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Researchers use satellites to measure inland floods

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Satellites that were designed to measure sea level over the world's oceans can serve a valuable purpose over land, a new study has found.





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Low-cost temperature sensors, tennis balls to monitor mountain snowpack

Low-cost temperature sensors, tennis balls to monitor mountain snowpack

Technology / Engineering

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fictional secret agent Angus MacGyver knew that tough situations demand ingenuity. Jessica Lundquist takes a similar approach to studying snowfall. The University of Washington assistant professor ...


The koala faces starvation as the nutritional quality of eucalyptus leaves declines, the report says

Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: study

Biology / Ecology

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Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate summit.


Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...


Gas improves blood flow and organ status during minimally invasive surgery

Medicine & Health / Research

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As good as laparoscopy is in preventing some of the stresses of open surgery on the body, it does have drawbacks, including reduced blood flow and organ dysfunction. Laparoscopy is a type of surgery in the abdomen done through ...


The world's highest efficiency energy conversion photovoltanic (solar panel) cell

Hi-tech, eco-friendly dream home takes shape in Japan

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On Tokyo Bay, at the edge of the largest urban sprawl on Earth, sits what may be an environmentalist's dream home.


26 operations, 13 kidneys: hope to few with little (AP)

26 operations, 13 kidneys: hope to few with little

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(AP) -- Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants ...


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Decades-old dioxins pollute river, divide US community

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The signs posted along Michigan's Tittabawassee River warning of dangerous dioxin levels don't really worry fisherman David Mitchell.


Lawmakers seek emergency steps to halt Asian carp (AP)

Lawmakers seek emergency steps to halt Asian carp

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.


Salazar calls for high flows into Colorado River

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is calling for more manmade floods to be released from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.


Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)

Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, the martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their ‘wow’ ...



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