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Halloween weekend snow paints a ghostly picture in the U.S. northeast

(PhysOrg.com) -- A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Weekend effect' makes people happier regardless of their job, study says

From construction laborers and secretaries to physicians and lawyers, people experience better moods, greater vitality, and fewer aches and pains from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, concludes the first ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Are holiday and weekend eating patterns affecting obesity rates?

The holidays can be challenging for even the most diligent dieters. But are weekends just as detrimental? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., found that weekend eating patterns ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Groupon stock tumbles as IPO lock-up period ends

(AP) — Groupon's stock tumbled Friday as insiders sold their shares after a post-IPO prohibition was lifted.

Technology / Business

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Germany sets weekend record for solar power

(Phys.org) -- Solar power plants in Germany have set a new record. “Never before anywhere has a country produced as much photovoltaic electricity," said Norbert Allnoch, Germany’s director of the ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (17) | comments 42 | with audio podcast report

Review: A mapping contender emerges in MapQuest

(AP) — The summer travel season has arrived in the U.S., and with gas prices going down, it's time to plan a road trip.

Technology / Software

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Typhoon Sanvu had a bad weekend

Typhoon Sanvu had a bad weekend. It went from Typhoon status on May 25 to an extra-tropical storm and finally into a remnant low pressure area by May 29, 2012.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellites watch Tropical Storm Beryl

Tropical Storm Beryl formed off the Carolina coast on Friday, May 25 as "System 94L" and later that day became the second tropical storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, before the season even started. Over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sun-powered plane trip delayed by wind

The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse has been delayed by strong winds during a stop-off on its first planned intercontinental flight, organisers said on Monday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Typhoon Sanvu affecting Iwo To, then expected to fade over weekend

Infrared and visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite taken on May 25, 2012, showed an impressive Typhoon Sanvu already affecting the islands of Iwo To and Chichi Jima, Japan. The typhoon is expected to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees Hurricane Bud threaten western Mexico's coast

NASA satellites are providing rainfall, temperature, pressure, visible and infrared data to forecasters as Hurricane Bud is expected to make a quick landfall in western Mexico this weekend before turning back ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth

After decades spent scanning the heavens for signs of life elsewhere in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is stepping back, and letting a colleague take charge of the quest.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 13

Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skyward

From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan's Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing "ring of fire."

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2


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