Technology and Human Environment

The passage of time has connected the invention of the wheel with more than ten million miles of paved roads around the world today, and the capture of fire with…

“Heresies” continued news and blog coverage

Jesse’s recent paper, “Renewable and Nuclear Heresies” continues to get a lot of news coverage. For more interesting reading, the journal PNAS has made the full text of Thomas Gold’s…

Deep Carbon Observatory News

Way back in 2007-2009, inspired by the late Tommy Gold, Jesse Ausubel joined Robert Hazen and Russell Hemley in launching the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO). The program is now at…

Science news January 2005

Science News featured our work on DNA barcoding of birds as its cover story 4 December with a great cover illustration. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/ScienceNews_4Dec2004.pdf…

The Continental SuperGrid concept

The Continental SuperGrid concept for distribution of hydrogen and electricity that we have aided and abetted is gaining attention. An AP story in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-04-10-super-grid_x.htm A Science Daily news

The Hidden Majority of Marine Life

For a lively summary of the latest news from the Census of Marine Life, including still images and videos, visit the news release about “hard-to-see” creatures. Learn about a carpet…

More Cockroach coverage

…aired on Russia’s largest news network, Channel One, a 3″ segment with excellent footage of New York City. And Germany’s Deutsche Radio Wissen ran a story with Christoph von Beeren…

Deep Carbon Observatory discoveries

…together. Here are news stories about the discoveries by Reuters, The Independent newspaper, EFE (the Spanish news wire), and New Energy and Fuel. And in Chinese and Russian.    …