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Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
NASA waits for dry weather to bring shuttle home
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA is waiting for a break in Florida's rainy weather so the space shuttle Atlantis can return home on schedule.
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Bad mood, better recall, researchers find
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 11, 2009 |
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People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.
Tuesday wettest day of week in Manchester, suggests new analysis
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuesday is the wettest day of the week, suggests new analysis of rainfall data for Manchester.
Probing Question: Can humans control the weather?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Chinese officials claimed they prevented rain on the first day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by launching rockets into the rain clouds the night before. Emeritus professor of meteorology Charles L. Hosler asserts ...
Canadians robbed of sunlight during fall
Dec 08, 2006 |
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Canadians feeling blue during the last three months shouldn't be surprised -- they were robbed of more than 100 hours of sunlight, climatologists said.
People's misperceptions cloud their understanding of rainy weather forecasts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If Mark Twain were alive today he might rephrase his frequently cited observation about everyone talking about the weather but not doing anything about it to say, "Everyone reads or watches ...
Dengue fever strikes Taiwan
Sep 14, 2006 |
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At least 163 people in Taiwan have come down with infectious dengue fever, adding to a growing epidemic made worse by rainy weather.
Under the weather: Early-life rainfall has lasting effect on Indonesian women
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new University of ...
Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...
Research suggests urban sprawl, wet falls and winter affect severe weather
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Previously rare big city storms - like a tornado Aug. 19 that downed trees and ripped off roofs in downtown Minneapolis and the powerful thunderstorms in New York City a day earlier - may ...
Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced'
Nov 01, 2009 |
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Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.
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