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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Tropical Storm Carlos Soaking NT

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument onboard NASA's Aqua satellite measures cloud-top, sea surface and land temperatures. Those are important…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Infrared Data Reveals Intensifying Tropical Storm Dianne

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) infrared imagery suggests that Dianne's center of circulation is consolidating and getting organized. There are…

Studies and Analyses

Boost Physical Activity by Focusing on How, Not Why

Most people know that exercise is important to maintain and improve health; however, sedentary lifestyles and obesity rates are at all-time highs and have…

CeBIT 2011

How Computers Manage Data from 3D Scans Efficiently

“The 3D scanner scans the surface of an object and measures the position of every single point on its surface, and in doing so the scan of a building, for…

Earth Sciences

Heavy Rains from Tropical Storm Bingiza Impact Madagascar

Deadly Tropical Cyclone Bingiza, which crossed over northern Madagascar three days ago, has continued to affect Madagascar while moving along Madagascar's west…

Studies and Analyses

Stretching Before Running: Does It Prevent Injuries?

More than 70 million people worldwide run recreationally or competitively, and recently there has been controversy regarding whether runners should stretch…

Health & Medicine

New Targets for Preventing ESRD in Diabetics Identified

Now, the researchers at the University of Helsinki, University Hospital of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Finland, and at the Queen Elisabeth…

Information Technology

Service Providers Slow to Adopt Solutions as Internet Exhausts IP Addresses

He says:“Anticipating the shortage, the so-called Internet Engineering Task Force developed Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the nineties.“Surprisingly,…

Earth Sciences

Ten Years After Nisqually Quake, Northwest’s Seismic Dangers Still Lurk

Scientists from the University of Washington and the U.S. Geological Survey have increased their knowledge about the three different types of non-volcanic…

Life & Chemistry

A Genetic Mutation Allows Hudson River Fish to Adapt to PCBs

In a study published in the February 18, 2011, online issue of Science, they report that a population of Hudson River fish apparently evolved rapidly in…

Machine Engineering

PolyU experts raise standard in aero engine maintenance

The experts were working in collaboration with Hong Kong Aero Engine Services Limited (HAESL) (a joint venture between Rolls-Royce Group plc, Hong Kong…

Life & Chemistry

Emus emulate chick developmental stages

Birds are useful models in developmental biology, given their large, external eggs and an array of classic embryology techniques, but the study of avian…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Circadian Clocks: Day-Night Interactions

The mammalian circadian clock is thought to arise from the interactions of around 20 transcription factors with specific DNA sequences associated with morning,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Solar Systems in Formation: Key Discoveries

This is the first time that disk structures comparable in size to our own solar system have been resolved this clearly, revealing features such as rings and…

Health & Medicine

Smoking During Radiation: Survival Rates Impacted

Although the association between tobacco smoking and head and neck cancers has long been established, there had been little data until now showing whether…

Earth Sciences

Geologists Encounter Magma While Drilling Krafla Volcano

Geologists drilling an exploratory geothermal well in 2009 in the Krafla volcano in Iceland encountered a problem they were simply unprepared for: magma…

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