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Mathematicians provide new insight into tsunamis

A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Evolution during human colonizations

Most human populations are the product of a series of range expansions having occurred since modern humans left Africa some 50,000 years ago to colonize the rest of the world, but how have these processes influenced today's ...

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Cities affect storms, but downwind areas can get the worst of it

(PhysOrg.com) -- Urban areas modify thunderstorms that can eventually get stronger and more violent as they leave the cities and move to downwind areas, according to a Purdue University study.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Primitive frogs do a belly flop: Study shows frogs evolved jumping before they refined landing (w/ Video)

Sometimes divers, to their own painful dismay, do belly flops. But did you ever see a frog belly flop? That's just what primitive living frogs do, according to a new study1 by Dr. Richard Essner, from Southern Illinois University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oceanic seesaw links Northern and Southern hemisphere during abrupt climate change

Very large and abrupt changes in temperature recorded over Greenland and across the North Atlantic during the last Ice Age were actually global in extent, according to an international team of researchers led by Cardiff University.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 8

New satellite movie chases post-Tropical Storm Alberto in Atlantic

On May 23, 2012, the remnants of post-tropical storm Alberto were chasing a frontal system over the Atlantic Ocean, several hundred miles east of the U.S. East coast. A new NASA animation of imagery from NOAA's GOES-15 satellite ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Another severe weather system seen on satellite movie from NASA

Another powerful weather system is moving through the central and eastern U.S., generating more severe weather. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellite movie shows movement of tornadic weather system

A satellite animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES satellite ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GOES-13 satellite sees 'giant white spike' of clouds bringing U.S. severe weather

(PhysOrg.com) -- Severe weather is expected to impact the southeastern U.S. today, and the GOES-13 satellite captured an image of a line of clouds associated with the strong cold front that looks like a giant ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

TRMM satellite sees deadly tornadic thunderstorms in Southeastern US

Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

GOES satellite eyeing late season lows for tropical development

Its late in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific hurricane seasons, but the calendar isn't stopping the tropics. The GOES-13 satellite is keeping forecasters informed about developing lows like System 90E in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Swiss warn massive ice chunk may break off glacier

A massive part of a glacier the size of 12 football fields in the Swiss Alps could break off, local authorities warned, after the discovery of an enormous crevasse in the glacier.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Yahoo, ABC joining forces in news partnership

(AP) -- ABC News is joining forces with Yahoo Inc. to deliver more digital news content to their audiences. With the deal, ABC News content will be prominently featured on the Yahoo News and Yahoo front page.

Technology / Business

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook finetunes news feeds from friends

Facebook on Tuesday began rolling out the latest in a rapid-fire series of enhancements to the leading social network as nascent rival Google+ opened its membership to the world.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

One reporter's look back at the space shuttle era

(AP) -- A space shuttle commander once confided that countdowns were invented merely to make astronauts nervous, and he was - every time. But when the count reached zero and the booster rockets ignited, he ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0