Articles in Outlets
Echolocation by Smartphone Possible
Submarines, bats, and even humans can echolocate, but they need high-end acoustic gear, brainpower, or training in order to do it. Now electrical engineer Ivan Dokmanić, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in …
Cutbacks kick off kerfuffle over Spanish-German observatory
Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC) and Germany’s Max Planck Society agreed late last month to major budget cuts at the Hispano-German Astronomical Observatory at Calar Alto, Spain.
The new contract cuts the observatory’s 2014-2018 budget from …
New Agreement Casts Spotlight on Efforts to Inventory Black Carbon
Researchers are about to take a big step toward better understanding a tiny air pollutant. A U.N. expert panel earlier this month agreed on a technical road map that will guide the first multinational effort …
Spain replants after centuries of deforestation
Around this time of year in the Sierra de Guadarrama, a snow-capped mountain range outside Madrid, the snow is starting to melt. Below the tree line, the melting water soaks the earth in dense stands …
