News tagged with severe storms


Floods to become commonplace by 2080

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (16) | comments 11

Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.


NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming

NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists ...





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Scientists successfully reprogram blood cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers have transplanted genetically modified hematopoietic stem cells into mice so that their developing red blood cells produce a critical lysosomal enzyme -preventing or reducing organ and central nervous system damage ...


NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies

NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People love to get the big picture of hurricane alleys, and thanks to the GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., they can now get real-time satellite animations of the eastern ...


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NASA on crusade to debunk 2012 apocalypse myths

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie.


Connection between depression and osteoporosis detailed

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Research carried out among thousands of people has shown a clear connection between depression and a loss of bone mass, leading to osteoporosis and fractures.


Women with asthma feel worse

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Women with asthma are more anxious, find it harder to sleep and are more tired during the day than their male counterparts, but nevertheless tend to be better at following their treatment, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska ...


Study shows that some malignant tumors can be shut down after all

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Oncologists have had their hands tied because more than half of all human cancers have mutations that disable a protein called p53. As a critical anti-cancer watchdog, p53 masterminds several cancer-fighting operations within ...


Lawmaker wants probe of E. coli and school lunches

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.


Developmental delay could stem from nicotinic receptor deletion

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The loss of a gene through deletion of genetic material on chromosome 15 is associated with significant abnormalities in learning and behavior, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in a report ...


Higher carotid arterial stenting rates associated with poorer clinical outcomes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Among eligible Medicare beneficiaries, increased use of carotid arterial stenting (CAS) procedures to treat carotid stenosis--the narrowing of the carotid artery--is associated with higher rates of mortality and adverse clinical ...


Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease

Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of ...



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