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Vertical farms sprouting all over the world

26/01/2014 16:14
URBAN warehouses, derelict buildings and high-rises are the last places you'd expect to find the seeds of a green revolution. But from Singapore to Scranton, Pennsylvania, "vertical farms" are promising a new, environmentally friendly way to feed the rapidly swelling populations of cities...

Fruit and veg, fresh from the skyscraper

26/01/2014 16:13
IF YOU are the kind of person who can afford to be conscientious about what you eat, you are probably torn between rival concerns whenever you visit the supermarket. You want to keep food miles to a minimum, but you also want your greens to taste like they are fresh from the farm. Most of us,...

The u-bit may be omniscient, but it's no God particle

26/01/2014 16:10
TO CALL the Higgs boson the "God particle" is to invite the wrath of many a physicist. Religious objections aside, it overstates the case. The Higgs merely explains why other particles have mass – and even then it is only part of the story. It also obscures the origins of the term. Nobel laureate...

Squeeze light to teleport quantum energy

26/01/2014 16:08
by Katia Moskvitch Putting the squeeze on light may be the key to teleporting energy across vast distances. Although the amount of energy that could theoretically be transmitted is tiny for now, it could be enough to power quantum computers that don't overheat.For years physicists have been...

From i to u: Searching for the quantum master bit

26/01/2014 16:06
by Matthew Chalmers IF YOU'VE ever tried counting yourself to sleep, it's unlikely you did it using the square roots of sheep. The square root of a sheep is not something that seems to make much sense. You could, in theory, perform all sorts of arithmetical operations with them: add them, subtract...

Stephen Hawking's new theory offers black hole escape

26/01/2014 15:59
by Jacob Aron Stephen Hawking has a new mind-bending theory about black holes, the bizarre cosmic objects that cemented his reputation as the world's most famous living scientist. Rather than getting sucked into a singularity of confusion, read our explainer. What exactly is a black hole? Good...

Earliest Buddhist shrine found at Buddha's birthplace

26/01/2014 15:56
by Colin Barras Beneath a temple thought to mark the location of the Buddha's birth, archaeologists may have discovered the literal roots of the religion: an ancient tree shrine that predates all known Buddhist sites by at least 300 years. The archaeological record of Buddhism stretches back to...

Bee Deaths May Stem From Virus, Study Says

26/01/2014 15:54
By MICHAEL WINES The mysterious mass die-offs of honeybees that have wiped out roughly a third of commercial colonies each year since 2006 may be linked to a rapidly mutating virus that jumped from tobacco plants to soy plants to bees, according to a new study. [Read more] ...  

The Elders of Organic Farming

26/01/2014 15:51
By CAROL POGASH BIG SUR, Calif. — Among the sleek guests who meditate and do Downward Facing Dog here at the Esalen Institute, the farmers appeared to be out of place. They wore baggy jeans, suspenders and work boots and had long ago let their hair go gray. [Read more] ...  

New Evidence: The Universe Could Be A Hologram

31/12/2013 09:31
MessageToEagle.com - Scientists are now presenting new evidence that the Universe could be a huge projection, a hologram! If the Universe is a hologram then you are not real and what you are reading right now is text that doesn't exist. Are you willing to accept such an incredible scenario? Would...
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