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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Project to intensify agricultural production in Great Lakes — Africa's most impoverished region

The Netherlands Government is launching a project to promote peace and environmental stability by improving soil health, intensifying farm production, and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Technique Reveals How Plastic Solar Cells Generate Power

Obtaining this information is a critical step in the development of a new class of solar cells, which promise significant savings in production costs compared…

Earth Sciences

Carbon dioxide emissions predicted to reduce density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017

The research appears in the latest issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, and will be presented today at the American Geophysical Union conference…

Life & Chemistry

LSU Professor Discovers New Species of Frog

Chris Austin, assistant curator of herpetology at LSU's Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS, and adjunct professor in biological sciences, recently discovered…

Earth Sciences

New Evidence: New Madrid Seismic Zone May Be Dying

Scientists from Northwestern University, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that New…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Machinery for Efficient Corn Stalk and Leaf Harvesting

That dual-stream, single-pass harvesting system was developed by Stuart Birrell, an Iowa State associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering,…

Studies and Analyses

How Materialism Develops in Children: Key Insights from Study

Some groups have criticized advertisers for manipulating children to demand an endless array of consumer products, while others have decried the creeping…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Maximizing Mileage: Powering Cars with Electric Capacity

If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the…

Earth Sciences

Midges send undeniable message — planet is warming

Researchers created a history of changing midge communities for six remote mountain lakes in the western United States. Midges, which resemble mosquitoes but…

Studies and Analyses

Why people 'never forget a face'

New research from Vanderbilt University suggests that we can remember more faces than other objects and that faces “stick” the best in our short-term memory….

Power and Electrical Engineering

World's fastest transistor approaches goal of terahertz device

Made from indium phosphide and indium gallium arsenide, “the new transistor utilizes a pseudomorphic grading of the base and collector regions,” said Milton…

Materials Sciences

Butterfly Wing Scales Inspire Advanced Photonic Structures

Using a low-temperature atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, materials scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology produced aluminum oxide (alumina)…

Earth Sciences

Climate Experts Examine Nuclear War’s Impact on Climate

On Monday, Dec. 11, at 4 p.m. PT, climate experts will discuss the long-term effects of atomic warfare at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union…

Earth Sciences

Impact of Regional Nuclear War on Global Climate Revealed

These powerful conclusions are being presented Dec. 11 during a press conference and a special technical session at the annual meeting of American Geophysical…

Life & Chemistry

First atherosclerosis vaccine: time for the count-down

The first vaccine against atherosclerosis is not far away in the future, according to Jan Nilsson, professor of Experimental Cardiology at Lunds Universitet in…

Environmental Conservation

Railroads: The Hidden Environmental Cost of Track Maintenance

Constructing and maintaining railroad tracks uses huge amounts of energy from fossil fuels. Great improvements can be made if the management of materials is…

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