A find of dioxin at the bottom of the Saginaw River could be the highest level of such contamination ever discovered in the nation's rivers and lakes, according to a federal scientist involved in cleanup efforts downstream from a Dow Chemical Co. plant.
Although T-Mobile has begun selling unlocked (albeit expensive) iPhones in response to the court ruling and injunction filed against it by Vodafone, it's always said it would appeal the court ruling. It had two weeks to appeal, but it's not waiting that long; a German court will hear arguments on Thursday.
Some scientists have proposed compressing carbon dioxide and sticking it in underground caves as a way to cut down on greenhouse gases. Joe David Jones wants to make baking soda out of it.
Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, a United Nations report says on Tuesday.
This'll teach Al to post more often, I guess (his last blog post at the time of this writing was late 2006). As Al Gore was meeting with President Bush yesterday, in the tradition of American Nobel Prize winners getting a photo-op with the Prez, it was revealed that the blog on Gore's site, ClimateCrisis.net, has been hacked.
New genetic evidence, however, backs up a chilly northwestern arrival to North America from Siberia about 12,000 years ago, via a temporary land bridge spanning the Bering Strait. The findings further challenge an alternative idea that humans sprinkled in to both North and South America on open sea voyages 30,000 years in the past.
On Monday, doctors reported the results of a study which confirmed what those of us non-smokers who cough around smokers already know: second-hand smoke damages lungs.
Nearly a decade ago, computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a project with an astonishingly lofty goal: digitize the published works of humankind and make them freely available online. The architects of the Universal Library project said Tuesday they have surpassed their latest target, having scanned more than 1.5 million books - many of them in Chinese - and are continuing to scan thousands more daily.
Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours.
In what can only be described as ironic, a Nigerian firm has sued the One Laptop Per Child Foundation over patent infringement (in case you don't "get it", check out this link).
