Jul 12 2011

Cities Can Be Carbon Sinks Too

Tag: Birds,Building,Cars,Exhaust and Emissions,Forests,Golf,Green,Islands,Parks,Rivers,Scientists,Shrubs,Storage,Trees,Video,Waste — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:14 pm
Cities can be of surprising help in soaking up carbon pollution.

Jul 04 2011

Bald Eagle Soars to Freedom on July 4th

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animals,Current Events,Fish,Video,Wild Birds,Wildlife Conservation — Jennifer Viegas @ 9:21 am
"Einstein," an adult bald eagle, is now soaring over America after his release July 4th from the University of Missouri's Raptor Rehabilitation Project, where the once-ailing bird underwent treatment.

Jun 30 2011

Roller Pen Writes Electronic Circuitry

Tag: Apps,Batteries,Business,Computers,Devices,Electronic Art,Electronics,Engineering,Experiments,High School,How to Draw,Light,Materials,Materials Science,Nanotech,Paper,Particles,RFID,Science,Soldiers,Storage,Technology,Video,Windows — Alyssa Danigelis @ 2:41 pm
The rollerball pen dispenses conductive silver ink, enabling electrical circuits to be drawn directly on paper and other surfaces.

Jun 29 2011

Twenty-five-foot-long Giant Squid Found off Florida’s Coast

Tag: Adventure,Animal Behavior,Animals,Current Events,Marine Life,Oceans,Photography,Science and Technology,Video,Weird News — Jennifer Viegas @ 4:14 pm
Recreational fishermen on Monday found a rare 25-foot-long giant squid floating off the Florida coast, according to a University of Florida press release.

Jun 27 2011

Fire and Flood Threaten Research Center and Nuclear Plant

Tag: Blogs,Design,Floods,Government,Laboratories,Materials,Nuclear Science,Plants,Rivers,Seas,Tornadoes,Video,Wildfires,Wind — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:36 pm
In New Mexico, fire and smoke has shut down the Los Alamos National Lab, and in Nebraska, floodwaters are closing in on the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.

Jun 27 2011

Volkswagen Shows Off Auto Pilot For Cars

Tag: Auto,Cars,Computers,Driving,Eye,Internet,Laser,Printers and Scanners,Radar,Sensors,Technology,The Future,Trains,Vehicles,Video — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:01 pm
The technology allows a car to drive semi-automatically at speeds of up to 80 mph on highways.

Jun 26 2011

Drug Boosts Snakebite Survival Time By Half

Tag: Experiments,Explosives,First Aid,Humans,Immune System,Life Science,Lymphatic System,Mystery,Oceania and Australia,Poison,Robots,Scientists,Snakes,Streams,Survival,Video — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:55 pm
Researchers in Australia showed that a class of compounds called nitric oxide donors delays the entry of toxins from potentially deadly snakebites.

Jun 26 2011

British Climber Finds Six Dead in French Alps

Tag: Avalanches and Mudslides,Climbing,Fall,Family,Helicopter,Mountain Climbing,Police,Summer,Video,Winter — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:22 pm
Six people who died Saturday in a slide of snow and stones were found Sunday.

Jun 14 2011

Curb Soot and Smog to Keep Earth Cool, Says UN

Tag: Africa,Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing,Animals,Arctic Regions,Asia,Cars,Climate,Climate Change,Coal,Cooking,Death and Dying,Earth,Environment,Exhaust and Emissions,Fossil Fuels,Glaciers,Global Warming,Heat Waves,Heating,Lung Cancer,NASA,Organic,Parks and Forests,Particles,Pigs,Rice and Grains,Science,Scientists,The Sun,Vehicles,Video,Waste — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:21 pm
Sharply reducing emissions of soot and smog could play a critical role in preventing Earth from overheating.

Jun 10 2011

New Dino May Be World’s Smallest

Tag: Animals,Antarctica,Bees,Birds,Carnivores,Consumption,Dinosaurs,Earth,Europe,Fossils,Fruit,Insects,Mountains,Museums and Tours,Omnivores,Tyrannosaurus,Video — Jennifer Viegas @ 3:39 pm
This dinosaur may be pint-sized, but it was still a predator.
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