New Stanford research outlines the path to a possible future for California in which renewable energy creates a healthier environment, generates jobs and stabilizes energy prices. Imagine a... Read more
A newly launched satellite will reveal even more about the planet’s workings than originally planned
Monitoring Earth: Gaia’s breath THE ten-and-a-half minutes it took a Delta 2 rocket to lift OCO-2 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to a parking orbit 190km above Earth on July 2n... Read more
Can you create water out of thin air? An Israeli company is doing just that and is providing its technology to militaries in seven nations including the U.S., Israel and an un-named Arab nat... Read more
“It’s like a switch we can turn on and off to modulate how plants cope with water stress.” A three-year drought has farmers and food companies seeking new strategies in sec... Read more
It could offer some relief to the West’s long-running water wars. The giant solar receiver installed on a wheat field here in California’s agricultural heartland slowly rotates to track the... Read more
Our behavior here in the valley feels untenable and self-destructive EVERY Saturday in late December and January, as reports of brutal temperatures and historic snowfalls streamed in from fa... Read more
If someone is described as “smiling, but not with their eyes,” that person is likely faking the smile. But what does that mean, exactly? And how can one tell a real grin from a f... Read more
Two childhood friends spent a decade, beginning in college, figuring out how to cheaply make plastic from carbon that’s been captured from the atmosphere. A decade ago in his Princeton... Read more
Electric power companies challenge “net metering” policies, saying nonsolar households end up with higher costs. An energy revolution is happening atop homes in the United States, with one n... Read more
Five hundred miles southeast of Hawai’i, in international waters far out of sight of any land, there are vast mineral resources 5,000 meters below the sea. Manganese nodules, rich in c... Read more
“This technology could give customers control over what they want to do and when” It’s a thrifty trick used by households from L.A. to Luxembourg, or anywhere where utilities charge less for... Read more
Americans place high value on butterfly royalty. A recent study suggests they are willing to support monarch butterfly conservation at high levels, up to about 6 ½ billion dollars if extrapo... Read more
Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion – the process that powers the S... Read more
For almost two years, hackers based in Shanghai went after one foreign defense contractor after another, at least 20 in all. Their target, according to an American cybersecurity company that... Read more
A new software pipeline could radically change the way objects are replicated in personal and commercial 3-D printers. MIT‘s OpenFab, which will be formally unveiled later this month a... Read more
