News tagged with annual rings
Australia's climate: Drought and flooding in annual rings of tropical trees
Annual rings are acclaimed in representing natural climate archives. For the temperate latitudes it is known that the growth of these annual rings depend mainly on temperature and precipitation. In the tropics, however, ...
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Jun 11, 2009 |
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A push for family input to detect dementia earlier
(AP) -- Alexis McKenzie's mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife's sentences as they talked about puttering through the day and a drive to the store.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation
A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Mind reading machines on their way: IBM
Century-old technology colossus IBM depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Unique 'listening' technology tackles widespread fraud issues
Alaris, a joint venture startup company between ASU and Rolls-Royce, aims to tackle health care insurance fraud that is estimated to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $200 billion each year. This partnership was ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Complex sex life of goats could have implications for wildlife management
A new study of the mating habits of mountain goats reveals the vastly different strategies of males in different populations and could shed light on the unseen impacts of hunting.
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Human cells build protein cages to trap invading Shigella
In research on the never-ending war between pathogen and host, scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have discovered a novel defensive weapon, a cytoskeletal protein called septin, that humans cells deploy to cage ...
Dec 04, 2011 |
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STAR TRAK for December
Venus will be at its dazzling brightest as December begins, appearing in the southwestern sky after sunset. This beautiful "evening star" will set two hours after the sun on Dec. 1 and an hour later at month's end.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Europe switches to self-extinguishing cigarettes
It's lights out in Europe this weekend for old-style cigarettes that manufacturers haven't adapted to burn themselves out if left unattended.
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Precipitation variability in Northeast, Southwest linked in 1,000-year analysis
An analysis of precipitation data collected from a lakebed in New York and a Rhode Island estuary has provided a link between the variability of precipitation in the Northeast with that of the Southwest. The results validate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Scientists find evidence of Roman period megadrought
A new study at the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has revealed a previously unknown multi-decade drought period in the second century A.D. The findings give evidence that extended periods of aridity ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2011 |
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