In a novel use of clean energy, the world's most northerly town will soon be the first to get electricity from a sub-sea power station run on tidal currents tugged by the moon.
The United States has derailed for at least a year a Franco-German proposal for a global ban on human cloning that the U.S. antiabortion movement rejects as too narrow.
Security is being tightened at the world's nuclear power plants, an international watchdog agency said Monday, but it conceded that little can be done to shield a nuclear facility from a direct hit by an airliner.
Future U.S. Army operations in the field could rely on alternative fuels and biological methods to produce electricity, says a blue-ribbon committee of university and industry scientists. A report by the National Research Council's Board on Army Science and Technology found that fuel that can be produced on the spot from waste plant materials.
Spanish and American astrophysicists claim the universe we inhabit contains an infinite number of other universes like our own, called O-regions, that we will someday be able to contact. Jaume Garriga, of the University of Barcelona, and Alexander Vilenkin, of Tufts University, call the concept "many worlds in one."
Pat Murphy makes the case for solar energy to meet our future energy needs and lists recent advances.