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• Computer Science
  Artificial Intelligence
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  Elder Care
   
  

  Computer Scientists Create New Technology For Elderly Home Owners

  Computer scientists have designed technologies to help the elderly maintain their independence. One device uses optical sensors to oversee people as they pick up and use items. Another device uses ... > more
• Wildfires
  Natural Disasters
  Forest
  Sustainability
  Earthquakes
  Desert
   
  

  Geographers Map Likeliest Places For Big Fires

  Foresters and geographers have mapped the locations in the Santa Monica mountains where the most destructive fires are likely to start. To make their map, they combined data about where fires were ... > more
• Climate
  Global Warming
  Environmental Issues
  Weather
  Ice Ages
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Climatologists Forecast Completely New Climates

  Geographers have projected temperature increases due to greenhouse gas emissions to reach a not-so-chilling conclusion: climate zones will shift and some climates will disappear completely by 2100. ... > more
• Air Quality
  Forest
  Global Warming
  Air Pollution
  Nature
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide

  A physicist from Colorado State University and his colleagues from the North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned and confirmed the unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels. ... > more
• Trees
  Forest
  Environmental Issues
  Botany
  Air Quality
  Global Warming
   
  

  Environmental Scientists Find Tree Combo For Carbon Sequestration

  A research team found 31 hardy trees that sequester carbon efficiently for the New York region, mitigating against the impacts of high deforestation and carbon release into the atmosphere in that ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Weather
  Atmosphere
  Climate
  Geography
   
  

  Atmospheric Scientists And Meteorologists Use Driftsondes For Hurricane Forecasts

  For decades, meteorologists have launched balloons to measure and track weather patterns. Now, these balloons are helping tropical forecasters better pinpoint the motion and severity of forming ... > more
• Water
  Fish
  Drought Research
  Pollution
  Drought
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Environmental Scientists Use Fish Behavior To Monitor Water Quality

  Researchers are using bluegills to detect industrial and agricultural spills in water supplies. Changes in the environment cause the fishes' behavior and breathing patterns to change. Electrodes are ... > more
• Geography
  Severe Weather
  Storms
  Weather
  Climate
  Global Warming
   
  

  Climatologists, Oceanographers Track Climate-changing Ocean Pattern

  Researchers are using satellites in efforts to better predict El Niño, the weather pattern responsible for supplying more moisture and energy to storms in the U.S. during the winter season. El ... > more
• Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Energy Technology
  Petroleum
  Environmental Science
  Extreme Survival
   
  

  Biological Engineers Generate Natural Gas with Bacteria

  A new kind of waste digester uses two different strains of bacteria in different tanks. This would normally take place in the same environment, but microbiologists have now separated it into two ... > more
• Oceanography
  Global Warming
  Nature of Water
  Water
  Energy Technology
  Spintronics
   
  

  Oceanographers Uncover The Physics Of Rip Currents

  Rip currents flow in very erratic patterns, not in steady courses as previously believed -- which may help explain why they can be so dangerous even for experienced swimmers. Oceanographers have ... > more

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