Sitting Vs. Hunting: Both Use Same Amount Of Energy, Study Says, A New Plan to Fix California Water System - 7/26 KQED Science News Roundup

Sitting vs. hunting: Both use same amount of energy, study saysGet this: Although you may be just sitting at your desk or planted on your couch while reading this, you are burning the same number of calories as the hardest-working hunter-gatherer in East Africa.Indeed, the fact that you get from one place to another in your car, on a train or on a...

A New Plan to Fix California Water SystemCOURTLAND, Calif. - Flanked by the interior secretary and a federal environmental watchdog, Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his plan to reconfigure the state's oversubscribed water distribution system in hopes of satisfying the conflicting demands of Southern California cities, agribusinesses and environmentalists, which have competing claims on the flow of the Sacramento River, the state's largest source of fresh water.

Homemade Korean satellite to go boldly into spaceSEOUL (Reuters) - Years of rummaging through back-alley electronics stores will pay off later this year for a South Korean artist when he fulfills his dream of launching a homemade, basement-built satellite into space.

Man central to California parks department scandal says he told superiors about surplus funds - The Sacramento BeeThe man at the center of a financial scandal at the state Department of Parks and Recreation told The Bee this week that he repeatedly advised his superiors that the department was sitting on millions of dollars in surplus money.

Desert Solar May Pose Threat to Desert Biofuels | biofuels | ReWire | KCETDevelopment in the desert can cause serious dust pollution, and utility-scale solar is no exception to that rule. Any disturbance to the desert's delicate soils can loose tons of dust into the air.

WHO: On track to 15 million on AIDS drugs by 2015WASHINGTON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says the global target of 15 million people taking life-saving AIDS drugs by 2015 is just a first step. With 8 million people in poor countries taking them now, WHO's Dr. Gottfried Hirnschall told the International AIDS conference the world should meet the higher goal.

Smithsonian picks paleontologist to lead DC museumWASHINGTON (AP) â A paleontology expert who led a major excavation for ice age fossils of mammoths and mastodons in Colorado is being named the next director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington. The Smithsonian named Kirk Johnson, chief curator and vice president of research at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, to the post Thursday.

Did the huge Greenland glacier break apart because of global warming? Maybe not. (+video)An ice island about twice the size of Manhattan broke away from Greenland's Petermann Glacier last week, but the calving was likely caused by ocean currents, not global warming. Petermann glacier, a 70 km (43 mile) long tongue of ice that flows into the Arctic Ocean in northwest Greenland, recently calved an "ice island" approximately 130 square kilometers (50 sq.

Japan government names radiation physicist as new atomic regulator headTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government on Thursday nominated Shunichi Tanaka, an expert in radiation physics, to head a new safety regulator, taking a step forward in its efforts to restore trust in nuclear power, shattered by last year's Fukushima disaster.