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Worldwatch says oil consumption has hit an all-time high
The global financial crisis was just a blip on the upward climb of oil consumption, according to a new report by Worldwatch Institute, released this week.
August 17, 2011
Agave featured on Lifeform of the Week
Sobriety? Energy crises? Whatever the problem, agave can lend a prickly hand.
August 17, 2011
Measles and cholera in refugee camps in Somalia
Cholera and measles are killing hundreds of people in Somalia and the Horn of Africa, most of them children already weakened by starvation.
August 17, 2011
NASA confirms Earth isn’t expanding
The average change in Earth's radius is 0.004 inches per year, or about the thickness of a human hair, a rate considered statistically insignificant.
August 16, 2011
Electronic tattoos are more than skin deep
The epidermal electronic system (EES) is like a short-lived tattoo that can conform to the skin in difficult-to-monitor areas like the throat.
August 16, 2011
Fukushima reactor radiation release calculated
Measuring radioactive sulfur in California let researchers calculate how much radiation released from Fukushima reactors. Read more.
August 15, 2011
Indiana State Fair tragedy and heeding weather warnings
Can we use the Indiana State Fair tragedy to learn from our mistakes? Read more about the incident and weather conditions here.
August 15, 2011
A drug to cure nearly any virus in MIT discovery
In tests, the new drug was effective against rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, the swine flu virus H1N1, a stomach virus, a polio virus and dengue fever.
August 15, 2011
Ben Horton: Sea level rise faster now than in 2,000 years
A team has direct physical evidence - microscopic fossils from a North Carolina salt marsh - that sea level rise is faster now than in the past 2,000 years.
August 15, 2011
2011 Gulf of Mexico dead zone smaller than scientists predicted
Tropical Storm Don might have disrupted the Gulf of Mexico dead zone in the summer of 2011, making it smaller than scientists originally predicted.
August 14, 2011
