Deep sea pigs used to investigate ‘dead zones’
Scientists in Canada are using the bodies of dead pigs, diverted from the butcher's shop, in their undersea laboratory. Strapped with cameras, they find out more about life in the ocean.
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Underwater Robot Automates Ocean Testing
Scientists have developed an underwater biological laboratory that can identify DNA fragments in minutes, saving researchers the trouble of going into the field to retrieve samples.pa href="http://digg.com/general_sciences/Underwater_Robot_Automates_Ocean_Testing"Digg/a | a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100224/full/news.2010.89.html"Original/a/p
Navistar to NASA: Blow Me!
Navistar is testing devices developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that could save the U.S. trucking industry $10 billion a year in diesel fuel. The specially outfitted trucks are being tested in the world's largest wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center.
Judge Issues Arrest Warrant Against Floyd Landis
A French judge has issued an international arrest warrant against American rider Floyd Landis for suspected hacking into an anti-doping laboratory computer, French anti-doping agency head Pierre Bordry told Reuters on Monday.
Laboratory plays key role in DOE’s artificial retina project
Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are now developing the electronics for a third-generation artificial retina as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project to produce an “epiretinal prosthesis” that could restore vision to millions of people around the world suffering from eye diseases
Harnessing 192 Lasers to Create Unlimited Energy
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported they have taken a major step toward harnessing the forces that power the sun in an effort to create unlimited energy on Earth.
A Nuclear Reactor IN (virtual) ACTION
Ever wanted to see a nuclear reactor core in action? A new computer algorithm developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory allows scientists to view nuclear fission in much finer detail than ever before.
California Lakes Warming Faster Than Atmosphere
Lake Tahoe and five other large lakes in Northern California and Nevada are warming faster than the surrounding atmosphere, suggesting climate change may affect aquatic environments faster and sooner. The findings are reported in a new study led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Scientists Show How Bacteria Move Electrons Across Membrane
Scientists at the University of East Anglia, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which some bacteria can transfer electrons across a membrane to the cell exterior, allowing them to 'breathe' metals. ...
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected
Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in the human history, created an accidental laboratory to study the impacts of radiation — and more than twenty years later, the site still holds surprises.
Nikola Tesla: ‘We have a message from another world’
In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he believed to be attempted communications from an intelligent life-form on either Venus or Mars...
Dept of Energy: Wind Farms Have No Impact on Property Values
Economists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found no conclusive evidence of any widespread property value impacts in communities surrounding wind energy facilities.
Scientists Create Lab-Grown Pork; Bacon Industry Unmoved
Scientists in the Netherlands have created pig in a test tube. Debate has already started on whether it will save the world. If it feels and tastes like meat, people will buy it." Professor Mark Post and his colleagues predict that within five years, sausages and other pig products made from laboratory meat could be on the market.
Meat grown in laboratory in world first
Scientists have managed to grow a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time, according to reports.
World’s Fastest Computer Working on Solving Climate Change
The insanely powerful Jaguar XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was recently named the fastest supercomputer in the world. With a speed of 1.759 petaflops , this swift machine is currently being used by the forces of good to solve the world’s problems – including the climate change.
