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By Kristen HaysHOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp on Wednesday was digging out oiled lawns to replace them with fresh sod in an Arkansas neighborhood where a crude oil pipeline ruptured last week, but the line remained shut with no estimate of when it would restart, the company said.While response crews had begun removing oiled dirt and grass around houses in the subdivision, a plan to excavate the area around the pipeline breach remained under development for U.S. [More]
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By Timothy GardnerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is inching ahead with a plan that would allow wastewater from fracking to be shipped on barges, fueling a debate whether it is safer than other transportation modes or risks polluting drinking water.The Coast Guard last month quietly sent to the White House's Office of Management and Budget a proposal to allow the barging of fracking wastewater. [More]
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A scientist from the National Center for Toxicological Research analyzes microarray results to measure and assess the level of genes found in a tissue sample. FDA photo by Michael J. Ermarth. [More]
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A $2-billion particle detector mounted on the International Space Station has registered an excess of antimatter particles in space, the experiment’s lead scientist announced April 3. That excess could come from fast-spinning stellar remnants known as pulsars and other exotic, but visible sources within the Milky Way galaxy. Or the antiparticles might have originated from the long-sought dark matter, the hypothetical massive particles that constitute some 27 percent of the universe.
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[caption id="attachment_11523" align="alignleft" width="385" caption="A scene from Valerie Veatch's new film Love Child."] [/caption]In March 2010, police in South Korea arrested a husband and wife in a tragically ironic case that gained international notoriety --the couple let their three-month-old daughter, Sarang, starve to death in their apartment while they spent up to 12 hours a day nurturing a virtual daughter as part of 3-D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game […]
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It was an anti-climax: the President of the United States clocking in after The New York Times had already spilled the beans about his big brain program, a centerpiece of the administration's second-term, legacy-making efforts in the science arena. After the Times article, everyone had, for weeks, written, speculated, chewed over and made preparations for the Imminent Big Thing (an Apollo program or Human Genome Project of the Mind), to which an oblique but cryptic mention had popped out […]
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In a little over a week – on Saturday, April 14, in fact – I’m giving a talk to the Mystery Writers of America-Mid Atlantic Chapter. I was invited by one of my favorite mystery writers, Art Taylor, who was ...
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A years-long marriage of convenience that linked Google and Apple browser technologies is ending in divorce.In a move that Google says will technologically liberate both Chrome and Safari, the company has begun its own offshoot of the WebKit browser engine project called Blink . [More]
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By Stan Alcorn The Obama Administration just announced huge funding for a project to study the brain. [More]
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The last time the Earth enjoyed greenhouse gas levels like those of today was roughly 4 million years ago, during an era known as the Pliocene. The extra heat of average temperatures as much as 4 degrees Celsius warmer turned the tropical oceans into a nice warm pool of bathwater, as noted by new research published in Nature on April 4. [More]
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Scientists cracked the recipe of the paint used on pottery and human sacrifices, alike.
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Between is a state of being for Archaeopteryx. No mere transitory stage, this; even at maturity, with greying feathers and dulled claws, the Archaeopteryx is always between, with attributes that may serve some future incarnation but now are more hindrance then help.No matter. When between is your birthright, you learn to live with it. Predators on the ground, predators in the air, and between them is Archaeopteryx, sometimes falling prey to one, sometimes to another, destined to outpace them […]
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One of the joys of the world of blogging is the guest post. The Renaissance Mathematicus has provided cyberspace to a couple of excellent guest posts in the past and hopes to attract some more in the future. As many … Continue reading →
