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Location: Cambridge, United States
Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a
daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps...
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Location: Washington DC, United States
Computing and communicating through the Web makes it virtually impossible to
leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a
job interview; a lost or stolen laptop can expose personal photos or messages;
or a...
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae
that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously,
these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring the next big breakthrough in
computer...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
Scientists since the early '90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain kinds of pollutants into harmless...
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Location: 4800 Oak Grove Drive , Pasadena, CA 91109, United States
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is examining several features on
Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history.
Features examined with the orbiter's advanced instruments include material...
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Location: Cornell Chronicle • 312 College Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850 • (607) 255-4206, United States
The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop computer revolution.
Hod Lipson, Cornell...
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