Panel says US should expand national parks, spend more to preserve them for future generationsSeptember 24th, 2009 Panel says spend more on national parksWASHINGTON — An independent panel says the U.S. should invest more money in its national parks to preserve them for future generations.
New vest to help fire fighters, rescue workers keep coolSeptember 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Inventors have developed a vest that can help fire fighters and emergency workers maintain their cool. The CoolMe Vest significantly reduces heat stress and recovery period for workers in extreme heat conditions.
Young animals better at keeping warm than previously believedAugust 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has found that young muskoxen conserve heat almost as well as adults, a finding that runs contrary to a longstanding assumption among scientists that young animals should be more vulnerable in extreme cold. Biologist Adam Munn from the University of Sydney, Australia, carried out the study.
'Clever' mug keeps tea, wine at ideal temperaturesAugust 21st, 2009 LONDON - Two German scientists have created a high-tech mug, which they claim will keep your mulled wine or coffee at the perfect temperature. To make the revolutionary IBP mug, Klaus Sedlbauer, the head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP), and colleague, Herbert Sinnesbichler, used phase change material (PCM), a wax-like substance used in construction to keep rooms cool in summertime.
Flamingoes stand on one leg to regulate their body temperatureAugust 18th, 2009 LONDON - An exhaustive study by scientists has concluded that flamingoes stand on one leg to regulate their body temperature. According to a report by BBC News, the study was carried out by Matthew Anderson and Sarah Williams, who are comparative psychologists based at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, US.
Changes in net flow of ocean heat correlate with past climate anomaliesAugust 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of physicists at the University of Rochester, US, has found evidence that in the last 50 years, the net flow of heat into and out of the oceans has changed direction three times, which correlate well with past climate anomalies. According to the researchers, these shifts in the balance of heat absorbed from the sun and radiated from the oceans correlate well with past anomalies that have been associated with abrupt shifts in the earth's climate.
Toucan's giant bill, not just for peeling fruit, attracting mates, scientists sayJuly 23rd, 2009 Who can cool his body fast? ToucanWASHINGTON — The toucan's colorful bill gives new meaning to the phrase cool dude. Indeed, that gigantic schnoz turns out to be a radiator the rain forest dweller uses to lose body heat.
Eating more and using less energy made dinos giganticJuly 9th, 2009 SYDNEY - A US scientist has said that some dinosaurs grew larger than today's elephants because they ate more and used less energy. According to a report in ABC Science, the study suggests two factors, energy expenditure and food intake, influence the size of animals.
Now, baby suits that can tell when a child is illJune 18th, 2009 LONDON - What if infants could themselves tell that they have fever? Well, now they can, at least by changing the colour of their suits. A dad has created baby suits, called Babyglows, which can change their colours when the kids wearing them get too hot, providing early warning of illness.
The ultimate "green home" to survive global warmingMay 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - In these times of global warming, buying a "green home" might be the best bet, an example of which is the Cliffs Cottage at Furman University in the US. The cottage was built on campus in 2008 to serve as a model of environmentally responsible design, sustainable building techniques and materials, and energy-saving systems.
How the body differentiates between a scorch and a scratchMay 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - American scientists have shed new light on how the body figures out whether it has been stuck by a pin or burnt by a match. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found that this sensory discrimination begins in the skin at the very earliest stages of neuronal information processing, with different populations of sensory neurons-called nociceptors-responding to different kinds of painful stimuli.
Overheating laptops may soon be historyApril 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Although laptops are getting smaller and easier to use day by day, they still get overheated causing circuits to melt and the hardware to fail. But, such problems may soon be history.
Tapping industrial waste heat could reduce fossil fuel demandsApril 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists has determined that tapping industrial waste heat could reduce fossil fuel demands in the short term and improve efficiency of countless manufacturing processes. The scientists, Lihua Zhang and Tomohiro Akiyama of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, explain that heat waste from industrial processes, such as combustion and electricity generation is sometimes of low energy and diffuse.
Tapping industrial heat could cut fossil fuels useApril 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Tapping waste heat from industries could cut down fossil fuel use and improve efficiency of countless manufacturing processes, says a study. According to Lihua Zhang and Tomohiro Akiyama of Hokkaido University, Japan, heat waste from industrial processes, such as combustion and electricity generation, is sometimes of low energy and diffuse and capturing this low-quality heat for re-use elsewhere on an industrial plant is usually not practical.
Technique measures heat transport in the Earth's crustMarch 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A scientist has developed a technique that provides much more accurate data on heat transport through rocks in the Earth's crust than conventional methods, which brings scientists closer to a better understanding of the planet's interior. The scientist in question is Anne M.
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