Carbon dioxide goes into more products than we think. Sodas contain the pressurized gas, quick inflatable life jackets on planes contain CO2, it is used as a pesticide, dry cleaners use CO2 as an alternative to more toxic chemicals, CO2 is commonly used in the oil industry to force the oil to the surface and [...]

Believe it or not, with hundreds upon hundreds of entries – most of them lengthy diatribes filled with quantitative factoids – we have never posted a press release. Well everything comes in good time, and this is an interesting press release. Heat transfer and heat storage fluid indeed! This is the missing [...]

STUDIES SHOW: HOW RESEARCHERS CAN MANIPULATE STATISTICS AND HOW THE MEDIA GOBBLES IT UP UNCRITICALLY

The magnificant Great Blue Heron
Could measured use of DDT still have saved
the Heron, but also millions of human lives?

Editor’s Note: Any issue where science and public policy collides can fall prey to some combination of political opportunism and scientific corruption. [...]

“ONE MOUTH, TWO HANDS,” INDIA’S POPULATION PARADOX

What future will this young Indian inherit?

Editor’s Note: Current demographic trends suggest India will soon become the world’s most populous nation, given India currently has 1.1 billion people and an annual population increase of 1.4%, whereas the current population leader, China, currently has a population of 1.3 billion people [...]

A wheel-motor series hybrid is indeed coming up from Volvo, but don’t hold your breath. Apparently something very big could be in the wings, some sort of next generation hybrid or e-flex technology, making the announcement of the “Recharge” concept car – a wheel-motor series hybrid – not the biggest story Volvo intends to [...]