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New integrated building model may improve fish farming operations

Today's "locavore" movement with its emphasis on eating more locally-produced food is a natural fit for fruits and vegetables in nearly every region, but few entrepreneurs have dared to apply the concept to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Man who warned of Challenger disaster dies at 73

The man who warned his employer of the equipment quirk that led to the deadly explosion of the space shuttle Challenger has died. Roger Boisjoly was 73.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Are European kids getting enough vitamin D? Winter weather reopens the debate

The cold snap has well and truly set in across much of Europe, and as temperatures fall, watching our health becomes increasingly more crucial. Keeping our vitamin D levels up during the winter months has long been lauded ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Heat and cold damage corals in their own ways, study shows

Around the world coral reefs are facing threats brought by climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures. While ocean warming has been the primary focus for scientists and ocean policy managers, cold events can also ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yellow-cedar are dying in Alaska: Scientists now know why

Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New study shows correlation between summer Arctic sea ice cover and winter weather in Central Europe

Even if the current weather situation may seem to speak against it, the probability of cold winters with much snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in summer. Scientists of the Research Unit ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Hot molecule explains cold chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprisingly, hydrogen cyanide and its far more energetic isomer, hydrogen isocyanide, are present in almost equal amounts in cold interstellar gas clouds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

GOES-13 satellite sees 'giant white spike' of clouds bringing U.S. severe weather

(PhysOrg.com) -- Severe weather is expected to impact the southeastern U.S. today, and the GOES-13 satellite captured an image of a line of clouds associated with the strong cold front that looks like a giant ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA infrared satellite instrument sees tropical storm Iggy growing in strength

The AIRS infrared instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite has been providing forecasters with the cloud top temperatures in the Southern Indian Ocean's ninth tropical cyclone, which has officially been ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Britain ranks top risks posed by climate change

(AP) -- Britain says coastlines, wildlife and even the nation's most famous dish are under threat from climate change in its first-ever national assessment of likely risks.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Elusive matter found to be abundant far above Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cold plasma has been well-hidden. Space physicists have long lacked clues to how much of this electrically charged gas exists tens of thousands of miles above Earth and how the stuff may impact our planet's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage

Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study tests new treatments for the winter blues

If winter's long nights and cold weather have you feeling depressed, a new research study could lift your spirits. The study, lead by Janis Anderson, PH.D., an associate psychologist in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Low temperatures enhance ozone degradation above the Arctic

Extraordinarily cold temperatures in the winter of 2010/2011 caused the most massive destruction of the ozone layer above the Arctic so far: The mechanisms leading to the first ozone hole above the North Pole ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures

Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast