News tagged with cold

New discoveries could improve climate projections

15 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.

Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages

Medicine & Health / Medications

19 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.

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Super cool atom thermometer

Physics / General Physics

Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised ...

Cyclone Cleo has reached its maximum wind speed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 09, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NASA Satellites noticed that Tropical Cyclone Cleo had reached its maximum strength, and was now moving into areas that will weaken it. Cleo's maximum sustained winds were near 115 mph (100 knots), with gusts ...

Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 07, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (6) | 0

A Japanese brewer has come up with a beer that's truly out of this world -- one made with barley grown from a line of seeds that once orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station.

Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that they have finalized the details of their planned search and advertising partnership

Microsoft, Yahoo take next step in search alliance

Technology / Internet

Dec 05, 2009 | 1 / 5 (5) | 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search market.

Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.

Expel chocolate milk from school lunches: activist

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Chocolate milk is "soda in drag" and should be booted out of US school cafeterias, a former celebrity chef turned school lunch lady has said.

Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(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 ...

NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 3

(AP) -- NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping ...

Elusive 'hot' electrons captured in ultra-thin solar cells

Physics / General Physics

20 hours ago | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 2

Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar ...