News tagged with velocity
Solving Teapot Effect
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from France have worked out why teapots dribble at low flow rates, and how to stop them. The effect is called the "teapot effect", and solving it could finally put an ...
Rosetta probe lined up nicely for Earth approach
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Following the first and primary trajectory correction manoeuvre 22 October, Rosetta is lined up nicely for the approach to Earth. The manoeuvre provided an 8.8 cm/s change in orbital velocity ...
Weather patterns help predict dengue fever outbreaks
Oct 26, 2009 |
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High temperatures, humidity and low wind speed are associated with high occurrence of dengue fever according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health.
NASA technology key component of new diagnostic aid from DynaDx
Oct 20, 2009 |
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NASA technology will now be available to the medical community to help in the diagnosis and prediction of syndromes that affect the brain, such as stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury.
Transit Search Finds Super-Neptune
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune ...
Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The best map of wind speeds on Jupiter ever produced proves that the massive weather system known as the Great Red Spot has shrunken over the past dozen years.
