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Doppler Ultrasound Helps Scientists Understand Fescue Toxicosis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Doppler technology -- the very same technology used by meteorologists to track thunderstorms -- is being used by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists to better understand the rate ...

Biology / Other

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tech advancements improving accuracy in predicting weather

Study weather reports online, and you might want to give up on meteorology. "Deadly" storms fizzle, while weaker-looking fronts devastate. Temperatures often soar above predicted highs or plummet below predicted lows.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Bluetooth baby

Checking the heart of the unborn baby usually involves a stethoscope. However, an inexpensive and accurate Bluetooth fetal heart rate monitoring system has now been developed by researchers in India for long-term home care. ...

Technology / Other

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists study of thunderstorm impacts on upper atmosphere

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and other organizations are targeting thunderstorms in Alabama, Colorado, and Oklahoma this spring to discover what happens when clouds suck ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

First atomic hydrogen spectral line images of a nearby galaxy

South Africa’s KAT-7 telescope, a seven-dish array which is a precursor to the much larger MeerKAT telescope in the Karoo and to the Square Kilometre Array, has reached another major milestone by observing ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Spacecraft completes biggest maneuver

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the biggest maneuver planned for the mission's journey between Earth and Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New instrument peers through the heart of the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomy has a powerful new tool to probe the structure of our galaxy. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) spectrograph is the newest instrument deployed by ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The world's biggest radar laboratory

In the past year, the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployed 18 new scanning radars at its research sites in Oklahoma, Alaska, and the tropical western Pacific. These ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Caltech-led team of astronomers finds 18 new planets

Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NRL's MIGHTI selected by NASA for potential space flight

A Naval Research Laboratory instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a future science mission that has been selected by NASA for evaluation for flight.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Which way does the wind blow? Let's find out!

On a bluff overlooking the Atlantic, Grady Koch spent a month watching ocean winds.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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