DOE and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have awarded $564 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to 19 integrated biorefinery projects. Located in 15 states, the projects will validate biorefining technologies and help lay the foundation for…

WASHINGTON -- Talented engineering students who have ideas on how future explorers might live on the moon could find themselves working at NASA as paid interns. The 2010 NASA Moon Work engineering design challenge seeks to motivate college students by…

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. This mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production,…

Scientists Build First ËœFrequency Comb To Display Visible ËœTeeth Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the…

An iceberg is seen out the window of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft as it flies 2,000 feet above the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica on Wednesday, Oct., 21, 2009. This was taken on the fourth science flight of NASA's Operation…

WASHINGTON -- A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown world. The Mercury Surface, Space Environment,…

Four-year agreement supports projects totaling $7.2 million Healthy coral reef. Photo courtesy NOAA NOAA and The Nature Conservancy have entered into an agreement to protect the health of the nations valuable but increasingly vulnerable coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean,…

Daylight Saving Time (DST) will end on Sunday, November 1, 2009. On November 1 at 2 AM local time, clocks should be set back one hour (to 1 AM local time) to switch from DST to Standard Time. (This does…

Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comba…

Wide-spread melt ponds observed by NOAA's North Pole Web cam. Photo courtesy NOAA Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years…

El Niño in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor that will influence the December through February winter weather in the United States, according to the 2009 Winter Outlook released by NOAAs…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the availability of a new online resource for local governments that assists community leaders and local stakeholders in building sustainable local solar markets. The online publication, Solar Powering Your Community: A Guide…