Three NASA satellites are keeping tabs on Typhoon Megi and noticed that it was strengthening in the South China Sea today, but increasing wind shear may again weaken the system over the next couple of days.
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2010
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On an airboat on Lake Okeechobee, four University of Florida researchers prepare to launch an airplane -- by hand.
Engineering
Oct 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As Earth's climate warms, species are expected to shift their geographical ranges away from the equator or to higher elevations.
Ecology
Oct 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The landscape of Central Africa 65 million years ago was a low-elevation tropical belt, but the jury is still out on whether the region's mammals browsed and hunted beneath the canopy of a lush rainforest.
Archaeology
Oct 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to gauge the influence of notable scholarly papers, buzz-generating ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 20, 2010
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The key to solving one of the great puzzles in evolutionary biology, the origin of vertebrates -- animals with an internal skeleton made of bone -- has been revealed in new research from Dartmouth College and the University ...
Evolution
Oct 20, 2010
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Rare and expensive, precious metals such as platinum, rhodium and palladium are used extensively as catalysts on a large scale in preparing pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals, as well as for applications in energy ...
Other
Oct 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly published paper written by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher and his team could influence the way scientists think about global warming and its effects.
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2010
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Political polling in the U.S. is undergoing significant changes because of the growing popularity of cell phones and the diminishing number of Americans with traditional land lines, says Brian F. Schaffner, a political scientist ...
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2010
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(AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery needs more repair work before it can take off on its last flight.
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2010
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