28/02/2007

Iron in Northwest rivers fuels phytoplankton, fish populations

A new study suggests that the iron-rich winter runoff from Pacific Northwest streams and rivers, combined with the wide continental shelf, form a potent mechanism for fertilizing the nearshore Pacific Ocean, leading to robust ...

Fats into jet fuel -- NC State 'green' technology licensed

New biofuels technology developed by North Carolina State University engineers has the potential to turn virtually any fat source – vegetable oils, oils from animal fat and even oils from algae – into fuel to power jet ...

Physicists pioneer new super-thin technology (Update)

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create a new type of technology, which could be used to make super-fast electronic components and speed up the development of drugs.

Defining Planets

In 2005, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology and his team discovered a large body in the outer solar system. It was not the first distant object that had been found in the Kuiper Belt -- the region is ...

Slowly does it as giant magnet goes underground at CERN

At 5:00 am GMT this morning the heaviest piece of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector began a momentous journey into its experimental cavern, 100 metres underground at CERN, Geneva. You can watch it on the webcam ...

page 2 from 3