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Deadly bird parasite evolves at exceptionally fast rate

A new study of a devastating bird disease that spread from poultry to house finches in the mid-1990s reveals that the bacteria responsible for the disease evolves at an exceptionally fast rate. What's more, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA's GCPEX mission: What we don't know about snow

Predicting the future is always a tricky business -- just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists make first-ever observations of comet's demise deep inside solar atmosphere

On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun. That the comet met its fate this way was no surprise – but the chance to watch ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

JPL radar treks to great white north to study snow

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory, including a unique airborne radar built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., above Canadian snowstorms to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA cold weather airborne campaign to measure falling snow

Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA studies vegetation canopy water content, soil moisture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists seeking insight into the role vegetation plays in water fluctuation between soil and the atmosphere recently conducted research using specialized sensors during a series of NASA ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Curiosity and the solar storm

On Nov. 26th, Curiosity blasted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas 5 rocket. Riding a plume of fire through the blue Florida sky, the car-sized rover began a nine month journey to search for signs of life ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Plasmonic device converts light into electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the most common device for converting light into electricity may be photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, a variety of other devices can perform the same light-to-electricity conversion, such ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Watching the birth of an iceberg

(PhysOrg.com) -- After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA's Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Probiotics effective in combating antibiotic-associated diarrhea

In four different studies presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington, DC, researchers explored the effectiveness of probiotics for antibiotic-associated diarrhea; ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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