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Water monitor eyes farm runoff in Gulf of Mexico (AP)

Water monitor eyes farm runoff in Gulf of Mexico

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A clean water expert at Auburn University hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico.





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The high speed train named Sapsan moves along the tracks at a station in Saint-Petersburg

Russian railways enter modern age with new express

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Famed for the legendary trains that clank across seven time zones on its Trans-Siberian railroad, Russia this week entered the modern railway age with its first high-tech express train.


How water forms where Earth-like planets are born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that helps to explain the origins of water on Earth, University of Michigan astronomers have found that water vapor can form spontaneously in habitable zones of solar systems, and that it develops ...


Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In this year's myriad discussions of stimulus and jobs programs, no one has yet publicly raised the idea to ask Santa Claus to take Christmas Eve off. Outsourcing his job by asking mere mortals to deliver ...


Smart phones are making Wi-Fi hotspots hot again

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lisa Helminiak, who uses her iPhone as a computer as much as to talk, has declared her independence from the slow cell phone network. Instead of using AT&T's network, she's using her phone's Wi-Fi capability to connect to ...


Proximity to convenience stores fosters child obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian study presented at the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in Lyon, France. The ongoing ...


Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker ...


Further spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda likely due to livestock movements

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The northwards spread of human Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda is likely due to the movement of infected livestock, according to new findings from an interdisciplinary research group including members from the Centre ...


Species distribution models are of only limited value for predicting future mammal distributions

Species distribution models are of only limited value for predicting future mammal distributions

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Species distribution models are of only limited use in predicting the future distribution of mammals. This is the finding of a study of the climate niches of 140 indigenous European mammals.


Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (48) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...


Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

A new study may explain why the England soccer team keeps losing in penalty shootouts - and could help the team address the problem in time for the World Cup 2010. Research by the University of Exeter shows ...



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