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300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

Technology / Energy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...


On gravel roads, people drive at speed they are comfortable with, regardless of posted limit

On gravel roads, people drive at speed they are comfortable with, regardless of posted limit

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Kansas gravel roads have varying speed limits, but a study by Kansas State University researchers shows that instead of abiding by those limits, people are more likely to use their own judgment to gauge how ...


Study finds many motorists don't see need to heed speed limits

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 07, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 12

Research suggests U.S. motorists are growing increasingly cynical about the relevance of speed limits, and a new study indicates many motorists are more likely to think they can drive safely while speeding as long as they ...


Category 2 Hurricane Dolly Crosses South Padre Island, Texas

Category 2 Hurricane Dolly Crosses South Padre Island, Texas

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

At 12:00 p.m. CDT (1:00 p.m. EDT) Dolly's eye was located near latitude 26.2 north and longitude 97.0 west or about 35 miles northeast of Brownsville, Texas, and she was crossing South Padre Island.





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Bladder cancer risks increase over time for smokers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according ...


Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 10 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...


Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast

Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Satellite imagery and weather ground station readings today along the Mid-Atlantic indicate "Ida the coastal low pressure area" is finally moving away from the U.S. east coast.


Cyclone Phyan raining on Tibet after breaking a record in India

Cyclone Phyan raining on Tibet after breaking a record in India

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Cyclone Phyan broke a 43 year record when it made landfall north of the city of Mumbai, India during the evening hours on November 11. NASA's Aqua satellite captured Phyan's landfall with one instrument, and ...


Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the Mid-Atlantic

Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the Mid-Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The coastal low, formerly known as Ida, is currently quasi-stationary off the North Carolina coast, adding more rain on top of what it has already brought. The low is creating serious flooding from northeast ...


Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic

Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ida is one stubborn girl. Her remnants have moved out to sea and reformed as a powerful coastal low pressure system that's been raining on the mid-Atlantic since Tuesday night, November 10. The Geostationary ...


New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida

New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...


Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence

Experts offer strategies for working with immigrant victims of violence (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees ...


NASA sees high thunderstorms in newly formed Tropical Cyclone 4A near India

NASA sees high thunderstorms in newly formed Tropical Cyclone 4A near India

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tropical Cyclone 4A formed yesterday, November 10 off the western coast of India in the Arabian Sea, and NASA's infrared imagery captured some high, powerful thunderstorms developing in the storm's center.


GOES satellite sees bulk of Ida's clouds and rain inland while center making landfall

GOES satellite sees bulk of Ida's clouds and rain inland while center making landfall

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tropical Storm Ida made landfall around 6:40 a.m. ET this morning on Dauphin Island, along the Alabama coastline. NASA's GOES Project created the latest image from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ...



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