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Probing Question: Can humans control the weather?

Probing Question: Can humans control the weather?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Chinese officials claimed they prevented rain on the first day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by launching rockets into the rain clouds the night before. Emeritus professor of meteorology Charles L. Hosler asserts ...





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WISE Launch Delayed 24 Hours

WISE Launch Delayed 24 Hours

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Liftoff of a Delta II rocket and its NASA payload, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has been delayed 24 hours. At the soonest, launch now will be Saturday, Dec. 12, during a ...


Invasive Species on the March: Variable Rates of Spread Set Current Limits to Predictability

Invasive Species on the March: Variable Rates of Spread Set Current Limits to Predictability

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether for introduced muskrats in Europe or oak trees in the United Kingdom, zebra mussels in United States lakes or agricultural pests around the world, scientists have tried to find new ...


Astrophysicists find fractal image of Sun's 'Storm Season' imprinted on Solar Wind

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 24, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Plasma astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found that key information about the Sun’s 'storm season’ is being broadcast across the solar system in a fractal snapshot imprinted in the solar wind. This research ...


Germany unveiled a supercomputer which should be in a position to model even tornados

Germany unveils world's largest weather supercomputer

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Germany Thursday unveiled the world's most powerful weather supercomputer that scientists hope will provide critical data on global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).


Midge-hunting scientists tackle spread of devastating bluetongue virus

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the BBSRC-funded Institute for Animal Health (IAH) are stepping up the battle against the devastating and economically damaging bluetongue virus. By combining ingenious ways to trap and monitor midges with ...


Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought (AP)

Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.


Scientists may have solved an ecological riddle

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

In a paper published this week in Nature, the authors – including Dr Ying Ping Wang from The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research – say that nitrogen fixation has long been recognised as an important proces ...


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Taiwan hit by 6.4-magnitude quake: USGS

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit off eastern Taiwan on Saturday evening, the US Geological Survey said, the biggest tremor to rock the island this year.


Unseasonably hot and dry weather combined with strong winds to fan scores of blazes in the country's southeastern states

Australia issues 'catastrophic' alerts as fires rage

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday.


NRL Sensor Observes First Light

NRL Sensor Observes First Light

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division, launched October 18, 2009 on the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite ...



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