Aug 03 2011

Reuse Old Bottle Caps in Funky Table Lamp Kit

Tag: Design,Drinks,Eco-Friendly Lighting,Food,Gadgets,Green Your Electricity,Materials,Recycling,Reuse,Visual Arts,Waste and Recycling — Katherine Noyes @ 12:07 pm
Why throw your caps away when they could create a unique work of table lamp art?

Aug 02 2011

Forty-One Percent of U.S. Abnormally Dry

Tag: Food,Heat Waves,Maps,Meteorology,Summer — Tim Wall @ 6:53 pm
Conditions are the driest they have been in 12 years since the Drought Monitor began keeping tabs on parched regions around the United States.

Jul 29 2011

Multiyear Drought in East Africa

Tag: Climate Change,Deserts,Drought,Food,Global Warming,Heat Waves,Meteorology,Natural Disasters — Tim Wall @ 9:57 am
Refugees seeking food security from drought and civil-war ravaged Somalia find floods instead.

Jul 27 2011

Teens Find Weeds in Tea

Tag: Chemistry,Everyday Science,Food,Food Unwrapped,Genetic Science,Plants — Tim Wall @ 2:43 pm
Students in high school conducted DNA tests on teas and found herbal brews contained common weeds.

Jul 22 2011

Titanium Straw Out-Muscles All Others

Tag: Cooling,Drinks,Food,Gadgets,Green Tech,Materials,Plastic,Reuse,Waste and Recycling,Zero Waste — Katherine Noyes @ 1:34 pm
Forget those wimpy plastic substitutes -- this is the only straw you really need.

Jul 21 2011

Electronic ‘Tongue’ Evaluates Fruit

Tag: Biomimetics,Computer Software,Computers,Electricity,Food,Health,Persuasive Technology,Robotics — Nic Halverson @ 6:44 pm
The system electronically measures the antioxidant powers of juice, fruit and fruit puree.

Jul 21 2011

Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animals,Dinosaur Era Animals,Dinosaurs,Extinct Animals,Food,Fossils,Insects and Arachnids,Paleontology — Jennifer Viegas @ 3:51 pm
The eggs were good eats, as well as home, to numerous scavenging insects.

Jul 21 2011

Stealth Clay Planter Conceals a Barbecue Grill

Tag: Food,Gadgets — Katherine Noyes @ 12:31 pm
Part terracotta planter, part barbecue grill, this stealth device lets you plant your herbs and then use them for grilling.

Jul 20 2011

Crops Indirectly Deforest Amazon

Tag: Food,Plants,Trees — Tim Wall @ 2:21 pm
Soybeans and sugarcane crops have increased deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil, but not directly.

Jul 20 2011

Chemical Arms Race: Opossum vs. Viper

Tag: Amphibians and Reptiles,Animal Behavior,Animals,Evolution,Food,Mammals,Snakes — Tim Wall @ 10:54 am
What's driven vipers to evolve a deadly venom? A need to defend themselves against opossums.
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