• Not just oil: US hit peak water in 1970 and nobody noticed

    The concept of peak oil, where the inaccessibility of remaining deposits ensures that extraction rates start an irreversible decline, has been the subject of regular debate for decades. Although that argument still hasn't been settled—estimates range from the…

    May 25 2010, 10:43am | Comments »

  • How Plants Secretly Control The Food Chain [Mad Biology]

    Just because plants are at the bottom of the food chain doesn't mean they're helpless. Scientists have discovered that plants have evolved multiple lines of defense against their predators, giving them a surprising amount of control of their…

    March 26 2010, 10:00am | Comments »

  • Not all plants will respond equally to climate change

    As the climate continues to change, some studies suggest that warmer temperatures may help plants bloom earlier and longer. However, that may not be the whole story. An article published in Science details how different plants respond to…

    March 19 2010, 3:01pm | Comments »

  • Can charcoal save the world?

    Terra preta means "black earth". More importantly, if less literally, it means fertile soil—created 1000s of years ago out of nutrient-starved rainforest dirt by the strange alchemy of charcoal. No one knows exactly how Amazonian natives made terra…

    March 14 2010, 1:27pm | Comments »

  • BBC - The Secret Life of Chaos (2010) (Part 1/6)

    Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=664F2AE1160FF884 "Chaos theory has a bad name,…

    January 16 2010, 3:53pm | Comments »

  • Light Bulb Runs On Human Blood [Blood Lamps]

    This new lamp requires some of your blood to keep the lights on, because it uses luminol, a chemical that reacts with the iron in blood to create the glow. Thus giving the robots one more reason to…

    October 5 2009, 12:30pm | Comments »

  • Breathalyzer developed that detects lung cancer

    With every breath, we intake and expel a complex mix of chemicals. The quality of the air that we inhale depends on our immediate environment, but what we exhale is based on the biochemical processes occurring in our…

    August 31 2009, 11:20am | Comments »

  • Diamonds Are A Wound's Best Friend [Mad Science]

    Women tend to like them, meteors tend to make them and De Beers tends to hoard them, but now diamonds turn out to have a more constructive use: making nasty wounds heal faster. Northwestern University scientist Dean Ho…

    July 28 2009, 10:30am | Comments »

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