BIG Problems – Page 81

Electric Car Breaks 500 Mile Barrier
By the Editor on July 17, 2012
The arguments against an electric car are growing fewer. A vehicle in development by ECOmove – a consortium of...
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Thieving Rodents Are Rainforest Saviors
By the Editor on July 17, 2012
The thieving habits of rodents have emerged as an unlikely salvation of tropical forests, research suggests. Massive mammals known...
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Sophisticated Mayan Water Management System Revealed
By the Editor on July 17, 2012
Scientists have identified the largest ancient Mayan dam, constructed from stone and holding back around 20 million gallons of...
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Whales Are Coping With Humans’ Noise
By the Editor on July 17, 2012
For years, scientists have known that man-made underwater noise from an array of sources can deafen or harm whales...
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The Ecology of Disease
By the Editor on July 16, 2012
If we fail to understand and take care of the natural world, it can come back to haunt us...
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From Higgs to Humanity: Discoveries for the Common Good
By the Editor on July 16, 2012
Big scientific discoveries, such as the God particle, can have great Earthly potential that must be shared by the...
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The Salvation of Extraterrestrials
By the Editor on July 16, 2012
Some years ago a group of scientists produced an exercise in probability: the Drake equation. It looks at the...
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Americans’ Confidence in the Church at All-Time Low
By the Editor on July 16, 2012
Americans’ confidence in organized religion is at its lowest in more than three decades, with just 44% having a...
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Biased Observers of Nature
By the Editor on July 16, 2012
Scientists are not robots recording events using mechanically objective methods. Like all human beings, scientists have biases. Indeed, the...
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UK Research Funders Announce Liberated Open Access Policy
By the Editor on July 16, 2012
From April 2013, science papers must be made free to access within six months of publication if they come...
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