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Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle

The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Going to Earth's core for climate insights

(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest evidence of the dominant role humans play in changing Earth's climate comes not from observations of Earth's ocean, atmosphere or land surface, but from deep within its molten core.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Statistical analysis projects future temperatures in North America

For the first time, researchers have been able to combine different climate models using spatial statistics - to project future seasonal temperature changes in regions across North America.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (21) | comments 50 | with audio podcast

Ancient catastrophic drought leads to question: How severe can climate change become?

How severe can climate change become in a warming world? Worse than anything we've seen in written history, according to results of a study appearing this week in the journal Science.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?

Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures. This could make the development of all but hardiest, simplest creatures a long ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Loss of planetary tilt could doom alien life

Although winter now grips much of the Northern Hemisphere, those who dislike the cold weather can rest assured that warmer months shall return. This familiar pattern of spring, summer, fall and winter does ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

New data still have scientists in dark over dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- A dark-matter experiment deep in the Soudan mine of Minnesota now has detected a seasonal signal variation similar to one an Italian experiment has been reporting for more than a decade.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Experts warn epic weather ravaging US could worsen

Epic floods, massive wildfires, drought and the deadliest tornado season in 60 years are ravaging the United States, with scientists warning that climate change will bring even more extreme weather.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 64

Global warming means longer allergy seasons: study

Ragweed allergy season in North America has grown two to four weeks longer in recent years because of warmer temperatures and later fall frosts, researchers said.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (18) | comments 171

6,000-year climate record suggests longer droughts, drier climate for Pacific Northwest

University of Pittsburgh-led researchers extracted a 6,000-year climate record from a Washington lake that shows that the famously rain-soaked American Pacific Northwest could not only be in for longer dry ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Oklahoma, Texas set heat records in July

(AP) -- Sweltering may have reached a new record last month, as Oklahoma racked up the country's highest monthly average temperature ever.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 32

Microbial life on Mars: Could saltwater make it possible?

(PhysOrg.com) -- How common are droplets of saltwater on Mars? Could microbial life survive and reproduce in them? A new million-dollar NASA project led by the University of Michigan aims to answer those questions.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover 12 new frog species in India

Years of combing tropical mountain forests, shining flashlights under rocks and listening for croaks in the night have paid off for a team of Indian scientists which has discovered 12 new frog species plus ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 17, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Forest and savanna can switch quickly

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two recent studies have found that environmental changes can bring previously stable forests and grasslands to tipping points that produce sudden large-scale and sometimes irreversible changes ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast