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Engineers Can Use This New Theory To Build Sprinting Robots
By studying how legged animals, like lizards, move across loose ground, like sand or gravel, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology were able to design a small robot that can run across...
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Lockheed Martin Says This Desalination Technology Is An Industry Game-Changer
The latest technology for removing salt from seawater, developed by Lockheed Martin, will be a game-changer for the industry, according to Ray O. Johnson, senior vice president and chief technology...
View ArticleNew Sinkhole Opens Up Near Deadly Hole That Killed A Florida Man
Sinkhole season is making itself known this year. Less than one month after a sinkhole swallowed and killed a 36-year-old man when the earth opened up underneath his bedroom, another sinkhole formed...
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Where Farming Is Headed, We Don't Need Soil
The concept of vertical farm "skyscrapers" was first imagined a little over a decade ago by Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier. Growing up — not out — Despommier contends, is one solution...
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Chicago Company Has Found The Secret To Growing Vegetables Without Dirt
FarmedHere's CEO Jolanta Hardej runs the nation's largest indoor vertical farm, which had its grand opening in Chicago this week. It's an unlikely move for Hardej, whose only experience working in...
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Climate Scientist Describes Death Threats And Personal Attacks At The Hands...
Since 1996, Michael Mann has been at the forefront of the climate change "debate." That was when he published the first "hockey stick" graph showing the intense upward trend of warming on Earth.(The...
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Researchers Unlock The Mystery Behind Circular Patches In The African Desert
Carnivorous ants, poisonous plants, meteor showers, and underground gas vents have all been considered as possible culprits of "fairy circles"— bare patches of soil bordered by a ring of taller grasses...
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Climatologists Can't Explain Why Global Warming Has Slowed Down
The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought. But that does not mean the problem is going away.OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s...
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MELTDOWN ON THREE MILE ISLAND: What Happened On The Day Of The Nation's Worst...
Thirty-four years ago today, the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history shook the nation to its core. The drama began at 4 a.m. on Three Mile Island, located in the middle of Susquehanna River, near...
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If You Think China's Air Is Bad, You Should See The Water
The unhealthy smog that settled over Beijing earlier this year, capturing international media attention, is not the only visible sign of China's rapid economic growth and the resulting environmental...
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Climate Change Will Turn The Arctic From White To Green
What we currently think of the Arctic — a desolate white wasteland of snow and ice will soon turn to green, laden with trees and shrubs. The changing land will also speed warming.A recent study,...
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At Least 12,000 Barrels Of Crude Oil Spill In Arkansas [PHOTOS] (XOM)
On Friday, an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, spewing thousands of gallons of crude being transported from Canada's oil sands.The 65-year-old Pegasus pipeline remained shut off on...
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Climate Scientist Quits NASA To Testify Against The Government
Now that NASA scientist James E. Hansen is retiring, he will finally be able to pursue a longtime passion: helping climate activists suing the U.S. government. For 46 years Hansen was a pioneering...
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How Carbon Capture Technology Can Almost Turn CO2 Into Cash
If you haven't heard, our airplanes are already getting some of their gas from algae.But that algae needs its own power source — in the form of carbon dioxide, or CO2 — to produce the jet fuel.That's...
View ArticleThe First Look Inside The Sinkhole That Killed A Man In Florida
Florida's Hillsborough County released on Tuesday the first footage inside the sinkhole that killed a Florida man in February as he slept in his bedroom. The crater is about 20 feet wide and 60 feet...
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What America Will Look Like Under 25 Feet Of Seawater
If climate models are correct, then Hurricane Sandy, and the flooding it brought, gave us a gentle preview of the not-so-distant future.A recent NASA study found that between 1992 and 2012, global sea...
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The Sahara Changed From Green To Desert In A Flash
From lakes and grasslands with hippos and giraffes to a vast desert, North Africa's sudden geographical transformation 5,000 years ago was one of the planet's most dramatic climate shifts.The...
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There's An Obvious Fix To China's Pollution Disaster
Worldcrunch is a new global news service that for the first time delivers the best foreign-language journalism in English.BEIJING - Recently the haze that lies over much of China's eastern region,...
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New Photos From Arkansas Oil Spill Show The Full Extent Of The Damage
The cleanup continues after an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying crude from Alberta's tar sands ruptured in Mayflower, Ark., last week. New photos from the EPA show the extent of the damage. At least 60...
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China Battles Bird Flu With Spray And Mass Slaughters [PHOTOS]
A seventh person died in on Sunday from a new strain of deadly bird flu, the H7N9 virus, that has infected at least 24 people in eastern China. That means about thirty percent of those with severe...
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