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Europe's PLATO will hunt for habitable Earth-like planets
Posted in Hardware on 22nd Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
Unlike Kepler, the European astronomers are looking for something very specific and more exciting: Earth-like rocky planets in their Sun-like stars habitable zones.
MIT looks at the world's water needs
Posted in Featured, Science on 27th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
Desalination costs are still high, and not everyone lives near a seacoast, so getting the water where its needed, when its needed, can be prohibitively expensive.
'Massive' reservoir of melt water found under Greenland ice
Posted in Science on 23rd Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
The aquifer, which covers an area the size of Ireland, could yield important clues to sea level rise.
Researchers split water into hydrogen, oxygen using light, nanoparticles
Posted in Science on 18th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
Technology potentially could create a clean, renewable source of energy.
Trillions of tons of fresh water under ocean's continental shelf
Posted in Featured, Science on 8th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller
The discovery comes as United Nations estimates suggest water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of the population of the world over the last century.