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EU Set to Stockpile Rare Earth Elements (REEs).13 Sep, 2011 03:23 pm In order to address the shortfall in REEs for vital renewable energy projects caused by China's restriction of them onto the world markets for its own...Rare Earth Elements and Thorium Power.22 Mar, 2011 04:08 pm Thorium is present in the ores of rare earth elements rendering the processing-waste radioactive. Rather than burying it underground in concrete thorium...Endangered Elements: Threat to Green Energy.8 Feb, 2011 11:00 am Demand for rare earth elements (REEs) is projected to exceed current supply, 97% of which comes from China. Since neodymium and dysprosium are needed for...Google, Jane Goodall, forests and the cloud28 Dec, 2009 10:59 am Not long ago, the only people who could access and analyze satellite images of the earth were government officials, the military,...2010 Cleantech Predictions10 Dec, 2009 01:58 pm My good friends over at Cleantech Group put out their 10 for 2010 cleantech predictions after Thanskgiving, and after our usual "webside" chats on the...Sceptic Ian Plimer on global warming: "my theories are more evocative and sensual"8 Dec, 2009 10:57 am Professor Ian Plimer is one of the most influential global warming sceptics. A university academic in Australia, his trenchant views on climate change...Nanosilver2 Dec, 2009 08:15 am I was astonished when recently, during a discussion about hazards of mineral nanoparticles, a learned colleague of mine took a bottle of colloid silver...Smart Grid: On its way?slowly29 Oct, 2009 11:11 am Yesterday, President Obama travelled to Arcadia, Florida, home to one of the nation?s biggest solar power plants, to announce 100 grants providing a total...Nanoparticles come at the top of occupational chemical risks22 Apr, 2009 09:10 pm It is estimated that each year there are 74,000 work-related deaths linked to hazardous substances encountered in the workplace...Nanotechnology's True Potential14 Nov, 2008 11:14 am It is disappointing to still find articles like this one in the UK Independent that are short-sighted and actually misleading about nanotechnology:At both poles: ?Warming is directly attributed to human activities?30 Oct, 2008 07:04 pm Alexey Karpechko works at the University of East Anglia, and is co-author of a study published in this week?s issue of Nature Geoscience that shows that...Unexpected perspectives30 Jul, 2008 09:46 pm The EPOXI mission of NASA?s Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures of Earth late in May 2008 from 31 million miles away, with the goal of examining Earth...More "Anti-Science" McCarthyism7 Jul, 2008 09:14 am Good grief, there they go again. If you disagree with the progressive political view, er, I mean, the "scientific consensus,...20 Years After, James Hansen addresses the Congress25 Jun, 2008 04:47 pm Climatologist James Hansen testimony in front of a parliamentary committee of the US Congress 20 years after his first speech.Climate Change - Has It Been Cancelled?29 Apr, 2008 10:24 am Professor Bob Carter from James Cook University in Queensland, talks to Nzone Tonight's Allan Lee about how ordinary people can try and find out the truth...Digging Diesel9 Apr, 2008 02:01 pm Coal may appear as a vast and alternative carbon-resource in the face of escalating conventional crude oil prices, but implementing the technology to make...Rows of atoms: watching missing atoms with electrons25 Feb, 2008 12:50 pm While electron microscopes are available for more than 70 years, they have been recently significantly improved. The use of aberration correctors improved...Action on Surfaces: Moving Molecules and Nano Particles on Surfaces28 Dec, 2007 02:13 pm To build devices at molecular scale, we need to control the position, orientation and movement of individual molecules on surfaces...Bali Conference: Feinstein on Final Negotiations17 Dec, 2007 11:05 am US Green Party member Mike Feinstein reports on the controverisal breakdown of negotations on the final morning of the United Nations Framework Convention...LHC: The Six Billion Dollar Questions6 Dec, 2007 09:48 am Scitizen talks to Dr. Monica Dunford, a US physicist working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment ATLAS with the University of Chicago.Nano particles, medicine and heat conduction23 Oct, 2007 11:10 am Metal nano particles have a particularly large optical cross-section that can be used in high resolution imaging and treating cancer. Heat transport,...Cartilage Engineered Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells18 Sep, 2007 12:13 pm Rice University researchers have engineered musculoskeletal cartilages with human embryonic stem cells, with the hope of eventually using the neotissue...Sea Change for Sailors as Arctic Ice Melts14 Sep, 2007 12:40 pm For centuries, the Northwest Passage was almost impassable. Now, as climate change is melting the Arctic ice, more sailors like Richard Swanson are being...Swiss Geothermal Energy Project Causes earthquakes.12 Sep, 2007 12:16 pm The Swiss Deep Heat Mining Project, located near Basel and which involves injecting water under pressure in quantity into three mile deep boreholes,...Silicon Nanoparticles Enhance Performance of Solar Cells4 Sep, 2007 02:15 pm Semiconductor fluorescent nanomaterial may find applications in photovoltaic (PV) solar cell technology through the development of cells based entirely...Assembling Nanoparticles on Liquid Interfaces Leads to Fascinating New Materials30 Aug, 2007 02:46 pm Stefan A. F. Bon discusses how you can use liquid-liquid interfaces as a tool to assemble nanoparticles into larger structures...Targeting and Detecting Cancer Cells Using Nanoparticles23 Jul, 2007 02:26 pm Current cancer therapy always experiences non-specific killing of healthy cells, thus the therapeutic efficiency is extremely low...Gold Nanoglue19 Jul, 2007 10:59 am At the nanoscale - the order of billionths of a meter, materials exhibit unique optical, electronic, and magnetic properties not seen at the bulk scale...A One-Two Punch Against Multidrug Resistant Cancer13 Jul, 2007 03:10 pm The development of multidrug resistance represents the single most important reason for therapeutic failure in the clinical management of cancer,...Bio Art19 Jun, 2007 02:28 pm Shawn Bailey and Jennifer Willet are Canada's leading practitioners of "Bio Art," an emerging form that uses the tools of biology to create works of art...Will We See A New Record Low Arctic Sea Ice Extent in 2007?14 May, 2007 12:45 pm The decrease in Arctic summer ice cover, particularly evident in the western Arctic, is a well-documented and striking example of changing Arctic conditions...Smart Nano Composite Inhibits Tooth Decay15 May, 2007 12:36 pm When tooth decay recurs after the initial restoration, it is termed secondary (or ?recurrent?) decay. It occurs mostly at where the filling material binds...Architectures of Flexible Control: Incongruence and Change Detection24 Apr, 2007 01:11 pm Among nature's most impressive feats of engineering is the remarkably flexible and self-optimizing quality of human cognition...Testing Adult Stem Cells and Potential Hope for Heart Disease Victims4 Apr, 2007 02:28 pm Dr. Amish Raval and his team at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin recently announced that it is one of the first medical...Strange Stirrings in the Arctic Drive Ecosystem Changes Far Downstream5 Mar, 2007 11:14 am Changes in Arctic climate during the late 1980s pumped large amounts of low-salinity water into the shelf ecosystems of the NW Atlantic...Carbon Dioxide Levels Controlled By Degassing and Chemical Weathering Over Time26 Dec, 2006 05:08 pm Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas and its concentration in our atmosphere is naturally controlled over geologically long (millions of years) timescales...?It?s just the excitement of the quest to not only find a planet that would be truly attractive and habitable, but one that has life?26 Jul, 2006 04:07 pm Webster Cash recently reported a new method to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a space Telescope associated with a special shape occulter...Stem-cell-based therapies for heart diseases: ?We?re several years away from clinical trials, but the field is moving very fast?25 Jul, 2006 04:27 pm Deepak Srivastava reviews for Scitizen the potential of stem-cell-based therapies for heart disease.Automotive Aluminium?s Strength Unravelled at Atomic Level5 May, 2006 12:10 pm AlMgSi alloys are massively produced materials for modern industries, especially for fuel-efficient transportation vehicles. However,...Stem Cells - ethical debates and historical remarks9 Apr, 2006 03:11 pm Ethical concerns about stem cell research are deeply rooted in the past. Understanding the historical content of these concerns may help to foster an open...Moderation Policy: Who Select the Articles?21 Jan, 2006 10:55 am The goal is to let the scientific community drive and moderate the discussions by itself in a peer review like system.Who is Behind Scitizen?21 Jan, 2006 10:39 am Scitizen is edited by Take Part Media, a Paris-based media company. |