Can light-colored rooftops and roads really curb carbon emissions and combat global climate change?
The idea has been around for years, but now, a new study by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that is the first to use a global model to study the question has found that implementing cool roofs and cool pavements in cities around the world can not only help cities stay cooler, they can also cool the world, with the potential of canceling the heating effect of up to two years of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions.
*Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Hardcover Books*
SEATTLE, Jul 19, 2010 — Millions of people are already reading on Kindles and Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running. It’s also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.com.
Today, Amazon.com announced that Kindle device unit sales accelerated each month in the second quarter–both on a sequential month-over-month basis and on a year-over-year basis.
Services backlog of $129 billion, up $1 billion, adjusting for currency.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced second-quarter 2010 diluted earnings of $2.61 per share compared with diluted earnings of $2.32 per share in the second quarter of 2009, an increase of 13 percent.
It turns out the old saying is right — the nose really does know. And when it comes to sharks, the nostrils are particularly discriminating.
Combined with the ability to detect underwater vibrations, sharks are able to zero in on the location of their prey by smelling in stereo, according to a new study by researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
You’re standing at the edge of watery abyss. What comes to your mind first? The beauty? The amount of electricity? How unimportant you are? How much money you could make with a visitor center?
How you answer says a lot about how you think, and as pollsters are beginning to wonder, how you might feel about science.
WASHINGTON — Glaciers that detach from the seafloor and begin floating create larger icebergs than glaciers that stay on the sea floor, researchers have found. Floating glaciers also produce icebergs more erratically.
These new observations may help researchers better understand and predict iceberg production from glaciers and ice sheets, improving estimates of sea-level rise due to climate change.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The first close-up picture of a nascent super massive star and its surroundings has shown that the highest mass stars in the universe form just like their smaller counterparts. They are born from swirling disks of gas and dust, rather than from violent stellar collisions.
“How these high mass stars form has been a debate for 20 years,” said Stefan Kraus, a research fellow in the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy who is first author of a paper on the findings published July 15 in Nature.
ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM announced, on July 16, that industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has ranked it the worldwide leader in the middleware software market.
According to IDC, IBM was the leading worldwide application deployment software vendor with 31.9 percent market share based on revenue, nearly double that of its closest competitor.
