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  Nervous System For Airplanes, Bridges And Other Structures Should Improve Safety

  April 11, 2008 — Technical structures may soon have their own nervous system. Developers and users expect this to bring greater safety, maintenance activities only when required, and a more efficient use of material ... > full story
• Severe Weather
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  How Strong Is That Hurricane? Just Listen

  April 10, 2008 — Knowing how powerful a hurricane is, before it hits land, can help to save lives or to avoid the enormous costs of an unnecessary evacuation. So far, there's only one surefire way of measuring the ... > full story
• Sun
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  Source Of Solar Wind Discovered

  April 2, 2008 — Scientists have found the source of the stream of particles that make up the solar wind. The solar wind consists of electrically charged particles that flow out from the Sun in all ... > full story
• Wind Energy
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  NIST Evaluates Firefighting Tactics In NYC High-Rise Test

  March 18, 2008 — NIST fire protection engineers turned an abandoned New York City brick high-rise into a seven-story fire laboratory last month to better understand the fast-moving spread of wind-driven flames, smoke ... > full story
• Wind Energy
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  Measuring The Wind To Optimize For Wind Energy

  March 6, 2008 — Wind energy is currently regarded as the most important source of renewable energy. The optimal operation of the newest generation of large wind turbines is possible through the reliable measurement ... > full story
• Aviation
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  Hovering Bats Stay Aloft Using Swirling Vortices

  February 29, 2008 — Honey bees and hummingbirds can hover like helicopters for minutes at a time, sucking the juice from their favorite blossoms while staying aloft in a swirl of vortices. But the unsteady air flows ... > full story
• Water
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  Windmill With A Twist Can Provide Fresh Water From Seawater Directly

  February 29, 2008 — A traditional windmill which drives a pump: that is the simple concept behind the combination of windmill/reverse osmosis process for seawater desalination. In this case, it involves a high-pressure ... > full story
• Stars
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  Rare Massive Star, Eta Carinae, Produces Vast Winds Of Colliding Electrically-Charged Particles

  February 21, 2008 — ESA's Integral has made the first unambiguous discovery of high-energy X-rays coming from a rare massive star at our cosmic doorstep, Eta Carinae. It is one of the most violent places in the galaxy, ... > full story
• Global Warming
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  Wind Patterns Could Mask Effects Of Global Warming In Ocean

  February 7, 2008 — Natural variability in the Earth's atmosphere could be masking the overall effect of global warming in the North Atlantic Ocean. Scientists have previously found that surface temperatures around the ... > full story
• Fish
  Marine Biology
  Nature
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  Wind May Be The Driving Force Behind Fish Booms And Busts

  February 5, 2008 — Scientists have now shed light on the puzzle by proposing a plausible mechanism behind the mystery of fish booms and busts: wind. They propose that atmospheric wind forces can determine the ... > full story

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