Program aims to develop systems that deliver the goods, then poof out of existence It sounds like an engineering fantasy, or maybe an episode from Mission Impossible: A flock of small, singl... Read more
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have found two new chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and one new hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) in the atmosphere. The research, published today in the j... Read more
Pumping air through a rubbery robot allows it to walk, but now you can make one jump by setting off explosions inside its body. George Whitesides from Harvard University and colleagues have... Read more
The Chameleon was originally developed for the U.S. Marine Corps When it comes to toxic gases, what you can’t see can most definitely hurt you. To improve the safety of military person... Read more
Lab experiments have uncovered a new material that soaks up carbon dioxide and methane There is a new sponge that researchers hope could absorb greenhouse gases from power plants one day. In... Read more
Putting rocks in medical scanners may help the search for oil and gas STRIKING oil is one thing. Getting it out of the ground in economic quantities is quite another. Doing so depends on und... Read more
The center of the Earth is a roiling ball of heat, roughly 6,000 degrees Celsius as near as we can tell without a sci-fi tunneling effort. The closest humanity has come to that molten core i... Read more
IN April, Gov. Jerry Brown made headlines by signing into law an ambitious mandate that requires California to obtain one-third of its electricity from renewable energy sources like sunlight... Read more
Vast newly discovered natural gas resources and the expectation that demand for the fuel will rise substantially in fast-growing economies are ushering in a “Golden Age of Gas,”... Read more