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Clues to Climate Cycles Dug from South Pole Snow Pit
February 25, 2013 Particles from the upper atmosphere trapped in a deep pile of Antarctic snow hold clear chemical traces of global meteorological events, climate scientists from France have found. Anomalies in oxygen ... > full story -
Macroweather Is What You Expect: Should There Be a Distinct Category Between Weather and Climate?
February 25, 2013 While short-term weather is notoriously volatile, climate is thought to represent a kind of average weather pattern over a long period. This dichotomy provides the analytical framework for scientific ... > full story -
Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP
February 25, 2013 Glow discharges in the upper atmosphere were generated to explore ionospheric phenomena and its impact on communications and space ... > full story -
Childhood Blood Lead Levels Rise and Fall With Exposure to Airborne Dust in Urban Areas
February 25, 2013 A new nine-year study of more than 367,000 children in Detroit supports the idea that a mysterious seasonal fluctuation in blood lead levels -- observed in urban areas throughout the United States ... > full story -
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
February 21, 2013 The sun and its prodigious stream of solar particles, called the solar wind, can be particularly tricky to model since as the material streams to the outer reaches of the solar system it carries ... > full story -
Conserving Corals by Understanding Their Genes
February 21, 2013 In reef-building corals variations within genes involved in immunity and response to stress correlate to water temperature and clarity, finds a new study. This information could be used to conserve ... > full story -
Great Backyard Bird Count Goes Global, Shatters Records
February 21, 2013 Bird watchers from 101 countries made history in the first global Great Backyard Bird Count, Feb. 15 to 18. In the largest worldwide bird count ever, bird watchers set new records, counting more than ... > full story -
Common Swifts Make Mysterious Twilight Ascents
February 21, 2013 Common swifts climb to altitudes of up to 2.5 km both at dawn and dusk. This unexpected behavior was discovered by a ... > full story -
Self-Healing Protective Coating for Concrete
February 20, 2013 Scientists are reporting development of what they describe as the first self-healing protective coating for cracks in concrete, the world's most widely used building material. The material is both ... > full story -
Six Years in Space for THEMIS: Understanding the Magnetosphere Better Than Ever
February 20, 2013 On Earth, scientists can observe weather patterns, and more importantly can predict them, through the use of tens of thousands of weather observatories scattered around the globe. Up in the space ... > full story
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