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- National briefs: Care for crabs
- ZOOLOGY students from Cambridge University have produced a leaflet on crab care for young beachcombers. Children are warned not to overcrowd buckets, to keep crabs in seawater and out of direct sunlight.
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- U.S. Government Proposes Four-Star Safety Sunscreen Ratings
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today proposed a new four-star rating system for over-the-counter sunscreen drug products with ultraviolet A UVA and ultraviolet B UVB protection. The proposed regulations would for the first time put a permanent safety standard...
- Research articles 2007-08-23
- Sunlight Foundation and Helium Partner to Promote Transparency in Politics
- Hot Issues on the Hill Debated at Helium.com ANDOVER, Mass. -- Helium, a directory of real-world knowledge, powered by people like you, and the Sunlight Foundation, an organization dedicated to leveraging the Internet to increase transparency in Congress, today announced a strategic partnership. Issues raised by the Sunlight Foundation...
- Research articles 2007-07-26
- New solar lighting is nearing market
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- A hybrid solar lighting technology that delivers natural lighting to a building with 50% efficiency is expected to enter the market in 2008. Developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL, the technology uses a rooftop-mounted 48 in....
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Italian village basks in winter sunlight thanks to giant mirror
- ROME AFP — Sun-deprived humans might consider moving to the northern Italian village of Viganella, basking in sunlight thanks to a giant mirror. "I've waited for this moment for seven years," when an architect friend began pondering solutions for the sun-challenged hamlet nestled in the Ossola valley, mayor Pierfranco Midali...
- Research articles 2006-12-17
- In the dark of winter, the Light Cafe chases the blues away
- STOCKHOLM AFP — It's pitch black outside in wintry Stockholm but indoors at the all-white Light Cafe, guests recline comfortably in white armchairs as they soak up a dose of artificial sunlight to fight off the winter blues. In the depths of winter, daylight in the Swedish capital lasts from...
- Research articles 2006-11-15
- Samsung announces "intelligent" chip which reacts to light
- SEOUL AFP — South Korea's Samsung Electronics announced an "intelligent" light-sensitive microchip, allowing displays on devices like mobile phones to be clearly seen even in bright sunlight. The new display chips will maintain image quality on liquid crystal display screens by automatically measuring sunlight and adjusting the backlight, the company...
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- Polluted Skies and Global Warming Puzzle Decoded
- GREENBELT, Maryland ENS — --> The formation of clouds is affected by the lightness or darkness of air pollution particles, U.S. and Israeli scientists have determined, solving one puzzing question about the role of clouds in global warming. The capacity of air pollution to absorb energy from the Sun is...
- Research articles 2006-07-14
- Global gloom goes from bad to worse
- Ahh, the warm days of spring. Family-focused robins flit ceaselessly seeking straw for their nests. Daffodils burst bright into the sunlight. Television reminds us that we're all doomed. Global warming is the topic for the week that culminates Saturday with Earth Day, when HBO will present a primer on...
- Research articles 2006-04-18
- Discipline, 'Reframing' Keys to Fighting Winter Blues, Expert Says.
- Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 11 AScribe Newswire -- As the long, dark stretch of winter lingers on, it can be a struggle for some people to keep the blues at bay, but there are several tips that can help until spring...
- Research articles 2006-01-11
- Archimedes screwed up.(History in the Media)(Archimedes' death ray)(Brief Article)
- Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona have performed tests in San Francisco Bay to determine the feasibility of Archimedes' death ray. The researchers created a 300-sq-metre bronze and glass mirror to focus sunlight and set fire to a fishing boat 150ft...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- European probe sniffs out a site for lunar outpost
- CAMBRIDGE, England AFP — An experimental European probe has spotted a tiny area on the Moon that could be a promising site to set up a future manned outpost, a mission scientist revealed. Measuring "just a few square kilometers miles across" and located near the Moon's North Pole, the...
- Research articles 2005-09-06
- ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: Quantum Dots Could Boost Solar Efficiency.
- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL have shown that colloidal nanocrystalline semiconductor quantum dots may greatly increase the amount of electricity produced by solar cells. According to their studies, reported in the May issue of Nano ...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- AUTOMATION CROPS UP HERE
- Clay Mitchell runs the family business from his office on wheels. It's not what you're thinking. Mitchell doesn't work the cell phone while driving between meetings. He conducts business from the tractor cab: sending e-mails, returning telephone calls, monitoring and controlling the programmable logic controllers that operate the grain handling...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- NREL Finds Quantum Dots Can Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL recently released a new study which finds that tiny nanocrystals, known as "quantum dots," are capable of producing as many as three electrons from one high-energy photon of sunlight, compared to current photovoltaic solar cell technology, which converts one photon of sunlight...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Quantum Dots Can Boost Output.
- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL have shown that nanotechnology may greatly increase the amount of electricity produced by solar cells. In a paper published in a May issue of the American Chemical Society's Nano Letters journal, an NREL team...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Moon offers place in Sun for future colony
- PARIS AFP — Astronomers say they have identified a place on the Moon that lies in permanent sunlight and close to regions suspected to hold water ice: in short, an ideal location for a tentative lunar colony. The spot is located on a highland close to the lunar north...
- Research articles 2005-04-13
- Church bells ring out as Spain remembers blast victims
- MADRID AFP — Church bells tolled across Madrid as Spain marked the first anniversary of the train bombings which killed 191 people in the country's worst-ever terrorist attack. Politicians and city authorities stood in quiet reflection Friday as the bells of the city's 650 churches rang out, one by...
- Research articles 2005-03-11
- Engineers developing 'solar sail' to power deep-space exploration vehicles.
- By Kurt Loft, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 22--TAMPA, Fla. -- Let's say you want to send a crew of astronauts to Pluto and back. The first thing you need is enough fuel for a round trip stretching...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
- DOE Awards CU-Boulder $1.2 Million for Hydrogen Production
- The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) recently announced that the Department of Energy DOE has awarded the school $1.2 million over four years for "a novel proposal to produce clean hydrogen fuel by using concentrated sunlight to split water." According to CU-Boulder chemical and biological engineering department professor...
- Research articles 2004-11-02
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