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Climate Change and Wildfire
May 21, 2013 — Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire. Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing climate, over 100 percent in areas of ... > full story -
Allosaurus Fed More Like a Falcon Than a Crocodile: Engineering, Anatomy Work Reveals Differences in Dinosaur Feeding Styles
May 21, 2013 — The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more dexterous hunter and tugged at prey more ... > full story -
NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons
May 21, 2013 — In Antarctica in January, 2013 -- the summer at the South Pole -- scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the ... > full story -
NASA's IRIS Mission Readies for a New Challenge
May 21, 2013 — NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar ... > full story -
Cancer and Birth Defects in Iraq: The Nuclear Legacy
May 21, 2013 — Ten years after the Iraq war of 2003 a team of scientists based in Mosul, northern Iraq, have detected high levels of uranium contamination in soil samples at three sites in the province of Nineveh ... > full story -
A Tiny Programmable Fly's Eye
May 21, 2013 — A novel curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) has been created. Compared to single-lens eyes, compound eyes offer lower resolution, but significantly larger fields of view, thin package, and with ... > full story -
Asthma Symptoms Impair Sleep Quality and School Performance in Children
May 21, 2013 — The negative effects of poorly controlled asthma symptoms on sleep quality and academic performance in urban schoolchildren has been confirmed in a new ... > full story -
Early-Life Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure Linked to Hyperactivity
May 21, 2013 — Early-life exposure to traffic-related air pollution was significantly associated with higher hyperactivity scores at age 7, according to new ... > full story -
New NOAA Report Examines National Oil Pollution Threat from Shipwrecks
May 20, 2013 — NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation's coastal marine resources. ... > full story -
The Mammoth's Lament: How Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change
May 20, 2013 — Researchers have found evidence of a major cosmic event near the end of the Ice Age. The ensuing climate change forced many species to adapt or ... > full story
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