News tagged with high temperatures
Those dog days of August: 3 times the heat by 2050?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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If you are wilting under the summer heat, consider this: your child may one day think of summer 2009 as "back in the cool old days." To illustrate expected increases in extreme summer heat, scientists at ...
In the warming West, climate most significant factor in fanning wildfires' flames
Jun 26, 2009 |
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The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ...
A new approach to engineering for extreme environments (w/ Video)
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites ...
NIST finds 'a touch of glass' in metal, settles century-old question
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have recently found evidence of an ...
Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals (w/Animation)
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's ...
Seeing invisible resin
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When manufacturing chipboards, it is important to correctly distribute the resin on the wood shavings. Researchers are now developing a measuring technique that makes it possible to monitor the application ...
Charred meat may increase risk of pancreatic cancer
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Meat cooked at high temperatures to the point of burning and charring may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual Meeting 2009.
Increasing levels of rare element found worldwide
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Dartmouth researchers have determined that the presence of the rare element osmium is on the rise globally. They trace this increase to the consumption of refined platinum, the primary ingredient in catalytic converters, ...
Scorpion biodiversity
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Scorpions possess resistance to high temperatures and the ability to conserve water for long periods of time, and as a result thrive in hot and arid parts of the world. But is this global distribution also seen at a more ...
Helium rains inside Jovian planets
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look.
New method accelerates stability testing of soy-based biofuel
Jan 13, 2009 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method to accelerate stability testing of biodiesel fuel made from soybeans and also identified additives that enhance stability at high temperatures. ...
