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REALscience
http://www.realscience.us
REALscience brings science to life...your life. It takes science news and makes it apply to your world. Appropriate for all ages, REALscience will make you think.
- Added on: Feb 27th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Michael Bradbury
- Listed in: Science Earth Science
- Tags: global warming science news podcast energy space
Recent Posts
Gaga for Zhu Zhu
The world has gone nuts for five robotic hamsters, called Zhu Zhu Pets. While the cute and cuddly creatures race around on a surfboard, skateboard or in a car, the “it” toy of 2009 has some heavy metals that are within safety limits but ...
ClimateGate Ignites Global Warming Firestorm
On November 19, a computer hacker penetrated the internal e-mail system at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit and began posting 13 years worth of internal correspondence and documents online, in an effort to show that a small group...
Pluto’s Icy Underdog Status
Composite image of Pluto, courtesy Eliot Young (SwRI) et al., NASA For three years, Pluto–the ninth planet–has been given the cold shoulder by the astronomy community, which demoted it to dwarf planet in 2006. What is it about Pluto that ...
Deconstructing Carbon Emissions
Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about carbon emissions–the gas released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and a whole host of other human activities. While the catch-all is called “carbo...
Eight-Wheeled Electric Car from Japan
Japan’s Eliica may look like science fiction, but with the engine power in its wheels — all eight of them — a top speed of 230 mph and a range of 200 miles on a single charge, this electric car has potential in the real world. The ...
Tired from Tryptophan
Did you fall into a turkey coma? Well, if you did don’t blame it on the much-maligned tryptophan. It was more likely something else, like all the starch in stuffing or sugars in candied yams that made you need a nap. New research is finding th...
