Kito's concerned. Have government regulators turned their backs on people who like acid rain and a damaged ozone layer?
Critics of government say it can't do anything right, and that government regulation kills the economy. Skeptics of climate change say mankind can't impact nature in a significant way. Those viewpoints are tested when looking at the role government regulation has played in reducing acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer.

Governments around the world enacted the Montreal Protocol in 1989, agreeing to concrete actions aimed at fixing the ...

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Hello and welcome to my first post as a Talking Science contributor! I’m excited to join this roster of fine bloggers. To help introduce myself, I would like to share my experience as a volunteer scientist on a research cruise with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This is to be the first of a multiple-post series about NOAA’s survey cruises, and the research that these surveys support. I’ve also included a few photos from the trip to help tell my story – enjoy!
Until April 2009, most of my ...

Next week will be a big week for Langstroth fans.
First, I want to remind folks to join me as I travel down to Philadelphia on Thursday, January 21 for the Philly Kick Off. I hope to see a lot of you there to support this first event of a year-long celebration of the 200th birthday of the Father of American Beekeeping. I'd love to talk with you, face to face, before or after the event.
You can buy raffle tickets to win a Hive Kit donated by Brushy Mountain Bee Farm ...

I'm fairly confident we don't yet really know what happened to Google.
Based on my experience reporting on China, corporate scams here, and Ghostnet, I'm going with the Wired explanation. It quotes an iDefense spokeswoman saying it’s her understanding that Google’s source code was targeted in the hack attack. I also think it's worth considering whether this was an inside job done at the behest of China's security apparatus, and if so, what implications this would have for other science and technology firms, and scientists ...

If you can't stand the heat, convert it to power.
In a conventional power plant, heat is needed to spin the turbines that ultimately produce electricity. That heat is usually supplied by burning a fossil fuel such as coal. Unfortunately, much of the primary fuel's potential energy production is wasted when roughly two-thirds of the heat it provides is lost as excess heat.

Combined heat and power (CHP)—also known as cogeneration—harnesses that heat and uses it either directly as a heat source or to spin a second turbine, creating more electricity.

Facilities that ...

This blog, Like Mother, Like Doctor, was created in response to questions asked by Talking Science’s 2009 summer intern, Rosie Washington. Her project: to search for answers to her dreams. She contacted me after reading my blog and with help from executive producer, Ann Marie Cunningham, and the essential input of my daughter Dana Greenfield, this blog was born!
So while Dana is off with younger sister Becca exploring the beauty of Big Sur, CA, during their winter break, I will tackle the first of the many great questions ...

Hello, I’m Maddy. Welcome to my blog! I’m going to be writing about psychology, and any other scientific topic that interests me!

“What is love?” asked the singer Haddaway in 1993, as well as plenty of people before and since then. Recently I heard Dr. Helen Fisher, Rutgers University anthropologist and the brains behind dating site chemistry.com, speak at the New York Academy of Sciences. She shed some light on the complex issue of why we humans fall in love with one person rather than another. (Dr. Fisher’s latest book is ...

"On Monday, the Observer and The News & Observer will jointly launch a weekly, two-page package of science and technology news from the Carolinas and beyond called "SciTech."
--- Rick Thames, Editor
One can spend decades toiling in the fields of Public Radio, wondering if anyone is listening.
And then you get a bolt out of the blue, with a newspaper column like this one.
To Rick Thames, editor of the "Charlotte Observer," great job for not taking "no" ...

Greetings, Dear Readers.
I write to you from the tight confine that is the window seat of a Bolt Bus. My legs, holding in place a duffel bag filled with clothes, are practically stuck for the next four hours, a torture barely offset by the fact that Bolt offers Wi-Fi. As the sky slowly begins to grow darker and the driver steers the bus south down the highway, I can feel my much-needed winter break slowly draw to a close and the pressure and anticipation of the start of a new ...