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Location: Heslington, United States
Equipment using wireless technology is becoming increasingly commonplace but
despite this up to 90 per cent of the radio spectrum can be idle in any one
location.
The failure to unlock the potential of this unused radio spectrum is...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. The report is based on the findings of a major MIT symposium on retrofitting coal-fired power...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia,
researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic"
exposure of different countries to future climate change.
The research team from
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Location: Purdue University, United States
Researchers who study severe weather and climate
change joined forces to study the effects of global...
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Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory, DOE, United States
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new tool for quantitatively measuring elusive atmospheric chemicals that play a key role in the formation of...
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Location: 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA 99352, United States
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have created a new
red fluorescent probe to label proteins and quantitatively monitor their
interactions in living cells. This probe adds to a toolkit of biarsenical dyes
developed...
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Location: xx, United Kingdom
Highlighting the extreme weather conditions hitting Europe, space sensors aboard ESA’s Envisat satellite have detected the worst floodwaters to hit Britain for 60 years and deadly fires raging through southern Europe.
Heavy rains...
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Location: West Lafayette, IN 47907,Purdue University, United States
A study led by a Purdue University researcher projects a 200 percent to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the end of the 21st century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. The...
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Location: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853, United States
A key component of the research has been testing at very large scale in the
Winter Laboratory. Large-scale experiments sponsored by NSF through MCEER and
the U.S.-Japan Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Program in conjunction with...
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Location: Michigan,College of Engineering, University of Michigan, United States
The first detailed images of a binary asteroid system reveal a bizarre world where the highest points on the surface are actually the lowest, and the two asteroids dance in each other's gravitational pull.
A binary asteroid is a system where...
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