Global greenhouse gas emissions saw their biggest single-year jump ever between 2009 and 2010, exceeding worst-case scenario projections with an increase of 564 million tons. A newspaper collected interesting person-on-the-street reactions.
NEW FEATURE: What’s New In Science
Edited by "ThingsBreak", we introduce a new feature of Planet3.0, the What's New in Science page, which will feature abstracts of recent peer reviewed publications that may be of interest to the Planet3.0 community. [more]
Faster than light skepticism
What does real skepticism look like? Recently the field of particle physics provided us with a crystal clear example. A team of researches in Italy, who have been measuring neutrinos produced by the CERN particle accelerator have produced results that, if true, are truly extra ordinary. Using the OPERA particle detector they measured the length of time it took neutrinos to travel from... Continue Reading →