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Scientists Use High-energy Particles from Space to Probe Thunderstorms
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Florida Institute of Technology researchers are trying to solve one of the great mysteries in nature: how thunderstorms make lightning. Because, in principle, lightning is a big spark it should behave like ...
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Still a low chance of development for two lows
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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The two areas of thunderstorms in the Caribbean from yesterday, July 21, are on the move. One area is now moving into out of the Caribbean and into the eastern Atlantic Ocean while the other is now moving ...
Vamco's gusty remnants cause high wind warnings in Alaska's Aleutian Islands
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Aug 26, 2009 |
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The remnants from Typhoon Vamco are sweeping over Alaska's Aleutian Island chain today and tomorrow, and high wind warnings have been posted by the National Weather Service.
Super Typhoon Melor crossing Guam this weekend
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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Melor has become a Super Typhoon with sustained winds near 130 mph, and is crossing Guam and its islands this weekend. Warnings and watches are already up for the region.
Daily bathroom showers may deliver face full of pathogens, says study
Sep 14, 2009 |
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While daily bathroom showers provide invigorating relief and a good cleansing for millions of Americans, they also can deliver a face full of potentially pathogenic bacteria, according to a surprising new ...
Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earth's upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the dead of night. The annual Geminid meteor shower is ...
'Air shower' set to cut water use by 30 percent
Nov 09, 2006 |
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As Australians become increasingly alert to the importance of using water wisely in the home, CSIRO researchers have found a way to use a third less water when you shower – by adding air.
CROP project to set up large cosmic ray air shower experiment July 21
Jul 20, 2005 |
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Participants in this week's Cosmic Ray Observatory Project workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will set up a large cosmic ray air shower experiment on UNL's City Campus July 21 as the culminating exercise in the ...
Discovery to land at California's Edwards' Air Force Base (Update)
Aug 09, 2005 |
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Space Shuttle Discovery has been cleared to land Tuesday at California's Edwards Air Force Base after weather thwarted its planned landing in Florida, NASA officials said. Earlier, controllers passed over the ...
School classroom air may be more polluted with ultrafine particles than outdoor air
Dec 22, 2009 |
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The air in some school classrooms may contain higher levels of extremely small particles of pollutants — easily inhaled deep into the lungs — than polluted outdoor air, scientists in Australia and Germany ...
Atlantis Set to Land Today
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Jun 22, 2007 |
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Flight controllers decided to try landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., after weather failed to improve at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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