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In an effort to create one of Japan's greenest urban areas and clean up its air by reducing CO2 emissions, Japan announced that two gigantic solar power generation plants will be installed in Sakai City.

The title of the project is quite a mouth full – the Sakai CityWaterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan. Say that three times fast.I guess the title has to be fitting for the size of the project,however, because the two facilities will have a 28,000 kW combinedmaximum capacity and will...

The lunar landscapes of Chile's Atacama Desert, which stretches for about 650 miles along the Pacific Ocean to the Peruvian Border, is generally considered the driest place on earth, wedged between the rain shadows of the Andes to the east and the coast ranges to the west, while the cold Humboldt Current off the coast suppresses evaporation from the ocean. There are places in the Atacama where there has been no recorded orobserved rainfall in the 400+ years since the Spaniards first arrived....

In an effort to create one of Japan's greenest urban areas and clean up its air by reducing CO2 emissions, Japan announced that two gigantic solar power generation plants will be installed in Sakai City.

The title of the project is quite a mouth full ??? the Sakai CityWaterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan. Say that three times fast.I guess the title has to be fitting for the size of the project,however, because the two facilities will have a 28,000 kW combinedmaximum capacity and will...

The lunar landscapes of Chile's Atacama Desert, which stretches for about 650 miles along the Pacific Ocean to the Peruvian Border, is generally considered the driest place on earth, wedged between the rain shadows of the Andes to the east and the coast ranges to the west, while the cold Humboldt Current off the coast suppresses evaporation from the ocean. There are places in the Atacama where there has been no recorded orobserved rainfall in the 400+ years since the Spaniards first arrived....

The internet has caused trouble in science classrooms:  with Google and Wikipedia it's difficult to know if somebody understands the material or just how to copy and paste.  Wired editor Chris Anderson has raised the stakes by claiming that the modern wealth of data renders the entire scientific method obsolete.  Like finding your wife rubbing butter onto a naked clown shaving your dog, there's just so much wrong with that it's hard to know where to begin.

Luckily your friends at The Daily...

The internet has caused trouble in science classrooms:  with Google and Wikipedia it's difficult to know if somebody understands the material or just how to copy and paste.  Wired editor Chris Anderson has raised the stakes by claiming that the modern wealth of data renders the entire scientific method obsolete.  Like finding your wife rubbing butter onto a naked clown shaving your dog, there's just so much wrong with that it's hard to know where to begin.

Luckily your friends at The Daily...

Excellent news for fans of computer technology, neuroscience, and people who think that us telling the machines what to do is totally backwards.  We reported on the attempts of the Swiss Mind Brain Institute to simulate the neocortical column of the rat last May, and they've recently announced success of the first phase of their project.

They've successfully simulated the neocortical column of a rat – only afraction of a full brain, but they proved that you don't get to doworld-shattering...

Excellent news for fans of computer technology, neuroscience, and people who think that us telling the machines what to do is totally backwards.  We reported on the attempts of the Swiss Mind Brain Institute to simulate the neocortical column of the rat last May, and they've recently announced success of the first phase of their project.

They've successfully simulated the neocortical column of a rat ??? only afraction of a full brain, but they proved that you don't get to doworld-shattering...

In a world where the Chinese are apparently hacking everything in sight, spam is an everyday occurrence, and someone from Nigeria or Ghana always wants to give you money, it doesn’t come as any real surprise to learn that the Pentagon has an elite crack staff of hackers ensuring that at least the US national secrets are safe.

When Popular Mechanics writer Glenn Derene contacted the NationalSecurity Agency (NSA) in hopes of acquiring an interview with a memberof the almost mythical elite...

The Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier Object 16, M16 or NGC 6611),  one of the most famous and easily recognized space objects, is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46. It is associated with a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, of active current star formation is about 7,000 light-years distant. and the famed "Pillars of Creation" is a large region of star formation.

In a world where the Chinese are apparently hacking everything in sight, spam is an everyday occurrence, and someone from Nigeria or Ghana always wants to give you money, it doesn???t come as any real surprise to learn that the Pentagon has an elite crack staff of hackers ensuring that at least the US national secrets are safe.

When Popular Mechanics writer Glenn Derene contacted the NationalSecurity Agency (NSA) in hopes of acquiring an interview with a memberof the almost mythical elite...

The Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier Object 16, M16 or NGC 6611),  one of the most famous and easily recognized space objects, is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46. It is associated with a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, of active current star formation is about 7,000 light-years distant. and the famed "Pillars of Creation" is a large region of star formation.

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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) kicks off NASA's search for the next lunar landing site and manned mission to the moon andthen to travel to Mars and beyond, supporting the extension ofhuman presence in the solar system.

LRO will launch November 2008 with the objectives to finding safe landing sites,locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and shake down new technology. LRO will create the most accurate and comprehensive topographic maps ofthe lunar surface to...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) kicks off NASA's search for the next lunar landing site and manned mission to the moon andthen to travel to Mars and beyond, supporting the extension ofhuman presence in the solar system.

LRO will launch November 2008 with the objectives to finding safe landing sites,locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and shake down new technology. LRO will create the most accurate and comprehensive topographic maps ofthe lunar surface to...

The study of the human brain is one of the most fascinating, and incredibly meta, subjects in existence.  The almost Escherian experiments of one brain studying another brain (which is thinking about being studied by the first) have up to now been held back by one thing: the brain's owner is kind of using it so you can't poke too hard.  Now a new scanning technique has allowed scientists to probe deeper than ever into the secrets of the mind.

The non-invasive technique of Diffusive Spectrum...

The study of the human brain is one of the most fascinating, and incredibly meta, subjects in existence.  The almost Escherian experiments of one brain studying another brain (which is thinking about being studied by the first) have up to now been held back by one thing: the brain's owner is kind of using it so you can't poke too hard.  Now a new scanning technique has allowed scientists to probe deeper than ever into the secrets of the mind.

The non-invasive technique of Diffusive Spectrum...

Earlier this year, shortly after Russia claimed a vast portion ofthe Arctic sea floor, accelerating an international race for thenatural resources as global warming opens polar access, China hasannounced plans to map "every inch" of the surface of the Moon andexploit the vast quantities of Helium-3 thought to lie buried in lunarrocks as part of its ambitious space-exploration program.

Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quotedon government-sanctioned news site...

Earlier this year, shortly after Russia claimed a vast portion ofthe Arctic sea floor, accelerating an international race for thenatural resources as global warming opens polar access, China hasannounced plans to map "every inch" of the surface of the Moon andexploit the vast quantities of Helium-3 thought to lie buried in lunarrocks as part of its ambitious space-exploration program.

Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quotedon government-sanctioned news site...

The Tunguska Event, a massive explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m.on June 30, 1908, has been the focus of much speculation in the past hundred years. Theories such as the end of the world (this was, not surprisingly, quickly dismissed due to conclusive evidence to the contrary), a natural H-bomb, a black hole, an antimatter explosion and even the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo, have all kept the speculators busy.

However...

The Tunguska Event, a massive explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m.on June 30, 1908, has been the focus of much speculation in the past hundred years. Theories such as the end of the world (this was, not surprisingly, quickly dismissed due to conclusive evidence to the contrary), a natural H-bomb, a black hole, an antimatter explosion and even the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo, have all kept the speculators busy.

However...

Horoscope enthusiasts will be happy to hear that a grand cosmic force does indeed seem to be responsible for controlling the direction of all life on Earth. However, this grand cosmic cycle has more to do with extinction than finding a tall, handsome stranger.

Early last year, research revealed that the rise and fall of species on Earth seems to be driven by the undulating motions of our solar system as it travels through the Milky Way. Some scientists believe that this cosmic force may offer...

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