Oceans

It was a longer hiatus than anticipated but I’m back to provide you with the headlines that caught my eye over the last two weeks. They are:   Should We Be Cloning Extinct Animals – A Mammoth’s Tale; Fracking Fluid – Colorado Governor’s Latest Cockta

Last week I finished reading Al Gore’s latest tome, a follow up to his well publicized “An Inconvenient Truth,” probably his most significant contribution to the global climate change debate, although I would think “debate” is an over statement at this st

A resort hotel to be built in China plans to use surface heat from the ocean to provide its energy requirements. Called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion or OTEC, this is technology that uses the difference between warm tropical ocean surface water and colder deep water to generate elec

My weekly picks unlike last week are not a single theme but range over many science and technology fields. I hope you find these stories as interesting as I do.   The Universe is 100 Millions Older Than We Thought; Physicists Calculate Doomsday Argument; New 3D Display No Longer

How can a substance that makes up the bulk of our atmosphere here on Earth be a pollutant? I’m talking about nitrogen, the most abundant element in the air we breathe, and an extremely important element in plant nutrition. Our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. But the nitrogen is nonr

It’s been an interesting week for science and technology headlines and here are five I would like to share with you:   Implanted Brain Chips Create Brain-to-Brain Interface; New App for Smartphones Lets You Check Your Urine; Chinese Invent New Water-Saving Irrigation Techno

There has never been a better time in history for us to become collectively engaged in addressing the challenges humanity faces including climate change, energy, food production, social, religious, national and political unrest, space and more. That’s because the Internet and mo

This week’s five stories look at: New 3D Display Represents Advance in Augmented Reality; More Evidence that Fracking Causes Earthquakes; Seeding the Ocean to Sequester Carbon a Non-Starter; New Microscale Actuator Provides Engine for Micro Robots; Using Software to Rebuild Our

This last week we learned that there is frozen water at Mercury’s poles and that water has been detected by Curiosity in its exploration of Gale Crater. Water seems to be abundant in the Solar System but increasingly scarce here on Earth. I’m not talking about oceans of wa