Combining parallel data from separate satellites can be like trying to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

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(Phys.org) —New research from North Carolina State University finds that higher temperatures found in urban environments are a key contributor to higher populations of insect pests called scale insects ...

Biology - Ecology

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(Phys.org) —Acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background – the relic radiation from the Big Bang – was released today revealing the ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

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A research team in Japan exploring the functions of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) – a molecule that encodes the chemical blueprint for protein synthesis – has discovered a way to take a close look at the temperature ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 01, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

Google Maps opened a virtual path to the wonders of the Grand Canyon on Thursday by adding panoramic images gathered by hikers with Android-powered camera systems strapped to their backs.

Technology - Internet

Jan 31, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Online Map Tool is an interactive mapping application that can display more than 30 maps of soil and related environmental characteristics for the continent of Af ...

Space & Earth - Environment

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Marine diseases are killing coral populations all over the world, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people who depend on reefs for food and protection from storms. Are these diseases new and unprecedented infections, ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 09, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

In December 1972 the astronauts of Apollo 17-the last manned mission to the moon-deployed the Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment (LACE), a spectrometer designed to measure and characterize the thin lunar ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jul 18, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

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

May 15, 2012 3.5 / 5 (21) 50 |

A team of international scientists working in the central Pacific have discovered that coral which has survived heat stress in the past is more likely to survive it in the future.

Space & Earth - Environment

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The recently released USDA Plant Zone Hardiness Map, updating the previous 26-year-old zone map, reflects rising mean temperatures throughout the country, including Maine, where gardeners must carefully consider possible ...

Biology - Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Dec 08, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Germany and the US have developed a new approach to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thermometry using encaged hyperpolarized xenon as a temperature sensor. The method allows ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Sep 20, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

On September 6, 2009, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured this simulated natural color image of the Station fire, burning ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 09, 2009 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Australian scientists on Thursday announced a ground-breaking genome-mapping project that could help the Great Barrier Reef fight off the twin threats of climate change and toxic farm chemicals.

Biology - Biotechnology

Jul 30, 2009 3 / 5 (3) 0