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• Moon
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Jupiter
   
  

  Planetary Scientists Use Hubble to Spot Oxygen-Rich Soil on Moon

  The Moon's surface is covered with oxygen-rich soils, Hubble Space Telescope images show. Planetary scientists believe the oxygen could be tapped to power rockets and be a source of oxygen to breathe ... > more
• Water
  Nature of Water
  Pollution
  Environmental Issues
  Drought Research
  Ecosystems
   
  

  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
• Detectors
  Civil Engineering
  Earthquakes
  Tornadoes
  Construction
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Civil Engineers Develop Inexpensive System to Assess Damage after Natural Disasters

  A new wireless system assesses injury in a structure after it is hit by a natural disaster such as a hurricane. When a building shakes, sensors records the frequency of the movement. This data is ... > more
• Earthquakes
  Sustainability
  Sports Science
  Organic
  Soil Types
  Botany
   
  

  Entomologists Design Environmentally-Friendly Lawns, Golf Courses

  The PGA Golf course at San Francisco's Harding Park is an environmental model, using fewer pesticides than any other PGA course in the country. Taking a cue from entomologists and other scientists, ... > more
• Geomagnetic Storms
  Atmosphere
  Vitamin D
  Thermodynamics
  Today's Healthcare
  Aviation
   
  

  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
• Severe Weather
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Tornadoes
  Weather
  Storms
  Climate
   
  

  Using Radar, Meteorologists See Increase in Hurricane-Made Tornadoes

  Tornadoes can form when hurricanes make landfall, as their winds at ground level slow down, while the winds near the top keep their momentum. Data from 2004 show this tendency seems to have ... > more
• Earthquakes
  Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
  Earth Science
  Geography
  Global Warming
   
  

  Seismologists Build Global Listening Posts to Detect Quakes

  In the Global Seismographic Network, 138 networked stations can pick up quake movement and send instant information to computers around the world. The network has passed its first real-world test: ... > more

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