A bacterium that thrives by feeding on a common pollutant may provide a means to help clean up contaminated soil and ground water
Enmax and Vision Quest Windelectric plan to build Canada’s biggest wind farm in breezy southern Alberta, a CA$100 million project aimed at spinning out enough renewable power to supply more than 32,500 homes
European scientists have carried out the first experiments on antimatter. Researchers in Geneva, Switzerland, have been able to trap and control anti-hydrogen atoms in a chamber at a sufficiently low temperature to begin studying their physics in detail
SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants who are threatening to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects. They have finally yielded to pressure and announced that they will crack-down on cheats rorting statistics
STMicroelectronics plans to announce a breakthrough on Monday in light-emitting silicon that could lead to a new generation of more powerful computing processors and more efficient automobile components as well as potentially higher-speed optical data-transmission system
By the year 2080, Manhattan and Shanghai could be underwater, droughts and floods could become more extreme and hundreds of millions of people will be at risk from disease, starvation and water shortages
Top US science advisers say that anti-terrorism security measures have caused scientific information to disappear from the Internet
A way of keeping slices of living brain tissue alive for weeks has developed by a biotech company. This will allow drug developers to study the effect of chemicals on entire neural networks, not just individual cells
The future of SETI@home director David Anderson has spoken out to calm fears sparked by the project’s chief scientist, Dan Werthimer, that the project is under threat of closing
The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis
The Brazilians use sugar cane alcohol to fuel their modification of a single engine crop duster called the Ipanema
. The company projects a 25% increase in revenue from the new alcohol planes and increased income to convert existing gasoline fuelled Ipanemas to alcohol — via Slashdot
Australia is positioning itself to reap the benefits from the potentially lucrative venture of bio-prospecting
A microbial fuel cell that runs on scraps of food could fuel a battery providing electricity to top up your home’s supply
After nearly five millennia clinging to a wind-swept mountain in eastern California, clips from a bristlecone pine tree believed to be the world’s oldest will spend the next year in a petri dish
Scientists have reported that they have bioengineered a plant capable of absorbing arsenic from soil and sequenced the complete set of genes for a microbe that can remove heavy metals from water. Some scientists even see the day when trees and grasses will be used to mine metals and minerals without disturbing the soil — via Slashdot
Australian computer scientists Alexander Barmouta and Rajkumar Buyya have brought grid computing one step closer to commercialisation, releasing a preliminary prototype of their Grid Bank resource accounting infrastructure
After a year of painstaking scientific research, scientists have revealed what they say is the world’s funniest joke
Congratulations to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, who was awarded the Ig Nobel Award for Interdisciplinary Research, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint — who gets it, when, what colour and how much
SETI@home is planning to transfer it’s operations from Arecibo to another telescope in Australia, where they say lies an increased chance of finding extraterrestrials. The telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia is more powerful, with a wider view of the sky; scientists are betting that this new telescope will also help find signs of shriveling
black holes — via Slashdot
Australian power company Origin Energy said it will buy the entire electricity output from Australia’s largest wind farm Challicum Hills
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