News tagged with streams
What's down with the Sun? Major drop in solar activity predicted
(PhysOrg.com) -- A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2011 |
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No-glasses 3-D technology to showcase at CES 2012
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stream TV Networks plans to introduce a line of products that feature 3-D viewing without glasses. What’s so special about its announcement, on top of scores of 3-D-without-glasses announcements? ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 26, 2011 |
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New model changes view of climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new, high-resolution global ocean circulation models, University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist Alan Condron, with Peter Winsor at the University of Alaska, report this week that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2011 |
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Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet
The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 09, 2012 |
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Marine scientists return with rare creatures from the deep
Scientists have just returned from a voyage with samples of rare animals and more than 10 possible new species in a trip which they say has revolutionised their thinking about deep-sea life in the Atlantic ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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What's to blame for wild weather? 'La Nada'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There’s no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Archaeologists discover Jordan's earliest buildings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert, providing archaeologists with a new perspective on how humans lived 20,000 years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Earth's climate change 20,000 years ago reversed the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean
An international team of investigators under the leadership of two researchers from the UAB demonstrates the response of the Atlantic Ocean circulation to climate change in the past. Global warming today could have similar ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Carbon nanoparticles break barriers -- and that may not be good
A study by researchers from the schools of science and medicine at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis examines the effects of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) on living cells. This work is among ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Magnetic nanochain detonates chemo barrage inside tumors
Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case Western Reserve University report.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Researchers use 'nano-Velcro' technology to improve capture of circulating cancer cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Circulating tumor cells, which play a crucial role in cancer metastasis, have been known to science for more than 100 years, and researchers have long endeavored to track and capture them. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Warm water causes extra-cold winters in northeastern North America and Northeastern Asia
If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing. After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But if you were just across the pond ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2011 |
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US rivers and streams saturated with carbon
Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings could ...
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Researchers pinpoint date and rate of Earth's most extreme extinction
It's well known that Earth's most severe mass extinction occurred about 250 million years ago. What's not well known is the specific time when the extinctions occurred. A team of researchers from North America ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes
Two talks at a scientific conference this week will propose a common root for an enormous deluge in western Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centered on Alabama in April 2011.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 05, 2011 |
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