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- The Earth Has a Pulse: 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Geological Activity Discovered Sun, 27 Jun 21, 7:00amThey found that these global geologic events are generally clustered at 10 different timepoints over the 260 million years, grouped in peaks or pulses of roughly 27.5 million years apart. The most recent cluster of geological...
- Scientists Build ‘Designer’ Brewer’s Yeast Chromosome From Scratch Mon, 31 Mar 14, 11:00pmHumans are already capable of splicing specific genes from one organism into another to create glowing plants to shelf-stable tomatoes. Now, a group of researchers led by Jef Boeke from New York University have taken the...
- NYU Researchers Create a Super Light, Flying Jellyfish Drone that Flaps into the Air Fri, 17 Jan 14, 7:30amResearchers at New York University’s Applied Math Lab unveiled a new drone inspired by nature that mimics the movement of a jellyfish. While it might sound like something destined for an aquatic life, this jellyfish drone...
- NYU Researchers Create a Superlight, Flying Jellyfish Drone that Flaps into the Air Fri, 17 Jan 14, 7:30amResearchers at New York University’s Applied Math Lab unveiled a new drone inspired by nature that mimics the movement of a jellyfish. While it might sound like something destined for an aquatic life, this jellyfish drone...
- Some corals do well in warmer waters – researchers ask how Wed, 6 Feb 13, 11:59pmFrom the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) How do corals survive in the hottest reefs on the planet? Coral reefs are predicted to decline under the pressure of global warming...
- Note to Scientific American’s Bora Zivkovic: “If you want to practice censorship, at least learn to spell the name of this blog correctly” Mon, 14 Jan 13, 7:28amI found this humorous. h/t to Andrew Revkin. Over at Scientific American, Bora Zivkovic writes about Why the NYTimes “Green Blog” Is Now Essential Andrew Revkin of the NYT found the story worth noting, and included...
- Berlin’s KulturBraueri is a Cultural Center Transformed from a 19th Century Brewery Fri, 31 Aug 12, 6:52amRead the rest of Berlin’s KulturBraueri is a Cultural Center Transformed from a 19th Century Brewery Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 19th Century Brewery, adaptive reuse, berlin, cultural...
- Weak solar convection – approximately 100 times slower than scientists had previously projected Mon, 9 Jul 12, 5:01pmFrom New York University: Researchers create ‘MRI’ of the sun’s interior motions A team of scientists has created an “MRI” of the Sun’s interior plasma motions, shedding light on how...
- Marko Manriquez’s Burritob0t is a 3D Burrito Printer That Explores Our Fascination With Fast Food Fri, 22 Jun 12, 2:00amMarko Manriquez has designed the Burritob0t, an incredible 3D printer that can whip up an edible burrito in just a few minutes! The recent New York University graduate created the contraption as his thesis for NYU’s Interactive...
- Students at NYU Launch “Sloth,” a Campus Thrift Store to Slow Consumption Mon, 26 Mar 12, 3:10amIf you love scouring thrift stores as much as we do, you’ll find Sloth and the ideas driving it genius. Inspired by their studies, two students at New York University are launching a secondhand store in Washington...
- NYU’s New $125 Million Power Plant is 90% Efficient, Cuts CO2 Output by 23% Tue, 25 Jan 11, 2:58amNew York University (NYU) just announced that their brand new super efficient CoGeneration power output. Read the rest of NYU’s New $125 Million Power Plant is 90% Efficient, Cuts CO2 Output by 23%http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed...