NASA's GPM core satellite and NOAA's GOES-West satellite saw the Southern Pacific Ocean's Tropical Storm Tuni was being battered by wind shear and had lost its tropical characteristics.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2015
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Using statistically modeled maps drawn from satellite data and other sources, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have projected that the near-surface permafrost that presently underlies 38 percent of boreal and arctic Alaska ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2015
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Freedom of navigation operational assertions (FONAs) are assertive operations carried out mainly by the U.S. Navy when other nations impose what the U.S. considers excessive restrictions on the freedom of navigation anywhere ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2015
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Aroma, which is produced by a complex mixture of volatile compounds, plays an important role in consumers' perceptions of fresh fruits and vegetables. For example, studies have shown that the familiar aroma of fresh tomatoes ...
Biotechnology
Nov 30, 2015
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University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Aron Stubbins led a team of researchers to determine the levels of black carbon in Arctic rivers and found that the input of black carbon to the Arctic Ocean ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2015
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When Wake County Public Schools switched from a school assignment policy based on race to one based on socioeconomic status, schools became slightly more segregated, according to new research from Duke University's Sanford ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2015
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Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what they hear from their fathers. These songs, often used as mating calls, develop early in life as juvenile birds experiment ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2015
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It had been planned for several months, but as fate would have it, the University of Montreal hosted the Conférences de la montagne "Challenges of democracy" symposium less than a week after the attacks on Paris. No fewer ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2015
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It's laundry day and the only clean T-shirt sports the big logo of a brand that used to be trendy but is only embarrassing now. What can you do? Wait until the tumble dryer has finished and be too late for the date or just ...
Economics & Business
Nov 30, 2015
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Changed labor laws—with some states curtailing collective bargaining rights—may lessen political participation by teachers and other public employees, traditionally cornerstones in the election of Democrats, a Baylor ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2015
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