News tagged with airborne droplets

Researchers invent next-gen device to track world's air quality

A new air-quality measuring instrument invented by Pat Arnott and Ian Arnold of the University of Nevada, Reno that is more economical, more portable and more accurate than older technologies has been licensed ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Needle-free, inhalant powder measles vaccine could save thousands of lives

The first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually, according ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Miniature sensors may advance climate studies

(Phys.org) -- An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to cheaply and easily collect atmospheric samples to improve computer climate models.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gases drawn into smog particles stay there, study reveals

Airborne gases get sucked into stubborn smog particles from which they cannot escape, according to findings by UC Irvine and other researchers published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Probing a link from Sahara dust to climate change

Qilong Min, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate and Professor with the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the University at Albany is developing innovative ways to measure how dust in the Sahara Desert ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemical measurements confirm official estimate of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill rate

By combining detailed chemical measurements in the deep ocean, in the oil slick, and in the air, NOAA scientists and academic colleagues have independently estimated how fast gases and oil were leaking during ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds a weak spot on deadly ebolavirus

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have isolated and analyzed an antibody that neutralizes Sudan virus, a major species of ebolavirus ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sunlight changes aerosols in clouds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's climate models regard organic aerosols as static carbon-based molecules, but scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine showed that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists probe Indian Ocean for clues to worldwide weather patterns

An international team of researchers will begin gathering in the Indian Ocean next month to study how tropical weather brews there and then moves eastward along the equator with reverberating effects around ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Orange goo near remote Alaska village ID'd as eggs

(AP) -- Scientists have identified an orange-colored gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets.

Biology / Other

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 9

Eat, prey, rain

What do a herd of gazelles and a fluffy mass of clouds have in common? A mathematical formula that describes the population dynamics of such prey animals as gazelles and their predators has been used to model the relationship ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scarlet fever pathogen draft genome sequence released

Scarlet fever has revealed unusual high infect rate in Hong Kong this year. So far, 466 children were infected and 2 of them dead. Scarlet fever is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a gram-positive pathogen that can be tra ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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