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IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail	Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.
Wired February 25, 2008 Peter Schwartz	Humans Have Been Changing the Climate for Eons. That's Reason for Hope. Our epoch needs a new name. Scientists like Anthropocene to represent the era when people started messing up nature.
Industrial Physicist Dec 2003/Jan 2004 Eric J. Lerner	Briefs Infrared tissue scans... Better electronic paper... Rapid manufacturing... Flipping storage fields
Industrial Physicist Eric Lerner	Briefs Penetrating the fog... Plasma self-organization... Stronger than spider silk... Slow light... etc.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
Geotimes March 2006	Geomedia Geoscience Arts: Antarctica Through the Eyes of Writers and Artists... Television: Brewing Intelligent Design... Books: Trapped in the Ice... Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate...
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Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics.
Popular Mechanics December 1, 2009 Peter Kelemen	What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't.
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 John Carey	Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world.
Geotimes June 2006 Michael Glantz	Global Warming: Whose Problem is it Anyway? Global warming is not a hoax. It actually happens naturally. Industrialization processes in rich countries and now in developing ones are abetting the naturally occurring greenhouse effect.
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas	Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc.
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick	Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Solar Cell Doubles as Battery Scientists have designed a single, compact device that can both convert solar energy to electricity and store the electricity.
Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard	Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change.
Chemistry World December 10, 2007 Killugudi Jayaraman	Scientists Trap Light in Nano-Soup Physicists in India, have demonstrated how to trap and retrieve light using a soup of micro- and nano-sized magnetic spheres.
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Heat Imbalance Portends Problems Results from a new assessment show that Earth is absorbing more energy than it releases into space, with implications for climate change that researchers say point to future warming with consequences for melting ice sheets and sea-level rise.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004	Tiny Rotors Spin Into Place Researchers from Northwestern University, ProChimia Poland in Poland, and Harvard University have devised a way to automatically configure tiny, rotor-based machines.
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley	Ice transforms chipmaking Spraying water vapor onto cold silicon could be a simple way to make computer chips. The key is etching nanoscale lines into the resulting ice to make microscopic computer circuits. The process is environmentally friendly to boot.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Purdue researchers develop material for better optics, communications "Negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications could lead to better communications and imaging technologies.
Popular Mechanics May 1, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Ice Sculptures for Science: Chain Saws, Pickaxes, Methane Hydrates and Climate Change One of the greatest unknowns regarding the future pace of climate change involves a source of greenhouse gases we can't even see, let alone control.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Geotimes December 2006 Megan Sever	Methane Budget to Become Off-Balance Methane packs a big punch in the atmosphere. A team of climate scientists now says that it has better determined the primary controls over the methane budget over the past two decades, and the team offers a warning for the future: methane emissions will likely rise.
Industrial Physicist Oct/Nov 2004 Jesse H. Ausubel	Big Green Energy Machines Zero-emission power plants and Continental SuperGrids can multiply the power of the energy system 5-10 times while shrinking it in a revolutionary way.
Reason November 2008	Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?...
Geotimes June 2007 Fred Schwab	Plunging into the Debate on Climate Change Debate continues about whether the warming effects of greenhouse gases are overshadowed by natural events.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever	A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater.
Reason April 2004 Ronald Bailey	Why Warming? The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims to have found "new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.
Chemistry World February 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Efficient solar cells from silicon wires US researchers have designed a new silicon-based solar cell which uses 100 times less silicon than conventional photovoltaic devices.
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma	Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it.
Chemistry World February 2010	Solar surge The sun is the only non-polluting energy source available to humankind on a huge scale and there is an urgent need to drive forward the science to exploit this fact and put into place clever technological solutions for reducing CO 2 emissions.
Chemistry World December 21, 2011 James Urquhart	For clean carbon dioxide conversion just add water Japanese researchers have shown that photocatalytic reduction of CO 2 is possible using water as the reducing agent.
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Chemistry World October 2007 Stuart Haszeldine	How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D.
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Michael Singer	Intel Beams Up Silicon The ability to build a laser from standard silicon could lead to inexpensive optical devices that move data inside and between computers.
Finance & Development March 2008 William R. Cline	Global Warming and Agriculture If steps are not taken to curb carbon emissions, agricultural productivity could fall dramatically, especially in developing countries.
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 John Carey	Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? The amounts of carbon in the atmosphere are out of whack with predictions and reported output.
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown	NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.
Finance & Development December 2009 Bjorn Lomborg	Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions.
Chemistry World January 3, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Recycling Carbon Dioxide Into Petrol A new reactor could make chemically recycling carbon dioxide back into petrol a worthwhile endeavour.
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell	Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemistry World October 2, 2014 Tim Wogan	Photosynthesis-free route to oxygen gives early Earth atmosphere clues A direct mechanism for producing oxygen from carbon dioxide using far ultraviolet radiation has been experimentally demonstrated by researchers in the US, confirming a 14-year-old theoretical prediction.
Technology Research News April 23, 2003	Material makes backwards lens Researchers from the University of Toronto have constructed a prototype lens composed of a network of wires and tiny split rings that causes microwaves to have a negative bend, or index of refraction.