Monsoon rainfall amount stable for decades
Heavy rains balanced by less frequent moderate rain during India's monsoon season keep the rain amounts in check, researchers said.
Heavy rains balanced by less frequent moderate rain during India's monsoon season keep the rain amounts in check, researchers said.
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2006
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Colorado's late fall snowstorms could disappear by mid-December due to the influence of an El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, said Klaus Wolter, a University of Colorado at Boulder and National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2006
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Forecasting when a major earthquake will erupt -- within a window of two to three years -- could be possible, based on mathematical studies by researchers at UC Davis, Boston University and the University of Western Ontario, ...
Mathematics
Dec 1, 2006
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High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a new species of butterfly has emerged as a hybrid of two existing species. It is the first time that this type of species formation has been shown in animals, according to the report ...
Dec 1, 2006
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A new law taking effect in North Carolina today (Dec. 1) is putting the brakes on cell phone use by teen drivers. But do teenagers yapping on the phone behind the wheel pose a bigger safety risk than other phone-wielding ...
Other
Dec 1, 2006
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To a non-scientist, the words 'radio occultation' might sound a little spooky. But this relatively simple NASA-developed technology at the heart of a new satellite network named Cosmic is proving to be a powerful new tool ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2006
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Scientists at the Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator and Detector Development (NICADD) are celebrating the successful run of a prototype sub-detector for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC).
General Physics
Dec 1, 2006
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AMD today demonstrated the industry’s first native quad-core x86 server processor, achieving four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon. At the annual AMD Industry Analyst Forum, a server powered by four upcoming ...
Hardware
Dec 1, 2006
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When it comes to digestive ability, termites have few rivals due to the gut activities that allow them to literally digest a two-by-four. But they do not digest wood by themselves--they are dependent on the 200 or so diverse ...
Dec 1, 2006
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It's 2015. You're NASA's chief engineer designing a moonbase for Shackleton Crater at the Moon's south pole. You're also designing a com-system that will allow astronauts constant radio contact with Earth.
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2006
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