Saturday, January 29, 2011

Today's Science Agenda


  • Elite Scientific Advisory Panel Says New Technology is Needed to Verify Emissions Cuts

    JASON--The group's latest report explores the feasibility of using ground monitoring stations, aircraft and satellites to measure CO2, as well as methods to estimate emissions by monitoring a country's energy infrastructure
  • Teachers Fail Evolution Education

    Pennsylvania State University--Only a minority of high school teachers are effectively educating students about evolution, with many expressing personal views rather than the assigned curriculum
  • African Farmers Beat Back Drought and Climate Change with Trees

    Burkina Faso--Farmers in the western Sahel have achieved success by growing trees along with crops. Scientists say that the mix--a practice called farmer-managed natural regeneration--brings a range of benefits including increased crop yields
  • Stone Tools Point to Earlier Exit from Africa

    University of Tubingen et al.—Climatic shifts may have enabled early humans to cross what is now the Red Sea into the Arabian peninsula 125,000 years ago—tens of thousands of years earlier than thought and 75,000 years after Homo sapiens came to be

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