Massive Carbon-Capture Facility Spawns Skepticism and Hope
‘Norway’s Moon Landing’
Helge Hansen/ TCM
The world’s largest facility for filtering carbon dioxide out of industrial emissions was inaugurated in Norway this week. While some see it as a godsend in efforts to reach [...]
What is Carbon Capture & Storage?
What is Carbon Capture & Storage?
Carbon Capture and Storage is a mitigation technology essential in tackling global climate change, and ensuring a secure energy supply.
CCS technology captures carbon dioxide from fossil fuel power stations.
The [...]
Eastern quakes can trigger big shakes
These twisted trees in northwestern Tennessee were partially toppled during the New Madrid, Mo., quakes of 1811 and 1812. The trees resumed growing upright, as shown in this image taken about a century later. Credit: USGS
In the first week [...]
Can I go without a refrigerator?
When refrigerators hit the market in the late 1800s, it was a huge leap forward for civilized living. It offered a simple solution to the problem of bacteria-laden, disease-causing old food, not to mention the issue of losing money buying [...]
Women’s role in science technology jobs takes centre stage at Indian event
The role of women in science has been the focus of attention at an event in India as the government and industry work to provide more opportunities for female scientists.
At the 99th Indian Science Congress in Calcutta the theme was about inclusive [...]
Big quake, little destruction
Two large earthquakes, with magnitudes of 8.6 and 8.2, struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on April 11. Unlike the magnitude 9.1 quake that struck the region in December 2004, these tremors did not trigger a deadly [...]
A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results
Forlorn graduate students sometimes turn to a publication called The Journal of Negative Results.* In graduate student mythology, it’s the repository for toiled-over experiments that produced nothing — no effects, no detections, no differences, [...]
Power as addictive as cocaine
Noted historian Baron John Acton coined the phrase ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ more than a hundred years ago.
Now, scientists have claimed that the saying is biologically true.
The feeling of [...]
UK company to build Sun satellite
Ralph Cordey from Astrium UK explains how the craft will be built to survive its mission to the Sun
British industry will lead the production of Solar Orbiter (SolO), a spacecraft that will travel closer to the Sun than any satellite to date.
SolO [...]
Young scientists work together and win
Broadcom MASTERS, Robert Heckman, Justin Barber, Adriana Monzon, Alicia D’Souza, and Valerie Ding, finalists work together on a team challenge. Credit: Broadcom Foundation
Guests checking into the posh Palomar Hotel in Washington, D.C., [...]
