More than a precursor, pseudogap state may compete with superconductivity.

When it comes to keeping brains alive, it seems nature has deemed that females are more valuable than males.

The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering them in the earth, is not clean at all, he asserts.

Stable isotope techniques used on Mercenaria mercenaria have yielded valuable information on wastewater inputs in coastal waters.