News tagged with raindrops
How skin is wired for touch
Compared to our other senses, scientists don't know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch. Now, research reported in the December 23rd issue of the journal Cell provides the first picture of how specia ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Rainfall suspected culprit in leaf disease transmission
Rainfalls are suspected to trigger the spread of a multitude of foliar (leaf) diseases, which could be devastating for agriculture and forestry. Instead of focusing on the large-scale, ecological impact of this problem, researchers ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Mask-bot: A robot with a human face
Robotics researchers in Munich, Germany, have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Spider scientists creep up on elusive prey
The summer sun is in full force, yet these scavengers are clutching flashlights.
Aug 24, 2011 |
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The pirouette effect in the chaos of turbulence
(PhysOrg.com) -- The quick mixing of coffee and milk after stirring or the formation of raindrops in clouds: these are just two of many phenomena in which turbulent flows play a decisive role. Researchers ...
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Tornado forecasting pushes scientific limits
Ernest Fawbush and Robert Miller made the first ever tornado forecast in March of 1948 using only paper, pencil, and a World War II-era radar -- but tornado forecasting has changed dramatically since that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Ancient raindrops reveal a wave of mountains sent south by sinking Farallon plate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Analyzing the isotope ratios of ancient raindrops preserved in soils and lake sediments, Stanford researchers have shown that a wave of mountain building began in British Columbia, Canada ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Air pollution is reducing the amount of rain in China
Air pollution in eastern China during the last 50 years has led to a reduction in the amount of light rainfall of almost a quarter. This is revealed by an international study conducted with support from the University of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Raindrops keep falling on your head -- but they burst first
For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that raindrops start as micro-droplets that then gather together in clouds with their neighbours to become bigger droplets.
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Maybe it's raining less than we thought
It's conventional wisdom in atmospheric science circles: large raindrops fall faster than smaller drops, because they're bigger and heavier. And no raindrop can fall faster than its "terminal speed"—its speed when the downward ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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