid – the subject of his PhD – on his back wasn’t so bad (The Loom).
“If this problem isn’t addressed then there is a real possibility that gonorrhoea will become a very difficult infection to treat.”
Catherine Ison, of the UK’s Health Protection Agency, warns that the sexually transmitted disease may be becoming drug resistant (BBC).
“For more than 30 years Britain has not done space rockets. But perhaps there is hope.”
Doug Millard, of the Science Museum, ponders the UK’s new space agency (Daily Telegraph).
Elephants move differently to all other quadruped animals, with all four limbs being used for both braking and propulsion. Read more
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