Right now, 17 percent of the US is cropland while 51 percent is open and essentially unused. We have more open space in the US than the entire continent of Africa, only 3 percent of our land is urban, but you might not be aware of that because activists insist that urban blight is ruining the country.>
Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for factories, hospitals, ships, and others with large cooling systems, suggest the latest results from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research>
There are many enduring mysteries regarding the composition of the Earth's atmosphere but one may be a little closer to being solved. Researchers have discovered a microbial soil process that helps ensure that the explosive gas hydrogen remains at trace levels.
In recent decades it was found that about 80 percent>
For decades, natural history books have taught that when a
catastrophic asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the
dinosaurs and gave mammals – until then mostly small, tree-dwelling creatures –
a chance to flourish on the ground.
It’s the classic “mammals rise after dinosaurs fall”>
An international team of researchers says they have evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time.
Researchers from an expedition to the Gakkel Ridge report in the current issue of Nature that they discovered extensive layers of volcanic ash on the seafloor, which>
If your glass is half full, you recognize that in recent geological history, 90,000 of every 100,000 years have been ice ages, and it's been 12,000 years since the last one. In that light, global warming might be a good thing.>
You know my feelings on this. We need to embrace open post publication peer review. This way people can see the reviews and the reviews themselves should count as publications which can themselves...
"... a place where to store impressions, emotions, half-baked ideas ...: I say Professor Milgrom of the Weizmann Institute is the world's greatest living scientist — on the basis of...
"Scaling factors" for quark masses etc in that paper are due to the running of the coupling, i.e. top quark is formed at a higher energy so you have to us a different value of the...
I've also just started using AI to help do calculations, predicting particle masses from the energy absorbed by virtual particles undergoing vacuum polarization shielding. The most surprising...