Japan sees gold in warming

Kronenberg, J. Global warming, glaciers and gold mining. GLOBAL WARMING, GLACIERS AND GOLD MINING

Two case studies (Kumtor in the Kyrgyz Republic and Pascua-Lama in Chile–Argentina) are analysed, illustrating how gold mining interferes with glaciers and how this may be affected by changing perceptions on global warming. Although global warming presents new opportunities for the mining industry, increasing the physical accessibility of resources previously covered with glaciers, it may also ...

Electron diffraction sees hydrogen atoms

Dark Matter Sees The Light

We construct a Dark Matter (DM) annihilation module that can encompass the predictions from a wide array of models built to explain the recently reported PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS excesses. We present a detailed analysis of the injection spectrums for DM annihilation and quantitatively demonstrate effects that have previously not been included from the particle physics perspective. With this mod...

How the brain sees in three dimensions.

When Renaissance painters solved the problem of depicting three-dimensional (3D) scenes on flat canvases, their paintings blossomed into realistic representations of the world. Our brain must solve this problem every day to reconstruct 3D views from images that fall on the 2D surface of our retinas. Researchers have long known that we use various cues to accomplish this, such as the stereoscopi...

Edcompcon sees bright future in educational software

Torrey Byles, Contributing Editor Educational software publishing promises to be a billion dollar industry in less than three years, but today the market is saturated with too many suppliers, and the negligible profit margins are restricting investment in further development, according to speakers at Edcompcon in San Jose, November 8-10. Educational packages "are multiplying like mice in a barn...