View of the OPERA detector in Gran Sasso, Italy. Neutrino beams from CERN in Switzerland are sent over 700km through the Earth’s crust to the laboratory in Italy. Image Source: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/
During experiments conducted during the last few months at CERN, otherwise known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland and an Italian laboratory, physicists have been studying tiny sub-atomic particles called neutrinos. continue reading...
Now you can actually use garbage to help clean your home! continue reading...
Scientific American has created a very cool interactive article that looks at 12 ways the world will be altered forever as we know it. Some are super cool, some are super scary, but all are fascinating. Below is the list of events, but be sure to click through to the article for a lot more information and interactivity. continue reading...
Spam has a carbon footprint. The time and energy wasted by spam email uses the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion gallons of gas. The majority of the energy consumed is due to spam maintenance, a study has found. “If spam filters were used universally, the energy saved would be equivalent to taking 2.3 million cars off the road, the report said.“ Read more… continue reading...
According to Dr. Peter McCabe, a world-renowned scientist currently working at CSIRO in Australia, the world is not in an oil crisis. In fact, we have enough to last us at least the next thirty years. Same goes for coal and natural gas. This is despite recent increases in oil use throughout the world. Apparently, thirty years is more than enough time for us to wean off our oil dependency. No reason to panic, he says. But, unfortunately, with no reason to panic, we may think we also have no reason to act. Read more… continue reading...
Wind energy may eventually become an important energy source. Which means you should know something about it. Here are five common misconceptions about wind energy that are not true: continue reading...
Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth’s superheated mantle. This is the heat that helps cause volcanoes, geysers and hot springs. And it is the heat that powers a modest number of electricity generators around the world, from Iceland to Indonesia. continue reading...
