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Why Environmentalists Oppose One of the Best Ways to Cut Carbon Emissions
Humans may be wired to respond more to immediate issues like fracking than longer term ones like global warming.
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GE Stalls Solar Factory Construction
It says it needs to improve its thin-film solar panel technology to compete.
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Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
Infrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan, say scientists.
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A123 Has Four to Five Months of Cash Left
The electric vehicle battery maker edges closer to bankruptcy.
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Path Dependence and the Stupidity of LED Light Bulbs
Why are we cramming 21st century technology into a socket designed by Edison?
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How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
Japanese researchers build a gun capable of stopping speakers in mid-sentence.
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In Debate, Romney Makes Dubious Green Energy Claims
Saying that half of all the 2009 stimulus-supported clean energy companies went out of business is plain wrong.
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The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation
If the cosmos is a numerical simulation, there ought to be clues in the spectrum of high energy cosmic rays, say theorists
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Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.
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