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National Science Foundation
Monday, February 06, 2012
New measurements of the NSF-funded Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz., show that sky brightness has remained remarkably constant over the past 20 years, despite the area's rapid population growth.
Tags: lighting
National Science Foundation
Monday, January 23, 2012
Researchers have re-engineered an anaerobic bacterium known as clostridia to prevent spore formation, a change that improves the bacteria's productivity in making biofuels.
National Science Foundation
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Researchers at Michigan Technical University (MTU) have created a combustion vessel to study engine technologies operating on an expanding set of alternative fuels with reduced emissions and increased efficiency.
Tags: Michigan Technical University
National Science Foundation
Monday, June 13, 2011
Research on the impact of climate change on mosquitoes has revealed that their populations will increase, as well as experience changes in geographic location and season.
Tags: nsf, mosquito, university of arizona
National Science Foundation
Monday, June 27, 2011
Renewable energy sources that power residences and small businesses are usually integrated into small networks known as microgrids.
Tags: Colorado, nsf, microgrid, power grid
National Science Foundation
Monday, August 01, 2011
George Mason University researchers are investigating the resilience of Arctic peoples to changes in their local environments due to global climate change.
Tags: climate, Arctic, George Mason, George Mason University, Viliui Sakha, Russia, Siberia
National Science Foundation
Monday, July 11, 2011
It is not often that a scientist collaborates with a writer and philosopher, let alone one that lived in a previous century.
Tags: climate change, plants, climate, massachusetts, Richard Primack, Boston University, Henry David Thoreau, evolution, botany, University of Michigan
National Science Foundation
Monday, July 18, 2011
While investigating the effects of climate change on nitrogen cycling in temperate coastal systems, Rhode Island researchers made the first scientific link between warming and fundamental changes in nutrient cycles.
Tags: rhode island, cycling, warming, nitrogen, ecology, biology, nitrogen fixing, sediments, wetlands, Louisiana
National Science Foundation
Monday, August 08, 2011
Recently, multiple NSF-funded researchers have documented genetic changes resulting from climate change. These studies suggest that extreme variation in temperature and rainfall are causing genetic shifts in organisms with short life spans.
Tags: california, washington, plants, warming, temperature, arthur, weis, UC-Irvine, rainfall, genes
National Science Foundation
Monday, October 10, 2011
Keith Gubbins of North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in collaboration with industrial partners, has discovered carbon materials that adsorb (hold on their surface) large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2).Their experiments ha