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Workers scramble to clear embarrassing algae sludge China scrambled Thursday to clear tonnes of algae that is covering a third of the Olympic sailing course and causing huge embarrassment for authorities trying to promote a "Green Games." Neither Rain Nor Sleet Will Stop NASA's Ares Rockets Barry Roberts wants to help build a better rocket…one that can fly despite record low temperatures, one that hail and rain can`t stop. First images of solar system's invisible frontier NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium. 'Hibernation-on-demand' drug significantly improves survival after extreme blood loss For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the administration of minute amounts of inhaled or intravenous hydrogen sulfide, or H2S - the molecule that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench - significantly improves survival from extreme blood loss in rats. Fires Burning Near Big Sur, California Fires near Big Sur, Calif., continued to burn unchecked when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured this image on Sunday, June 29. Solution to high energy costs could lie underground Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it`s not coal or oil. It`s compressed air energy storage (CAES). The Tunguska Event--100 Years Later The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will be hurled from his chair and the heat will be so intense he will feel as though his shirt is on fire. Proposed NASA Mission Could Explore Twisted Space Around Black Holes A new NASA mission could discover the shape of space that has been distorted by a spinning black hole's crushing gravity, and explore the structure and effects of the formidable magnetic field around magnetars, dead stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's. Sunburn alert: UVB does more damage to DNA than UVA As bombs burst in air this July 4, chances are that sunburn will be the red glare that most folks see - and feel. But unfortunately, even when there is no burn, the effects of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays can have deadly consequences. Shrinking carbon footprints Would shrinking your carbon footprint, recycling more, and going green be easier if you could monitor your household's environmental impact? That's the question a team of Canadian industry consultants set out to answer. They report their findings in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management from Inderscience Publishers. ... |