July 2007


Sustainable Developments: Making Development Less Risky (extended edition)

Jeffrey D. Sachs

How’s the Universe Today?
Meteorite hunter Rob Matson invites Neil deGrasse Tyson to the Mojave Desert.
NOVA scienceNOW

Postscripts on Geodynamo’s Beginnings

Offsets deliver where it matters
The backlash against carbon offsetting could whip away funds from some key projects in Asia and Africa.

NOVA scienceNOW: Dispatch: Biggest Machine Ever Built
When the Large Hadron Collider goes online in 2008, it will be largest and most expensive machine ever created. But why build an $8 billion behemoth to search for the smallest particles in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson has given the question some thought.
NOVA

SciAm Mind: Mothers’ Little Criminals


Reviews: Cosmic Questions–Baboon Melodrama–Cold Coors

California cuts diesel emissions
Tough new rules in California aim to cut emissions from diesel engines over the next two decades.

NOVA scienceNOW: Ask The Expert: Space Elevator
Brad Edwards answered selected viewer questions about space elevators on January 16, 2007.
NOVA

NOVA scienceNOW: Dispatch: Biggest Machine Ever Built
When the Large Hadron Collider goes online in 2008, it will be largest and most expensive machine ever created. But why build an $8 billion behemoth to search for the smallest particles in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson has given the question some thought.
NOVA

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