? Carnegie Airborne Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science Between Google and NASA, we would think mapping technology is already darn near perfect. But thanks to the work of researchers and scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science, we know mapping technology is just getting going.
Posts Tagged ‘science’
Breakthrough Technology Maps Rainforests In 3D, Including Carbon Storage
October 28th, 2011
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Exxon’s Profits Hit $31 Billion So Far This Year, Yet Big Oil Subsidies Flourish
October 27th, 2011
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Steve Snodgrass via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 I’m not sure this can even be considered news anymore, given the regularity with which it happens: ExxonMobil has posted massive earnings. Again. The oil giant claims quarterly earnings of $10.3 billion dollars, bringing the yearly total thus far to $31 billion.
Sun- and Wind-Powered Lifeboat Becomes a Recording Studio
October 23rd, 2011
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Thomas Dolby/via When I mention Thomas Dolby , most of my friends draw a blank, until I mention his 1982 song, She Blinded Me With Science. Dolby has been busy since as the TED conference’s musical director, as a silicon valley tech entrepreneur, and as a dad who recently moved his family to the Eastern coast of England. After 20 years, Dolby has now released a new album A Map of the Floating City . The album was produced in one of the most beautiful recording studios
New Nanotechnolgy Powered By Your Own Breath
October 21st, 2011
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? University of Wisconsin-Madison When it comes to nanotechnology, the seemingly smallest motions can provide reliable and renewable energy. This is what is being discovered at the University of Wisconsin in Madison by Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Xudong Wang, postdoctoral Researcher Chengliang Sun and graduate student Jian Shi, who have created a plastic microbelt that vibrates in low-speed air movement, such as that of human respiration. But it not only vibrates–the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) used in the microbel…
