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Posts for February 2010


The Future of Food


Posted by Sarah Everest on Friday, February 26, 2010




As the earth warms, causing changes to traditional weather patterns, the pressure is mounting to find agricultural production methods that will adapt to climate change.

At stake is human health. Increasing temperatures alter patterns of crop disease and increase flooding through heavy rainfall - ...

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Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car


Posted by Graham Lanktree on Wednesday, February 24, 2010


If electric cars have any future in the U.S., San Francisco may be the city where they arrive first.

The city's building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from SF City Hall, some drivers are already plugging converted hybrids into ...

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Webcam Catches B.C.'s Elusive Spirit Bear Hibernating


Posted by Graham Lanktree on Friday, February 19, 2010




Kermode Bear chasers from Bob Babinski on Vimeo.

Everyone is going wild for a new webcam placed near the den of one of the rarest bears on earth - B.C.'s Spirit Bear.

We're considering whether to feature the bear on the cover of our upcoming Biodiversity issue this spring. What do you think? Without disturbing it, should we try to capture our ...




Giant Oarfish Captured on Film


Posted by Graham Lanktree on Wednesday, February 17, 2010




Extraordinary footage of an elusive giant oarfish has been captured by marine scientists in the Gulf of Mexico.




New Teleportation Technique Helps Physicists Understand the Universe


Posted by Mathew Klie-Cribb on Wednesday, February 17, 2010




Spoiler: this post is going to blow your mind.

Physicists have discovered real life teleportation. The newest development comes from a paper by Masahiro Hotta of Tohoku University in Japan. He's discovered how to teleport energy using the theory of Quantum Entanglement. Read his full paper here.

Physicists ...

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