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Jorge Salazar
Nanotech may revolutionize agriculture
He said nanotech - the control of matter at the atomic scale - can make our animal food systems safer.
March 31, 2009
Amazon smoke slows formation of clouds, rainfall
Listen to atmospheric scientist Ilan Koren talk about the effects of man-made forest fires on weather in the Amazon basin and Amazon smoke.
March 29, 2009
Nuclear weapons can be controlled
Seismologist Paul Richards says that scientists can now detect any nuclear test of military significance, no matter how secret. He feels nuclear weapons can be controlled.
March 24, 2009
Birds: Citizen scientists help counting birds
Citizen scientists, ordinary folks like you and me, contributed in counting birds through bird surveys.
March 19, 2009
Jennifer Kuzma urges consumer transparency for nanoproducts
Jennifer Kuzma talks about the impact of nanotechnology - the engineering of materials at the atomic scale - on the food we eat.
March 17, 2009
Chemicals on Mars: Possible evidence of life?
Peter Smith, Principal Investigator of NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission talks about some possible evidence of signs of life in Martian soil by studying chemicals on Mars.
March 9, 2009
Cities can plan ahead for global warming
According to expert Jack Fellows, thinks that if cities plan ahead, they might be able to sell their adaptive knowledge and technologies.
March 6, 2009
Nano sensors may help farmers manage crops
Strickland said, " The specific idea was to incorporate nano sensors into pesticide spray, so that you can monitor how well the crop field was sprayed for pests, or while adding nutrients to the crop field."
March 5, 2009
Rosalyn Berne urges caution for nano in agriculture
Rosalyn Berne studies the ethics of nanotechnology. She said we don't understand what happens to nano products used in agriculture, at the point when that product filled with nano particles washes into the soil.
March 4, 2009
Satellite down: The night a satellite crashed
The OCO satellite splashed into the sea near Antarctica Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, leaving eight years of preparation to study Earth's carbon cycle from space unrealized.
February 24, 2009
