News tagged with flash floods
The flash before the flood
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Flash floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States, and because of their unpredictability they're the leading weather-related cause of death for Americans. They usually arrive with little or no warning, ...
Scientists test system to forecast flash floods along Colorado's front range
Jul 22, 2008 |
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People living near vulnerable creeks and rivers along Colorado's Front Range may soon get advance notice of potentially deadly floods, thanks to a new forecasting system being tested this summer by the National ...
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Hurricane Katrina: Phone home
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation.
Scientists prepare for large-scale glacial floods (w/ Video)
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Surging floods as powerful as the Amazon could hit parts of Europe within decades, according to new research.
Floods to become commonplace by 2080
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.
SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology
Oct 16, 2009 |
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SanDisk announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, ...
Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 22, 2008 |
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Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years.
Extreme weather monitoring boosted by space sensor
Jul 16, 2007 |
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The first soil moisture maps with a spatial resolution of one km are available online for the entire southern African subcontinent. As soil moisture plays an important role in the global water cycle, these maps, based on ...
Messenger RNA with FLASH
Oct 22, 2009 |
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A study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a key player in a molecular process essential for DNA replication within cells.
TRMM satellite mapped 'Ida the Low's' rainfall from space (w/ Video)
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as "TRMM" has the ability to measure rainfall from space, and assessed the heavy rainfall from last week's coastal low pressure area, formerly known ...
Learning from locusts: Study points toward new treatment for stroke and migraine
Jul 02, 2009 |
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A similarity in brain disturbance between insects and people suffering from migraines, stroke and epilepsy points the way toward new drug therapies to address these conditions.
New insight into predicting cholera epidemics in the Bengal Delta
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Cholera, an acute diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, has reemerged as a global killer. Outbreaks typically occur once a year in Africa and Latin America. But in Bangladesh the epidemics occur twice ...
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