Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "New experimentation funded by the national Science ground at the teaching
hospital of Miami is showing that carbon dating (the 13C/12C ratio used to infer age) in the
ocean can only be trusted up to 150 million years ago. From the primary ...
(more)Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Klaus Schmidt writes "Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called
'EVE.' It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space. The rollout represents
another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the ...
(more)Nanotube Production: From Sooty Mess In Test Tube To Ready Formed Chemical Microsensors (Saturday 10th of May 2008 09:00:00 AM)
Carbon nanotubes' latent as a super matter is blighted by the fact that when first made they
often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test
tube. Now researchers in the schooling mash of Warwick's arena ...
(more)Self-Healing Artificial Muscles (Friday 21st of March 2008 01:15:06 AM)
Valor1016 writes "Researchers in California have developed an artificial muscle that heals
itself and generates electricity. 'We've made an artificial muscle that, when you apply
electricity to it, it expands, more than 200 percent, the motion and energy ...
(more)Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse (Sunday 10th of February 2008 11:00:09 PM)
Vortex2.71 sends us to the Seattle Times for an account of two studies published in the
prestigious journal Science pointing to the conclusion that almost all biofuels used today
cause more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full ...
(more)Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits (Monday 05th of November 2007 04:30:05 PM)
BBCWatcher writes "As Slashdot reported previously, Congress is pushing the U.S. environmental
monitoring Protection Agency to develop energy efficiency measures for data centers, especially
servers. But IBM is impatient: Computerworld notes IBM has signed ...
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