…— they must consider the sun path in four seasons and the existing buildings in the neighborhood as the design constraints to optimize solar penetration to the new buildings and…
The day/night cycle of an SUT The solar updraft tower is a new-concept clean energy power plant for generating electricity from the sun. Sunshine falling on a greenhouse collector structure…
…Our goal was to get feedback on ways to make our new browser-based MW more valuable to them. We asked them to evaluate new designs (we invite you to take…
…arose? A new 3-D model of early Earth suggests that the planet underwent significant changes–from very warm to very cold. Past models were one-dimensional–holding constant the amount of cloud cover…
New groundwater and soil moisture drought indicator maps produced by NASA are available on the National Drought Mitigation Center’s website. They currently show unusually low groundwater storage levels in Texas….
…that study, set up their model based on their expectations that global plant productivity would continue to increase, as it had in the 1980s and 1990s. A new study has…
As the 18th century British chemist Sir Humphry Davy put it, “nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.” True for infrared…
…know that the newest layers are on the top, and the oldest layers are on the bottom. But what happens when the bottom layers aren’t the oldest? New research in…
…of Kepler-10. Having this information made it possible to calculate the mass and density of its orbiting planet. Finding new planets is very exciting, but it’s far more exciting to…
…imperative. Many important technologies such as microelectronics and nanophotonics are built upon the science of electrons. These technologies are now spearheading new innovations that will lead to revolutionary changes in…