Sep 16 Watch Alaska’s Resilient Crabs Not Immune to Effects of Rapidly Acidifying Waters Alaska's Resilient Crabs Not Immune to Effects of Rapidly Acidifying Waters… Continue watching
Sep 15 FDR’s Green Dream: The Quoddy Dam Project By Kristin Miller In 1935 construction started on a massive New Deal project proposed by FDR in Passamaquoddy Bay. The Quoddy Dam Project would have stored the rising tide behind multiple dams and then slowly released the water through turbines, producing electricity. But… Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch Can a Small Maine Town’s Innovation Turn the Tides on Sustainable Energy? One of the big obstacles to clean energy is that most renewable sources are unreliable. A Maine company has installed the nation’s first commercial, grid connected tidal energy project. Water power is estimated to nearly double by 2030 and provide… Continue watching
Sep 14 Famed “Feynman Lectures” now available online From the Atlantic Wire today, physics students everywhere can now breathe a sigh of relief because the famed "Feynman Lectures" are now in HTML. Continue reading
Sep 14 A Clockwork Insect: Garden bug sports mechanical gears Many mechanical devices have been inspired by examples in nature, but it's not often that nature replicates something only known to be made by human beings. Meet Issus coeleoptratus, more commonly referred to as a "planthopper". Photo… Continue reading
Sep 14 Hawaii spill reminder of 1919 “Boston Molasses Disaster” (Source: Boston Public Library) The news is full of images of the 230,000 gallons-molasses spill endangering marine life in Hawaii. But this isn't the first time a flood of the sticky substance has caused havoc in the… Continue reading
Sep 14 Tidal Project Signals New Shift in Clean Energy: Water Power .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } One of the biggest challenges… Continue reading
Sep 12 #VOYAGER I'm in #interstellar space, but I haven't left the solar system. The regions overlap. This explains: http://t.co/uPCRu43rX4— NASA Voyager (@NASAVoyager) September 12, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 12 Listen to sounds of interstellar space from #VOYAGER Hear the sound of #interstellar space. It told us @NASAVoyager had crossed into the new frontier http://t.co/JMCli7Hme2— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) September 12, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 12 Voyager 1 Has Entered Interstellar Space .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Watch NASA's announcement on the… Continue reading