December 2009
7 posts
Super-Earths found around sun-like stars →
“Four newfound planets orbiting two nearby stars add weight to the promise of detecting habitable worlds within the next few years, researchers said today.” Found on MSNBC via @pulphope.
I Sail the River Electric →
“The chemical process of osmosis has been put to work, generating power for a Norwegian utilities firm. “Sited on the banks of the Oslo fjord in southern Norway,” and using something called the “membrane rig,” New Scientist reports, “it generates electricity using the natural process that keeps plants standing upright and the cells of our own bodies swollen,...
There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Simple’ Organism →
“What may be the most thorough study ever of a single organism has produced a beta code for life’s essential subroutines, and shown that even the simplest creatures are more complex than scientists suspected.” Found on Wired Science.