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Ground-Based GPS Ionosphere Monitoring System Enhances Air Safety

ground based detection of disturbances of the satellite signals or in the atmosphere to inform air traffic controlFurther Information: PDF Erfinderzentrum…

Earth Sciences

PALAOA: Five Years of Underwater Acoustic Innovation

Listen live on the Internet to what’s going on under the Antarctic sea-ice. The Alfred Wegener Institute’s PALAOA underwater acoustic observatory has made this…

Environmental Conservation

More than 31 freshwater species have 'moved' to Galicia over past century

An analysis of the introduction of non-native species in Galicia and the Iberian Peninsula carried out by researchers from the University of Santiago de…

Materials Sciences

LSU Professor Develops Method to Assess Metal End of Life

Though the prevalence of machinery has allowed us to build bigger, travel faster and create more quickly with complexity increasing as science advances, our…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhanced Methods for Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae

These supernovae are currently the best way to measure dark energy because they are visible across intergalactic space. Also, they can function as “standard…

Physics & Astronomy

Crab Nebula Dimming: LSU Physicists Uncover Key Insights

The Crab Nebula, once considered to be a source of energy so stable that astronomers used it to calibrate their instruments, is dimming. LSU physicists Mike…

Life & Chemistry

100-Year-Old Specimens Reveal Avian Pox Arrival in Galapagos

A research team from across the United States and Ecuador has pinpointed 1898 as the year the avipoxvirus, or avian pox, hit the Galapagos Islands and started…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding PSA Levels in Prostate Cancer Progression

“This is the first demonstration of a mechanism that explains why PSA is a bad thing for a tumor to produce,” said senior author Sal Pizzo, M.D., Ph.D., chair…

Health & Medicine

New Call for Population-Wide Salt Reduction to Combat Heart Disease

The Importance of Population-Wide Sodium Reduction as a Means to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and StrokeThe American Heart Association today issued a call to…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Reveal Enhanced La Niña Patterns

A new Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 satellite image of the Pacific Ocean that averaged 10 days of data was just released from NASA. The…

Life & Chemistry

UCSF Study Discovers Chemicals in Pregnant Women’s Bodies

Analyzing data for 163 chemicals, researchers detected polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides, perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), phenols,…

Physics & Astronomy

In Deep Galaxy Surveys, Astronomers Get a Boost from Gravity

In a presentation at the American Astronomical Society meeting this week and a related paper in the current issue of the journal Nature, researchers say that…

Earth Sciences

Researchers Discover ‘Great-Grandmother’ of Crocodiles

Modern man probably wouldn’t recognize its body, which was built more for land speed than aquatic surprise, said Sankar Chatterjee, curator of paleontology at…

Earth Sciences

New Predator “Dawn Runner” Discovered in Dinosaur Graveyard

Sporting a long neck and tail and weighing only 10 to 15 pounds, the new dinosaur has been named Eodromaeus, the “dawn runner.”“It really is the earliest look…

Information Technology

USM develops software application for testing soil strength and gradient

The application, known as ‘Slopen’, can help developers and contractors in their work, especially before putting up a new construction in a particular area. A…

Physics & Astronomy

Half-Height Magnetization Steps Observed in Sr2RuO4

“We've been on the trail of a state of matter called a half-quantum vortex for more than three years,” said Budakian. “First proposed in the 1970s to exist in…

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