There have been an inordinate number of earthquakes in Arkansas as of late, and one possible cause could be our efforts to extract natural gas from the ground.
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Land Usage Impacting Climate Near Mount Kilimanjaro
Many advocates for the theory of man-made global warming point to the receding glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro as clear evidence, but now research claims that it's actually deforestation that is leading to the loss of the mountain's icecap.
Read More »Professors Warn of Climate Change’s Effects on Food Supply
Professors speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science warned against the effects that climate change could have on the world's food supplies.
Read More »Study Says Green Energy Could Power Earth Within 40 Years
Stanford and University of California-Davis researchers have concluded that, with a steady and committed change in how we operate, the whole of the world could be free from almost all fossil fuels within 50 years.
Read More »Taste of Tech: Biohacking the Future
You might think that genetic engineering is an incredibly complex, expensive, and high-tech process. And that�s where you�d be wrong.
Read More »Taste of Tech: Tangled Webs of Health, Purity, and Processed Food
Michelle Obama teams up with Walmart to fight obesity and bring down the cost of healthy food. But the problems of processed food emerged from yesterday's answers to questions of purity, safety, and health; will the future be any different? The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.
Read More »The Faint Rustle of Power
Harnessing the piezoelectric effect, researchers at Cornell propose a wind-power generator that has more in common with rustling leaves than airplane rotors. Videos after the jump.
Read More »Unspooling the plastic maker movement
2010 is the year fabrication technology and 3D printing came to the masses�or at least to Brooklyn. But is this a good thing?
Read More »Feed your inner panda with a bamboo keyboard
This sweat-absorbing, all-natural peripheral promises "a deep feeling of peace, calm and tranquility."
Read More »LEGO NXT Robots Get Solar Power
Now that you can control your NXT robot with your Android phone, rather than using yet another electronic device, there are ways to save the planet even further, thanks to Dexter Industries’ dSolar Systems. The 9V solar power system allows you to rig your Mindstorms NXT robots for harnessing the power of the sun. The solar system provides about 250 ...
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