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Sustainable city recipe: location is everything
Columbia University urban designer Mitchell Joachim talks about designing an environmentally friendly city from scratch. "Location is everything," he says.
November 8, 2008
Earth-like planets: The hunt is on
NASA astronomer Drake Deming talks about using brightness detectors similar to those on digital cameras to help in the hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars.
November 7, 2008
Sports in space
We’re in the midst of a financial hornets’ nest, Afghanistan is still in turmoil, and the planet continues to warm....
November 3, 2008
Biomedical science: Stress test for astronauts
In biomedical science, a scientist working with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute is developing a stress test for astronauts in space.
October 29, 2008
First humans in China 1.7 million years ago
Stone tools and 2 front teeth, found decades ago, were recently dated by paleoanthropologists. It's evidence that the first humans arrived in China 1.7 million years ago.
October 26, 2008
Robots pump more iron with fuel-powered muscles
Nanoscientist Ray Baughman is steering humanoid robots towards a power system that mimics our own human muscles and doesn't need to be plugged in to recharge.
October 24, 2008
Sleep needed to downscale the brain’s synapses
Chiara Cirelli is working to understand the function of sleep. She believes we need sleep to refresh our synapses, which connect brain cells.
October 23, 2008
Smelling sounds with the help of hypnosis
Smelling sounds? Sure, it's possible. Sometimes hypnosis can mingle your senses. You can smell a hand clapping, for example. Read more here.
October 22, 2008
Beef production has high cost to climate
Beef production has a high impact on climate. Eating less red meat can help cut back on the greenhouse gas emissions now implicated in climate change.
October 18, 2008
DNA in plant and animals – what’s the difference?
In the center of every plant cell, from algae to orchids - and in the center of every animal cell, from jellyfish to you and me - there's a copy of the organism's DNA.
October 13, 2008
