Who needs NASA? Spending less than it costs to take an airplane ride, a handful of industrious Spanish students sent a balloon100,000 feet into space, tracking it by radio signal via Google Earth. From 20 miles above the Earth’s surface, their handmade spacecraft took compelling photographs of the planet from above which they recovered when [...]
n the last half-century, Detroit lost more than half its population. Those leaving the city were mostly white people who fled to the suburbs. As a result, the tax base was destroyed and the black population that remains has had to govern a 139-square-mile city with limited resources. Abandoned Detroit Schools
Holi, also called the Festival of Colors , is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India. The main day, Holi, also known as Dhulheti, is celebrated by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Festival of colors
If carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere are allowed to rise beyond what they are today, certain effects to the Earth’s climate will be “locked in” and irreversible for at least a thousand years, a new study finds. “Our study convinced us that current choices regarding carbon dioxide emissions will have legacies that will irreversibly [...]
First there was ethanol. Then there was butanol. Now there’s an alcohol biofuel poised to put both to shame. Using new tricks of the trade, scientists at UCLA have synthesized an alcohol molecule that has as many carbon atoms as a molecule of gasoline. It releases as much energy per gallon and can be dropped [...]
In an energy hungry world, oil has allowed us to achieve unbelievable feats. An inconceivable amount of resources have been poured into an infrastructure that allows us to travel to every corner of the globe. As the fuel for this way of life dwindles, the future of transportation has yet to be written. We are [...]
The view looks great–for now. When the days are short and cold, one’s thoughts often turn to warm memories of an idyllic summer vacation–or to making plans for the next one. A “blue cruise” on Turkey’s Aegean or Mediterranean coast is about as idyllic as you can get, traversing gorgeous coastline on a gület (wooden [...]
