The Sciences
Slide Show: Rabbits at Risk
What better time than Easter to familiarize yourself with rabbits in danger of extinction
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Environment
How Fast Can Carbon Capture and Storage Fix Climate Change?
Carbon capture and storage is not being widely built today; the primary problem--it is expensive
Chemistry
Enhanced Oil Recovery: How to Make Money from Carbon Capture and Storage Today
The U.S. oil business has been using carbon dioxide to pump extra oil out of reservoirs for 36 years--and permanently storing some CO2 in the process
Environment
Storing the Carbon in Fossil Fuels Where It Came from: Deep Underground
Burying greenhouse gas may be the only way to avoid a climate change catastrophe
Environment
Slide Show: 10 Important Atmospheric Science Experiments
From air, space, and deep in a forest, scientists air out climate models with lab and field work
Environment
Slide Show: What Does Carbon Capture and Storage Look Like?
From the North Sea to Texas, this slide show looks at existing technology to take the carbon dioxide out of coal burning and other fossil fuel use
Environment
Can Carbon Capture and Storage Save Coal?
Capturing carbon dioxide may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe from burning fossil fuels
Health
Churn Baby, Churn: Using Virtual Stomachs to Regurgitate the Mysteries of Digestion
What can computational fluid dynamics teach us about the biggest gap in the science of nutrition?
Environment
Green Diamonds: Baseball Stadiums Take a Swing at Energy Efficiency
Many MLB arenas now incorporate cutting-edge ecofriendly features
The Sciences
Field Equations: The Physics of Baseball
A Q&A with physicist Alan Nathan
The Sciences
Making Mushrooms Environmentally Friendly
Can science keep mushroom farmers from stinking up the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
Technology
Therapists Use Virtual Worlds to Address Real Problems
An emerging technique to help troubled teens combines role-play in computer-generated environments with talk therapy
Environment
Plan B for Energy: 8 Revolutionary Energy Sources
If efficiency improvements and incremental advances in today's technologies fail to halt global warming, could revolutionary new carbon-free energy sources save the day? Don't count on it—but don't count it out, either...
The Sciences
Fiddling with Flavors: Making Healthy Bread Taste Better
Does the secret of flavor lie in the Maillard reaction?
Environment
What Is Greenwashing?
Although a corporation, product or alternative energy source seems ecofriendly, it is always best to look behind the "green" facade to get the facts
