The green race to the top

26 Nov, 2009 12:37 pm If climate regulation will burden businesses or increase costs, then why are so many companies strengthening their voluntary response to the climate crisis...

Senate Climate Bill Produces Little But Partisan Heat

5 Nov, 2009 04:19 pm Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California), chairperson of the Energy and Public Works Committee (EPW), plans to proceed with markup of the Kerry-Boxer Clean...

Oil Optimists Grow More Outlandish

24 Sep, 2009 06:07 pm As the troubling realities of future oil supplies begin to penetrate official circles, the oil optimists are making even more outlandish claims.

Nano-capacitors: the root towards the super power battery

20 Aug, 2009 10:50 am Nanostructured devices have the potential to serve as the basis for next-generation energy systems that make use of densely packed interfaces and thin...

World's Most Powerful Laser Unveiled

20 Jun, 2009 12:11 pm The world's most powerful laser was dedicated at the Livermore National Laboratory in California. It's designed to shore up the nation's aging nuclear...

Nanoparticles come at the top of occupational chemical risks

22 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...

Peak Oil... Demand for it, that is

1 Apr, 2009 02:15 pm It is demand for oil that may peak as governments adapt to the problems of global warming, security of supply and an amplitude of market volatility that...

Gap Oil

21 Jan, 2009 04:52 pm It is Gap Oil not Peak Oil that is the problem. Rising demand for oil will exceed the quantity of it that can be withdrawn from the earth,...

?Higher and lower oil prices may affect demand, but the effect will be very limited?

5 Dec, 2008 10:14 pm Ali Hussain, oil consultant and former OPEC officer, answers Scitizen?s questions about the possible effect of OPEC measures on oil demand...

A huge fall off in demand? ?We actually haven?t seen it yet!?

3 Dec, 2008 11:08 pm Andrew Sutton, an oil market expert, gives Scitizen his opinion on what is happening with oil demand. He argues that the market are ?selling the news?...

Blue Man Group on Global Warming

7 Oct, 2008 08:41 pm Short video done by Blue Man Group, about global warming

Words Matter: call it "climate disruption" says John P. Holdren

16 Sep, 2008 10:30 am I first saw John P. Holdren speak at the Chicago Humanities Festival last year. I was very impressed by his savvy, big-picture take on the whole climate...

The Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant

26 May, 2008 09:18 am The remains of the most recent supernova in our Milky Way galaxy, about 150 years ago at most, have been identified from radio and X-ray observations.

Challenges in Making Superstrong Materials Based on Carbon Nanotubes

28 Jan, 2008 10:07 pm Thinking of carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, one might expect superstrong materials. But a closer look at the steep challenges to improve the mechanical...

The Coal Question Revisited

17 Jan, 2008 10:59 am Many people believe the world has enough coal to last hundreds of years. Recent assessments now suggest that coal production could actually start to decline...

A Theorist's Pencil and One Layer of Carbon Atoms, Graphene

26 Nov, 2007 02:45 pm Graphite consists of layers of atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. A single layer of carbon atoms, called graphene has unique electronic properties...

Has Peak Oil Been Reached? No!

5 Nov, 2007 12:51 pm The Energy Watch Group released a report last week, stating that peak oil was reached in 2006. Scitizen sought the professional view of Dr Peter Jackson...

Late Stages of Planetary System Evolution: the Case of V 391 Peg b

12 Oct, 2007 11:15 am Exoplanets are of high interest, not only because questions regarding alien life in the universe have accompanied humanity for a long time,...

?Water is There!?

11 Jul, 2007 07:01 pm Giovanna Tinetti, lead author of a study published today in Nature, reports presence of water in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet.

"The Glacial Period Did Not Happen Until Several Thousand Years After The Toba Super Eruption"

5 Jul, 2007 08:00 pm Michael Petraglia is a University Lecturer in Human Evolution. His study published today in Science reveals that super-volcanic eruptions are perhaps...

Confronting Climate Change: avoiding the unmanageable and managing the avoidable

19 Jun, 2007 02:28 pm Professors Rosina Bierbaum and John Holdren give a short synopsis of a new report by the UN Foundation and Sigma Xi.

?It?s Blurring the Distinction Between Humans and the African Apes.?

31 May, 2007 08:00 pm Upright walking may have begun in the trees. This hypothesis is the result of a study, based on the observation of orangutans,...

Supercapacitors Start a Revolution in Energy Storage Devices

4 Oct, 2006 08:31 am When shopping for power sources to make Palm Pilots, iPods, and other ubiquitous personal electronic devices work, a capacitor is probably the last thing...

The nature of dark energy: the big challenge in the physics new era

30 Mar, 2006 03:36 pm The universe is dominated by a mysterious dark energy acting as a repulsive force on the universe scale, causing its cosmic acceleration...