Peak Oil Addressed on TNETimes.com Earth Day Launch

Houston (Vocus) April 21, 2010 -- To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, The New Era Times, a fresh, online newspaper for all things spiritual, new age, metaphysical and eco-friendly will...

Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth

by Dr. Tony Phillips Science@NASA Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 28, 2010 Researchers using NASA's fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it "the spacequake."

Rocket Science Used To Make Wastewater Treatment Sustainable

Within the sludge of wastewater treatment plants is an invisible world teeming with microbes. Here, diverse species of bacteria convert solid and liquid wastes into gases, some of which contribute to global warming.Now two Stanford University engineers are developing a new sewage treatment process that would actually increase the production of two greenhouse gases nitrous oxide (aka, " ...

Leonard Nimoy Views Others as Mass MoCA

Leonard Nimoy, the Star Trek actor, talks about the solo exhibition of his photography at Mass MoCA.

River Gets Blame for Giant 1811 Earthquakes

Massive earthquakes that struck the town of New Madrid, Mo., in 1811 can be traced to the actions of the mighty Mississippi River thousands of years earlier, a new study in the journal Nature suggests.