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Measuring snow with a bucket, a windmill, and the sun?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In Maine, government scientists have figured out how to measure snowfall in remote areas with a bucket, a small windmill, and the sun - all the while saving money, energy, and, ultimately helping to save lives.





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Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little ...


Whiskers hold secrets of invasive minks

Biology / Ecology

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Details of the lifestyle of mink, which escaped from fur farms and now live wild in the UK, have been revealed through analysis of their whiskers. Research led by the University of Exeter reveals more about the diet of this ...


Tracing the traces: Nanogram concentrations of a toxic compound detected in chlorinated tap water

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking water can transmit a number of diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea, which can then spread explosively throughout an entire service area. To avoid this problem, drinking ...


Student-Made 'Sustain-a-Bear' Puts Green Spin on Timeless Toy

Student-Made 'Sustain-a-Bear' Puts Green Spin on Timeless Toy

Technology / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Most teddy bears, regretfully, face a lonesome retirement once their owners grow up or move on.


Shallow Origins

Shallow Origins

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

In finding answers to the mystery of the origin of life, scientists may not have to dig too deep. New research is shedding light on shallower waters as a possible location for where life on Earth began.


Seeing how evolutionary mechanisms yield biological diversity

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international team of scientists has discovered how changes in both gene expression and gene sequence led to the diversity of visual systems in African cichlid fish.


Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

Novel nanotechnology heals abscesses caused by resistant staph bacteria

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a new approach for treating and healing skin abscesses caused by bacteria resistant to most antibiotics. The study ...


Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic ridges contouring the surface of flower petals might play a role in flashing that come-hither look pollinating insects can't resist. Michigan State University scientists and colleagues ...


Feds mull regulating drugs in water

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some ...


New, virulent strain of MRSA poses renewed antibiotic resistance concerns

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The often feared and sometimes deadly infections caused by MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - are now moving out of hospitals and emerging as an even more virulent strain in community settings and on ath ...



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