On Friday, August 3, the low pressure area known as “System 90L” was being watched for development. It was located south of the Cape Verde Islands off the…
Unlike the more common double-rainbow, which consists of two separate and concentric rainbow arcs, the elusive twinned rainbow appears as two rainbows arcs…
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Details will be described at the SPIE conference on Quantum Communication and Quantum Imaging held in San Diego on August 15, 2012.Until now, the majority of…
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Haikui on August 5. The AIRS instrument captured an infrared image of the cloud temperatures that showed the…
“There is this disconnect among young people that somehow your emotions, your thought processes—things that have to do with your brain—are separate and…
When a patient undergoes a cardiac catheterization procedure such as a balloon angioplasty, there's a slight risk of a stroke or other neurological…
The study also demonstrates the unique capabilities of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s SLAC…
By some estimates, a third of Earth's organisms live in our planet's rocks and sediments, yet their lives are almost a complete mystery.This week, the work of…
Scientists have discovered a biological marker that may help to identify which depressed patients will respond to an experimental, rapid-acting antidepressant….
Forests hammered by windstorms, avalanches and wildfires may appear blighted, but a Washington State University researcher says such disturbances can be key to…
A program designed to encourage more healthful food choices through simple color-coded labels and the positioning of items in display cases was equally…
Despite the fact that car crashes are the leading cause of death for children older than three years in the U.S. and send more than 140,000 children to the…
Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, are an integral part of the NASA team working on the…
Existing technologies allow researchers to measure single molecules on the x and y axes of a 2-D plane. The new technology allows researchers to make height…
University of Arkansas physicists and their colleagues have determined important information about the nanoscale properties of materials called relaxors, which…