NASA sees Typhoon Nida make landfall
NASA's Terra satellite flew over Typhoon Nida shortly after it made landfall just north of Hong Kong.
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2016
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Managing uncertainty: How soil carbon feedbacks could affect climate change
There is more than twice as much carbon in the planet's soils than there is in its atmosphere, so the loss of even a small proportion of that could have a profound feedback effect on the global climate.
Environment
Aug 2, 2016
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NASA's new CO2 sounder nearly ready for prime time
After years of work, a team of NASA scientists and engineers is poised to realize a lifetime goal: building an instrument powerful and accurate enough to gather around-the-clock global atmospheric carbon-dioxide (CO2) measurements ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2016
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Giant forest fires exterminate spotted owls, long-term study finds
As climate changes and wildfires get larger, hotter and more frequent, how should public lands in the American West be managed to protect endangered creatures that, like the spotted owl, rely on fire-prone old-growth forests?
Environment
Aug 2, 2016
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Substitute teachers and replacement nurses may cause disease to spread faster (Update)
Imagine a nurse who gets the flu while working at a hospital. He goes home to recover—and an uninfected replacement nurse comes in. This kind of substitution happens all the time in the real world—teachers, doctors, firefighters ...
General Physics
Aug 2, 2016
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How effective are personalized political ads on Facebook?
In this election year, political advertising on social networking sites such as Facebook is increasingly making use of personalized ads to target specific social media users. The effectiveness of online political microtargeting ...
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2016
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NASA catches visible and infrared views of Tropical Storm Howard
NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters with visible and infrared imagery of Tropical Storm Howard as it continued moving west through the waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Aug. 1 and 2.
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2016
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Scientists' annual physical of planet: 'Earth's fever rises'
Earth's fever got worse last year, breaking dozens of climate records, scientists said in a massive report nicknamed the annual physical for the planet.
Environment
Aug 2, 2016
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Some types of quantum entanglement cannot be both monogamous and faithful
(Phys.org)—As might be expected, the terms "monogamous" and "faithful" mean something a little different in the quantum world than they do in everyday language. In a new paper, a collaboration of physicists and mathematicians ...
Public eagerly awaits foul smell of garden's 'corpse flower'
Washington botany enthusiasts are salivating over the possibility that an exotic plant is about to finally bloom and produce a huge and memorable stink.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2016
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