Browse News Stories
51 to 60 of 6,720 stories
view headlines only
-
Storm Study Reveals a Sting in the Tail
May 1, 2013 Meteorologists have gained a better understanding of how storms like the one that battered Britain in 1987 develop, making them easier to ... > full story -
Exploring the Saltiness of the Ocean to Study Climate Change
April 30, 2013 Details are emerging from a recent research expedition to the Sub-Tropical North Atlantic. The objective of the expedition was to study the salt concentration (salinity) of the upper ocean. ... > full story -
First Snapshot of Organisms Eating Each Other: Feast Clue to Smell of Ancient Earth
April 29, 2013 Tiny 1,900-million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled ... > full story -
Dinosaur Predecessors Gain Ground in Wake of World's Biggest Biodiversity Crisis
April 29, 2013 Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after Earth's greatest mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs taking hold in Tanzania and Zambia in the ... > full storyMore: -
No Redoubt: Volcanic Eruption Forecasting Improved
April 29, 2013 Forecasting volcanic eruptions with success is heavily dependent on recognizing well-established patterns of pre-eruption unrest in the monitoring data. But in order to develop better monitoring ... > full story -
Climate Change Will Raise the Sea Level in the Gulf of Finland
April 29, 2013 The Finnish Meteorological Institute has updated its estimates concerning the impact of rising sea levels on the Finnish coast. Post-glacial rebound and changes in the Earth’s gravity field ... > full story -
NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves
April 26, 2013 A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific in the next few weeks to help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere ... > full story -
Earth's Center Is 1,000 Degrees Hotter Than Previously Thought, Synchrotron X-Ray Experiment Shows
April 25, 2013 The temperature near Earth's center is 6,000 degrees Celsius, 1,000 degrees more than given in an experiment 20 years ago. This experiment with synchrotron X-rays confirms geophysical models that ... > full story -
How Trees Play Role in Smog Production
April 25, 2013 After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers have shown exactly how trees help create one of society's predominant environmental and health concerns: air ... > full story -
Scientists Advocate a Simple, Affordable and Accurate Technology to Identify Threats from Sea-Level Rise
April 25, 2013 Researchers are calling for the global adoption of a method to identify areas that are vulnerable to sea-level rise. The method, which utilizes a simple, low-cost tool, is financially and technically ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,088

