National Academy of Sciences

Welcome to the 'National Academy of Sciences' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'National Academy of Sciences'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “National Academy of Sciences”

• Heme channel found

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  In some ways a cell in your body or an organelle in that cell is like an ancient walled town. Life inside either depends critically on the intelligence of the gatekeepers. If too many barbarians sneak into town, the town may be put to the torch. And if the cellular gatekeepers cant control the flow of ions and ...
  2 days ago

• UGA study: Headwater stream nutrient enrichment disrupts food web

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Athens, Ga. -- Human activity is increasing the supply of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, to stream systems all over the world. The conventional wisdom -- bolstered by earlier research -- has held that these additional nutrients cause an increase in production all along the food chain, from the tiniest ...
  2 days ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  3 days ago

• LORD CHRISTOPHER WALTER MONCKTON, 3RD VISCOUNT MONCKTON OF BRENCHLEY: ANTI-AGW ACTIVIST, CLIMATEGATE ENTHUSIAST AND WRONG

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 125
  Christopher Walter Monckton, is an anti-Anthropogenic Global Warming activist. He doesnt believe that humans have increased the global temperature by burning carbon or perhaps otherwise increasing greenhouse gases or that if they have, it isnt necessarily a bad thing. He has called for reforestation, so perhaps that ...
  3 days ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  3 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  3 days ago

• Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Our cells are more like us than we may think. Theyre sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether and where to move. ...
  3 days ago

• Bacteria wouldnt opt for a swine flu shot

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Bacteria inhabited our planet for more than 4 billion years before humans showed up, and theyll probably outlive us by as many eons more. That suggests they may have something to teach us. Link:  ...
  4 days ago

• Heart cells on lab chip display nanosense that guides behavior

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle. ...
  4 days ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  5 days ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  5 days ago

• A Giant Virus Discovery Trumps SciFi

  
  Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff) — Authority: 151
  Giant viruses aren’t the result of nineteen-fifties Atomic Mutation (now playing in our air-conditioned theater!) but a real infectious agent so unexpected they were only discovered recently. A giant virus was like a tiny elephant – something someone would not only not expect, but actively miss every time they ...
  5 days ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
  5 days ago

• Black carbon deposits on Himalayan ice threaten Earths Third Pole

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  WASHINGTON -- Black soot deposited on Tibetan glaciers has contributed significantly to the retreat of the worlds largest non-polar ice masses, according to new research by scientists from NASA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Soot absorbs incoming solar radiation and can speed glacial melting when deposited on ...
  5 days ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
  5 days ago

• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
  6 days ago

• How Cues and Context Help Memory

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 578
  A new study sheds light on why we sometimes have difficulty recalling a name or an event if the setting is unfamiliar. A team of researchers from the University of Toronto discovered the hippocampus, a brain region in the temporal lobe, is only involved when cues enable us to recall these rich memories. “We ...
  6 days ago

• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  6 days ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  1 week ago

• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
  1 week ago

Comments about National Academy of Sciences