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Scientists Discover Water Ice on Mercury: Ice and Organic Material May Have Been Carried to the Planet by Passing Comets
November 29, 2012 Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, revolves around the sun in a mere 88 days, making a tight orbit that keeps the planet incredibly toasty. Surface temperatures on ... > full story -
Human-Caused Climate Change Signal Emerges from the Noise
November 29, 2012 By comparing simulations from 20 different computer models to satellite observations, climate scientists have found that tropospheric and stratospheric temperature changes are clearly related to ... > full story -
Integrating Science and Policy to Address the Impacts of Air Pollution
November 29, 2012 New research examines how science and policy address air pollution effects on human health and ecosystems, and climate change in ... > full story -
New Approach Allows Past Data to Be Used to Improve Future Climate Projections
November 29, 2012 Climate scientists are still grappling with one of the main questions of modern times: how high will global temperatures rise if the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide doubles. Many ... > full story -
Short-Term Exposure to Essential Oils Lowers Blood Pressure and Heart Rate... but Only When Exposure Is Less Than One Hour
November 29, 2012 The scents which permeate our health spas from aromatic essential oils may provide more benefits than just a sense of rest and ... > full story -
Kerosene Lamps Identified as Big Source of Black Carbon
November 28, 2012 Kerosene lamps, the primary source of light for more than a billion people in developing nations, churns out black carbon at levels previously overlooked in greenhouse gas estimates, according to a ... > full story -
Mathematics Used to Identify Contamination in Water Distribution Networks
November 28, 2012 New research considers the identification of contaminants in a water distribution network as an optimal control problem within a networked ... > full story -
Autumn Sets in Rapidly on Saturn's Giant Moon
November 28, 2012 As leaves fall and winter approaches in Earth's Northern Hemisphere, a change of seasons is also rapidly becoming noticeable in the southern hemisphere of Saturn's giant moon, ... > full story -
New Approach to Support Future Climate Projections
November 28, 2012 Scientists have developed a new approach for evaluating past climate sensitivity data to help improve comparison with estimates of long-term climate projections developed by the Intergovernmental ... > full story -
Fracking in Michigan: Researchers Study Potential Impact on Health, Environment, Economy
November 28, 2012 University of Michigan researchers are conducting a detailed study of the potential environmental and societal effects of hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas drilling process known as ... > full story
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