Fascinating photo essay portraying life literally on & atop active volcanoes. Among Indonesian villages. Beautiful, powerful shots — of volcanoes as well as village life & impact volcanoes have on people who live there. [If interested, accompanying article provides good context.]http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/volcano-culture/stanmeyer-photography” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

Scientists are preparing for “seven minutes of terror” as a Nasa spacecraft makes a nail-biting descent to the surface of Mars.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7400375.stm” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

Doctors say a 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was carrying her embryonic twin.http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/15/girl.twin.ap/index.html” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

The truck above is also powered by a wood gas generator, except this one runs on coffee grounds. The Cafe Racer is a 1975 GMC pickup that essentially burns up used coffee to create a combustible gas. The gas is filtered on its way to the engine and, Viola, a caffeine-powered truck.http://gas2.org/2008/05/14/a-truck-that-runs-on-coffee-grounds-and-how-wood-gas-powers-cars-with-garbage/” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

A California man has constructed a design that features twenty-five small turbines in lieu of the massive blades on a modern wind power plan. One day this may approach the production capacity of the behemoths.http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/twenty-five-turbines-are-better-than-one-the-sky-serpent/1172″ rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

Unfortunately, even though it would improve gas mileage, the decision is up to the marketing people.http://www.ecomodder.com/blog/2008/05/14/gm-engineers-say-all-cars-should-have-gas-mileage-display/” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

Galaxy NGC 3628, similar in size to our own Milky Way, is oriented…well, sideways. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080515.html” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

The whole problem with global warming starts with digging up and burning the carbon from plants and animals, in the form of coal and oil, that has been buried for millions of years. So two German scientists have a solution: Start burying stuff on a massive scale….http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/landfill-forests-47051404″ rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

Super-fast pilot whales have been observed sprinting after prey, likely to include giant squid. The rapid pursuit has brought comparisons with the fleet-footed land predator, the cheetah. The cetaceans even use the same, highly specialised hunting strategy that cheetahs use, scientists report in the Journal of Animal Ecology.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7400788.stm” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title

A new NASA-led study shows that human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth’s natural systems, from permafrost thawing to plants blooming earlier across Europe to lakes declining in productivity in Africa.http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/human_impact.html” rel=”dc:source” property=”dc:title