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  Space Physicists and Atmospheric Scientists Can Now Predict Disruptions Caused by the Sun's Coronal Mass Ejections

  Solar activity can wreak havoc in communications systems -- particularly during coronal mass ejections, when plumes of electrically charged particles hit earth's atmosphere. Scientists can now track ... > more
• Asthma
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  Environmental Toxicologists Link Household Bacteria to Asthma

  Scientists have found that chemicals called endotoxins can inflame airways and trigger asthma. Endotoxins are shed by bacteria in household dust. Experts say better home hygiene, washing bed linens ... > more
• Air Quality
  Air Pollution
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  Electronics
   
  

  Electrical Engineers Develop Microplasma Device to Detect Toxins

  Electrical engineers have developed a new, portable lab that identifies chemicals by their unique color signatures. It is the first such device to be portable, allowing scientists to recognize ... > more
• Weather
  Severe Weather
  Global Warming
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  Meteorologists See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events

  While raising average global temperatures, climate change could also bring more snow, harder rain, or heat waves, meteorologists say. Computer models based on climate data from nine countries ... > more
• Water
  Nature of Water
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  Environmental Engineers, Water Scientists Develop Children's Kit for Monitoring Water Health

  Playing a role once reserved for environmental engineers, children are now helping to test the health of water in their local communities. A new kit comes equipped with everything needed to test the ... > more
• Energy and the Environment
  Wind Energy
  Renewable Energy
  Environmental Science
  Energy and Resources
  Electricity
   
  

  Environmental Engineers Detect Turbines' Turbulence Effects

  Wind farms may have an impact on local weather patterns. As environmental engineers have discovered, wind farm propellers create a lot of turbulence in their wake, mixing air up and down with effects ... > more
• Geomagnetic Storms
  Atmosphere
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  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Physicist Calls for Airline Industry to Educate Workers about Radiation Levels

  At the high altitudes and latitudes commercial airlines fly, crews are subjected to higher-than-normal radiation levels from the sun and cosmic rays. Physicist Robert Barish believes airline crew ... > more
• Aviation
  Satellites
  Space Probes
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
  NASA
   
  

  Mechanical Engineering Students Develop High-Altitude Reconnaissance Airships

  On a shoestring, and with off-the-shelf components, students are designing prototypes of robotic blimp that could one day be used by the Pentagon. Cheaper than spy satellites, blimps can hover in ... > more
• Fish
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  Chemist Invents Fishing Line that Changes Color When Damaged

  Ropes and fishing lines made of a new plastic that changes color when damaged or heated can let climbers and fishermen know when it's time to get a replacement. Made of a polymer mixed with a dye, ... > more
• Weather
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  Meteorologists Can Now Issue Precise Local Excessive-Heat Warnings

  Heat kills more people than tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning and flash floods -- combined. The National Weather Service now gives heat-wave warnings to better forecast local conditions for 16 ... > more

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