News tagged with ground
Lawmaker wants probe of E. coli and school lunches
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
'Green Clean:' Researchers Determining Natural Ways To Clean Contaminated Soil
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University are working to demonstrate that trees can be used to degrade or capture fuels that leak into soil and ground water. Through a process called ...
Tropical storms endure over wet land, fizzle over dry
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If it has already rained, it's going to continue to pour, according to a Purdue University study of how ocean-origin storms behave when they come ashore.
Ground beetles produce lemon/orange-scented aromas as predator repellents
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper to appear in the journal “Naturwissenschaften,” Stevens Institute of Technology Professor Athula Attygalle and his research student, Xiaogang Wu, report for the first time that some ground beetles ...
Heat-Transfer Material Could Allow More Powerful Radar Electronics
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Open any computer and you're sure to see at least one massive cooling device, complete with metal fins and a noisy fan. Today's high-power processing chips generate lots of heat -- and those ...
Critics: Burial site for Hudson PCBs is inadequate
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York's "pay toilet."
Predicted ground motions for great earthquake in Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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A new study evaluates expected ground motion in Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver from earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 - 9.0, providing engineers and policymakers with a new tool to build or retrofit structures to withstand seismic ...
13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and ...
Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation
Feb 23, 2009 |
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The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported ...
Animals successfully re-learn smell of kin after hibernation
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Animals can re-establish their use of smell to detect siblings, even following an interruption such as prolonged hibernation, research at the University of Chicago on ground squirrels shows.
A year after Microsoft buyout offer made, Yahoo struggles to define itself
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Soon after he was named chief executive of Yahoo, Jerry Yang turned to Steve Jobs for advice.
Satellites search out South Pole snowfields
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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As skiers across the world pay close attention to the state of the snow on the slopes, there are a different group of scientific snow-watchers looking closely at a South Pole snowfield this January.
Gibbon feet provide model for early human walking
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that early humans could have walked successfully on a 'flexible' flat foot, similar to modern day gibbons.
76 percent of American middle-class households not financially secure
Nov 24, 2008 |
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As the economy continues to reel, a new report finds that 4 million American households lost economic security between 2000 and 2006, and that a majority of America's middle class households are either borderline or at high ...
Population growth puts dent in natural resources
Oct 08, 2008 |
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It's a 500-pound gorilla that Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, sees standing on the speaker's dais at political rallies, debates and ...
