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A new apartment complex in Germany is intentionally growing an algae farm on its facade, in order to power the building. The hope to use the green slime to produce the building’s heat, as well as cool the building. It’s a new definition of "green!"

Will we see more green buildings in the future? In the April 25th edition of the New York Times, David Wallis quotes the building’s publicist, Rainer Muller, as saying, "Using algae as an in-house energy source might sound futuristic now, but probably will be established in 10 years."

The algae are farmed on adjustable louvers which cover the building’s surface and are fed liquid nutrients and CO2.
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For years, the scholarly establishment has dismissed the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, carbon dated last year to the 15th Century, as a hoax designed to deceive early book collectors, but now a team of specialists at the University of Manchester in the UK have strong evidence that the text is not simply random invention, but an actual unknown language. They used a new approach that they are developing called the ‘entropy approach’ to determine whether or not real language is involved in the manuscript. The letters in the text cannot be read, but the words can be compared to each other even though their meaning remains unknown.read more

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The National UFO Reporting Center received 90 UFO reports on July 4. Some were probably fireworks, others sky lanterns, but at least 50 of the descriptions provided by witnesses suggest possible unknowns. Descriptions such as "12 large bright red spheres line up low in the sky and travel slowly across the Midnight sky towards Canada," and "Huge bright red/orange oval craft moved straight across the sky on July 4, 2013 at 11:15pm Long Island, NY" do not suggest either fireworks or sky lanterns.
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Changes in coastal ocean temperatures have been much more extreme over the past 10 years than expected. This could especially affect California, which is a major breadbasket for the rest of the United States.

Researchers have also found that temperature determines where key soil microbes can thrive– microbes that are critical to forming topsoil crusts in arid lands. Scientists predict that in as little as 50 years, global warming may push some of these microbes out of their present stronghold in US deserts, with unknown consequences to soil fertility and erosion.
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