The golden glow of street lights could soon be replaced by the green fluorescence of tree leaves. Scientists from the Academia Sinica and the National Cheng Kung University in Taipei and Tainan have implanted glowing gold nanoparticles, known as bio–light emitting diodes, or bio-LEDs, inside the leaves of a plant.
The sea urchin–shaped nanoparticles […] Read More »
By Alan Burdick
I’m always struck by how quiet ocean documentaries are. One hears the ghostly soundings of whales, of course, the eager pip of dolphins, the clacking of a crab’s claws. But invariably, as if to cover for an awkward and extended natural silence, the sound track swoops in, alternately dreamy and orchestral, […] Read More »
Imagine a breakthrough that creates free fertilizer, allows poor farmers to increase yields while conserving land, and is not only carbon-neutral but actually absorbs CO2.
What is this amazing innovation? Dennis Garrity likes to call it a tree. “This is quite a novel concept,” he says. “In the future, we may see agriculture occurring […] Read More »
Frog
By Thomas Marent
DK Publishing, 2010
Frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are glamorously captured in this extensive anthology of amphibians. Organizing into four
sections—identity, body form, survival, and reproduction—Thomas Marent focuses his lens on every detail of the frog world. His images reveal a constellation of characters in this universe—now totaling 5,550 recognized […] Read More »
By John McQuaid
For several weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig collapsed last April 18, nobody knew how much oil the busted wellhead was releasing into the Gulf of Mexico—only that the quantity was huge. Without that critical data point, there was no way to gauge the growing size or potential impact of the […] Read More »
By Carl Zimmer
Win-win solutions can be hard to come by. But if Cornell University soil scientist Johannes Lehmann is right, there may be a way to lower our emission of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, save millions of people’s lives, and significantly boost the productivity of the world’s farms—all at the same time. And, most […] Read More »
Slowing deforestation is one of the most straightforward and effective means of reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. It might also be expected to reduce the frequency of forest fires, which are big contributors to carbon emissions in their own right. But new research suggests a startling paradox: in the Amazon, reducing the rate […] Read More »
2010: Gold Excel Award for General Excellence from Association Media & Publishing (formerly SNAP); Best American Science and Nature Writing: Not So Silent Spring by Dawn Stover; Special Recognition from The Knight-Risser Prize for Troubled Teens by Dawn Stover.
2009: Gold Excel Award for General Excellence from the Society of National Association Publications (SNAP); […] Read More »
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Changing the BatteryFlamingos stand precariously on top of one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium—the very stuff that powers our mobile world
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Shrink to FitHumanity appears to be ushering in new age of minifauna, a kind of Lilliputian world full of runts and dwarves |
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Chasing RainbowsLured by a utopian visions, agencies dropped billions of trout into thousands of lakes. Now, they’re determined to undo the damage they caused. |
