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Computing after Moore’s Law [Slide Show]
The technologies chip makers hope can keep Moore’s Law alive - News Energy & Sustainability
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China Rising—a Burgeoning Industrial Superpower Built on Coal [Excerpt]
The People’s Republic now produces more than three billion tons of coal a year, and the fossil fuel has played a key role in accelerating the nation’s growth, along with its carbon dioxide emissions, dating to the early 20th century - News Energy & Sustainability
The Enduring Mystery of the Missing Oil Spilt in the Gulf of Mexico
On the beach, in the marshes, on the continental shelf and under the deep sea—and still not all of the oil has been found - News Space
Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100,000 Nearby Galaxies
The most far-seeing search ever performed for “Dyson spheres” and other artifacts of “astroengineering” comes up empty. Where is everybody? - Extinction Countdown Energy & Sustainability
A New Tool for Conservation Genetics: Seal Placentas
It's a sad fact that as members of a species become rarer they tend to suffer from inbreeding. This lack of genetic diversity can lead to birth defects and other problems, making a species even more endangered as time progresses. - Climatewire Energy & Sustainability
Landmark Deal Curbs Flaring Pollution
Top oil-producing nations and companies pledge to eliminate the waste of natural gas that also exacerbates global warming - Talking back Mind & Brain
Learning to Make a Stone Age Axe Gives Clues to How the Brain Evolved
For many decades, scientists have tried to understand the past by doing as our forebears did. One important endeavor in what is called experimental archaeology involves moderns crafting Stone Age tools by chipping away at rocks. - Anecdotes from the Archive More Science
Heavy Guns Blast Trenches, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: April 17, 1915 World War I was an artillery war. In the opening days, the German army used a new variety of siege gun to blast holes in the Belgian and French forts that had been designed and built—decades earlier—to bar passage. - Special Editions Volume 24, Issue 1s Health
Sitting in a Chair Could Be Killing You
Standing more could lower risk for obesity, illness and death, studies suggest - News Technology
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Fateful Phone Call Spawned Moore’s Law [Excerpt]
Nobel laureate physicist William Shockley recruited Gordon Moore to help advance transistor technology, kicking off the creation of Silicon Valley and the digital revolution itself - Climate Central Energy & Sustainability
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Pollution Jumped 2 Percent in 2013
U.S. emissions resumed an upward trajectory - Climate Central Energy & Sustainability
Grid Defection Likely to Prove Minority Pursuit in U.S.
Most companies and analysts think that Americans will find it hard to cut ties with the power grid - News Mind & Brain
Is the Gaze from Those Big Puppy Eyes the Look of Your Doggie's Love?
Research finds that sustained eye contact between a dog and its owner causes oxytocin to spike in both—but not so in wolves. What it means remains to be seen - News Mind & Brain
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Mad Science: The Treatment of Mental Illness Fails to Progress [Excerpt]
Recent questions about the validity of diagnostic criteria for mental illness have raised deeper questions about the current state of psychiatry - Not bad science Mind & Brain
Lost Penguin Chicks Try To Find Their Way Home
King penguins are pretty social animals. Not only do they tend to hang out in a big group, but even within the group, they form little sub-groups; cliques of penguins who like to hang out together. - Tetrapod Zoology Evolution
People Are Modifying Monitors to Make Gargantuan Geckos
Over the last several days a consortium of people interested in herpetology, weird animals, animal lore, and special effects have worked together to help resolve an incredible and bizarre `mystery'*. - Climatewire Energy & Sustainability
Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas Wells Now Top Polluters
The oil and gas industry surges past cows as top U.S. methane emitter - Beautiful Minds Mind & Brain
Are Social Daydreams Related to Well-Being?
Daydreaming often gets a bad reputation. While yes– researchers have associated “lapses of attention” with memory loss and depression, here’s the thing: not all daydreaming is a lapse of attention. - Bring Science Home More Science
The Big Eggshell Breakdown
Put de-shelled eggs in different liquids and watch how they grow and shrink - Video Mind & Brain
Is Spring Fever Real? – Instant Egghead #68
Spring fever: that phenomenon that lifts our moods and awakens our libido from hibernation after a long winter. But is it real? Scientific American contributor Yasmin Tayag explains.
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