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Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
August 15, 2012 — NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel Mission, or HS3, will be studying hurricanes at the end of the summer, and there will be two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different ... > full story -
Designing Tiny Molecules That Glow in Water to Shed Light on Biological Processes
August 15, 2012 — Scientists have developed a way to switch fluorescent molecules on and off within aqueous environments, by strategically trapping the molecules inside water-soluble particles and controlling them ... > full story -
Behaviors of the Tiniest Water Droplets Revealed
August 15, 2012 — A new study has uncovered fundamental details about the hexamer structures that make up the tiniest droplets of water, the key component of life -- and one that scientists still don't fully ... > full story -
Greenland Melting Breaks Record Four Weeks Before Season's End
August 15, 2012 — Melting over the Greenland ice sheet shattered the seasonal record on Aug. 8 -- a full four weeks before the close of the melting season, researchers ... > full story -
How Do They Do It? Predictions Are in for Arctic Sea Ice Low Point
August 14, 2012 — Each year scientists predict the low point of Arctic Sea ice. The final predictions were released Aug. 13. But how do they do it? Researchers used some new techniques this year in hopes of improving ... > full story -
Fish Are Warmer, Faster, Stronger: Unexpected Benefits of Living in a Changing Climate, Biologists Find
August 14, 2012 — Biologists suggest that growing up at warmer temperatures helps some aquatic animals cope with climate change, raising questions about the limits of adaptation. They found that when embryos raised in ... > full story -
New Book Explores 'Noah's Flood': Says Bible and Science Can Get Along
August 14, 2012 — A geologist, is the author of a new book that explores the long history of religious thinking on matters of geological discovery, particularly flood stories such as the biblical account of Noah's ... > full story -
Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter
August 14, 2012 — Scientists have observed first glimpses of a possible boundary separating ordinary nuclear matter, composed of protons and neutrons, from the seething soup of their constituent quarks and gluons that ... > full story -
Fresh Water Breathes Fresh Life Into Hurricanes
August 13, 2012 — An analysis of a decade's worth of tropical cyclones shows that when hurricanes blow over ocean regions swamped by fresh water, the conditions can unexpectedly intensify the storm. Although the ... > full story -
Summer Storm Spins Over Arctic
August 10, 2012 — An unusually strong storm formed off the coast of Alaska on August 5 and tracked into the center of the Arctic Ocean, where it slowly dissipated over the next several days. Arctic storms such as this ... > full story
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