Search results for fay
Fay Comes Ashore in Florida
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2008 |
not rated yet |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's CloudSat and Aqua satellites are just two of NASA's fleet keeping eyes on Tropical Storm Fay. NASA is using these data to see cloud height and cloud temperatures which give hints at ...
Giant pipe organ in the solar atmosphere
Apr 19, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (13) |
0
Astronomers have found that the atmosphere of the Sun plays a kind of heavenly music. The magnetic field in the outer regions (the corona) of our nearest star forms loops that carry waves and behave rather like a musical ...
NASA satellites see Hispaniola was a tropical cyclone target five times in 2008
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 02, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
In 2008, residents of Hispaniola experienced one of their worst hurricane seasons in recent memory. Hispaniola, the Caribbean island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is located directly within ...
Redesigned protein accelerates blood clotting
Dec 22, 2008 |
not rated yet |
0
Researchers have made several, subtle changes in the structure of a key protein, dramatically increasing its ability to drive blood clotting, according to a study published in a December edition of the Journal of Thrombosis an ...
Missing: 2,000 elephants
Biology /
Dec 11, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savanna elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, now hover at about 1,000 animals, down from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Ivory poachers using automatic weapons ...
Premature babies have altered sensory responses in later life
Dec 22, 2008 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
Premature infants who need intensive care or surgery are less sensitive to thermal (hot and cold) sensations later in life, according to research conducted at UCL (University College London). The study, published in the journal ...
Novel imaging technique shows gray matter increase in brains of autistic children
Nov 28, 2007 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Using a novel imaging technique to study autistic children, researchers have found increased gray matter in the brain areas that govern social processing and learning by observation. Results of the study conducted at the ...
Time-Tunneling for Climate Change Clues
Nov 23, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you look closely at individual plant species' responses in the past, you may find that the largest effects of high carbon dioxide (CO2) levels occurred decades ago, according to Agricultural ...
Unsafe neighborhoods disable the elderly
May 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Elderly people who live below the poverty line and perceive their neighborhoods to be dangerous are more likely to have a mobility disability. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health suggest that e ...
Turtle nesting threatened by logging practices in Gabon, Smithsonian warns
Biology /
Mar 14, 2008 |
not rated yet |
0
Endangered sea turtles are victims of sloppy logging practices in the west central African country Gabon, according to a study led by William Laurance, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The study ...
Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
Biology /
Jun 12, 2007 |
3.7 / 5 (6) |
0
Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have ...
T.rex's oldest ancestor identified
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 04, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...
Research highlights need for national HIV strategy
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 30, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that well over one million people in the United States are infected with HIV/AIDS. New research from North Carolina State University shows that many of those infected ...
Pacific El Nino equals Atlantic hurricane calm: experts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2009 |
3.3 / 5 (4) |
0
The Pacific's El Nino ocean-warming phenomenon has resulted in an especially calm Atlantic hurricane season -- a welcome respite for Caribbean and southeastern US residents still smarting from a 2008 pounding.
NASA's SkyView Delivers the Multiwavelength Cosmos
Feb 04, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of ...
