Earth Sciences

Geologic Puzzle: What Explains Titan's Low Crater Count?

glaciers and river networks have all reshaped Earth's surface over billions of years. On Titan, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2012 - 11:00am

Light dependent activation of RuBISCO and Carbon dioxide fixation

possible to cite those who have contributed to this understanding but I acknowledge the work of all persons ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 18 2012 - 12:31pm

Microbes Use Excess Wind Power To Make Cleaner Natural Gas

electrosynthesis is essentially carbon neutral and so will all other commodity chemicals that can be produced that ...

Article - Brita Belli - Aug 22 2012 - 4:00am

Geoengineering Less Sunshine- An Approach To Global Warming

reducing incident sunlight does nothing at all to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2012 - 8:00pm

Villa Åkarp: Sustainable Homes That Are Energy Positive

year. All the energy the home produces and uses is tracked closely, says Adalberth, the owner and ...

Article - Brita Belli - Sep 12 2012 - 4:30am

Svalbard Hotter Than Medieval Warm Period- Study

170, Hekla in 1104 and Öræfajökull in 1362--all left unique chemical time markers on Svalbard's ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2012 - 9:42am

Black Silicon Solar Cells Can Absorb Infrared Spectrum And Now Are A Whole Lot More Efficient

radiation is lost. One way to overcome it is to use black silicon, a material that absorbs nearly all of the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2012 - 8:30am

Disaster Trifecta 40,000 Years Ago: Climate Shifts, Geomagnetic Field Reversal And A Super Volcano

geomagnetic field variability at a high temporal resolution. Yet that is not all, they say. Besides giving ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 18 2012 - 4:30am

Green Walls: Vertical Gardens Flip Parks On Their Sides

mini-ecosystems on the outside of buildings. As cities expand, they can’t always incorporate parkland into all the ...

Article - Brita Belli - Oct 25 2012 - 6:00am

Storing Solar Energy As Hydrogen Using Rust And Water

after all, the attractiveness of the approach. By making it possible to store solar energy ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2012 - 6:57pm