Taking a Shot at the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- This July, for a thrilling eight minutes, NASA researchers will get a peek at one of the sun's most mysterious regions.
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2010
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Games defeat e-mail as online time eaters
(AP) -- For the first time, games have overtaken e-mail as Americans' No. 2 online time killer, according to new research from the Nielsen Co.
Internet
Aug 2, 2010
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'Wait-and-see' effect not always caused by economic uncertainty, research shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Business uncertainty leads to quick drops in economic activity, according to a long-held belief in economics. New research from the University of Notre Dame casts doubt on that assumption.
Economics & Business
Aug 2, 2010
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New study examines effects of drought in the Amazon
Recent research surrounding the impact of drought in the Amazon has provided contradictory findings as to how tropical forests react to a drier and warmer climate. A new study published in the August 2 Early Edition of the ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2010
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UH salt marsh expert studies damage to Gulf Coast
A giant vacuum powered by a lawnmower engine may not seem like a tool for scientific study, but salt marsh experts from the University of Houston are using the contraption to study the effects of the oil spill on insects ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2010
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Windy cities: Researchers invent new tool to calculate hurricane risk
Bad news, Miami. Of all Florida's major population centers, the city is the most vulnerable to strong hurricane winds, according to Florida State University researchers who developed a new tool to estimate the frequency of ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2010
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Sociologist finds combat veterans face more lifelong socioeconomic challenges
From the many images sent home from foreign battlefields over the last several decades, Americans have viewed the plight of their country's combat-weary veterans as stark and often iconic scenes that seem somehow frozen in ...
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2010
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Blue whales align the pitch of their songs with extreme accuracy, study finds
Blue whales are able to synchronize the pitch of their calls with an extremely high level of accuracy, and a very slim margin of error from call to call, according to a new study of the blue whale population in the eastern ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2010
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Rebuilding flood plains, agriculture, economy
When the Missouri River flooded in 1993 and 1995, it left a deep layer of sandy silt that covered thousands of acres of rich farmland. Now, MU forestry researchers may have found a crop that can survive a flood and act as ...
Ecology
Aug 2, 2010
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Safe and efficient de-orbit of space junk without making the problem worse
Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) announced that Dr. Kristin L. Gates will present a paper on de-orbiting space junk at the August 2 Artificial and Natural Space Debris session of the AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference ...
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2010
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