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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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The quake was at a depth of 44.6 kilometres (27.7 miles)

Taiwan hit by 6.4-magnitude quake: USGS

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit off eastern Taiwan on Saturday evening, the US Geological Survey said, the biggest tremor to rock the island this year.


Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required

Best (Meteor) Shower of 2009 - No Towel Required

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bundle up and get ready to watch a fiery lightshow stirred up by dead comets in Earth's upper atmosphere during the cold of winter in the dead of night. The annual Geminid meteor shower is ...


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Microsoft search engine Bing suffers brief outage

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing.


Feeding the clock

Feeding the clock: Cycles of feeding and fasting drive circadian gene expression in the liver

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands ...


Japanese car wins World Solar Challenge in Australia

Japanese car wins World Solar Challenge in Australia (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

A Japanese sun-powered car won the World Solar Challenge on Wednesday after averaging speeds of more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) per hour in a four-day race through Australia's desert Outback.


An Indian villager is seen reading a newspaper with the aid of a solar powered lamp

Solar lantern lights up rural India's dark nights

Technology / Energy

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.


New Cellular Therapy for HIV in World's First Engineered T Cell Receptor Trial

New Cellular Therapy for HIV in World's First Engineered T Cell Receptor Trial

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Adaptimmune Limited and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, today announced the approval of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the US Food and ...


A cow is covered with ash of the Chilean Chaiten volcano near the border town of Los Cipreses

Chilean eruption highlights risk from 'rhyolitic' volcanoes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Magma from a Chilean volcano shot through Earth's crust at around a metre (3.25 feet) per second, a speed highlighting the perils from so-called rhyolitic volcanoes, scientists reported on Wednesday.


How should mental, neurological and substance use disorders be treated where resources are scarce?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Over 90% of people with mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders in low and middle income countries go untreated, an inequity known as the mental health "treatment gap." This week PLoS Medicine kicks off a ...


Next season on the box? Cheap and light TV

Next season on the box? Cheap and light TV

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cash-strapped couch potatoes forced to stay in thanks to the global economic crisis next season will be dished up platters of light low-cost entertainment as TV networks chase rare advertising revenue.



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