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This handout photo courtesy of Catlin Arctic Survey shows British explorers Pen Hadow and Ann Davis in northern Canada

Resupplied North Pole explorers resume trek

Mar 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (35) | 0

Three British explorers fighting to survive a gruelling trek to the North Pole finally resumed their journey Friday after receiving vital supplies of food, fuel and equipment, organizers said.

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Tropical Cyclone Laurence menaces Northern Australia

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

6 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Laurence is still a tropical cyclone even though the storm has made landfall in northern West Australia and is moving over land. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite noticed some powerful ...

Ecosystem, vegetation affect intensity of urban heat island effect

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

NASA researchers studying urban landscapes have found that the intensity of the "heat island" created by a city depends on the ecosystem it replaced and on the regional climate. Urban areas developed in arid and semi-arid ...

Soup can reopens mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition

Other Sciences / Other

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lead levels that are "off the scale" have been confirmed after tests were done this morning on the lid of a soup can dating back more than 150 years. The findings reopen the mystery surrounding ...

Laurence made landfall in Western Australia

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Tropical Cyclone Laurence made landfall in Northwestern Australia this morning (Eastern Time) December 15, 2009. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Laurence just before the center of the storm ...

Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver ...

Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 15, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 1

The Sirt1 enzyme in the body has generated enormous attention as a possible secret to living longer. Some scientists believe that fasting and drinking wine appear to aid in this quest because both likely activate ...

Tropical Cyclone Mick forms quickly, hits Fiji in the southwestern Pacific

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Tropical Cyclone Mick formed over the weekend in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and made a quick landfall over Fiji's main island of Viti Levu earlier today, December 14. Mick made landfall as a Category ...

Ending the cycle of poverty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many academically talented high-school students in Providence, Rhode Island, are figuring out what outfit to wear to school on a particular day, other top grade-earners are busily getting ...

Sucker-footed bats don't use suction after all (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

There are approximately 1,200 species of bats worldwide. Of that total, only six are known to roost with their heads pointed upward. Investigators did not know why, because they knew next to nothing about ...