Chinese earthquake provides lessons for future July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, now shows that topographic characteristics of the highly mountainous area identified the mountain range as active and could have ... | |
 Drought threatens drinking water for a million Australians July 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Up to a million people in Australia could face a shortage of drinking water if the country's drought continues, a report on the state of the nation's largest river system revealed Sunday. | |
 Beijing starts car ban in Olympics clean-air drive July 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Beijing residents enjoyed the novelty of congestion-free streets Sunday as the city launched strict driving curbs to rein its notorious air pollution and traffic for the Olympics. | |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground. | |
 Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ... | |
 3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the ... | |
 New indicator uncovered that can predict coral health July 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new indicator of coral health has been discovered in a community of microscopic single-celled algae called dinoflagellates. The study, released in the July 8th edition of the journal Proceedings of the ... | |
Saharan dust storms sustain life in Atlantic Ocean July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. | |
 California adopts new 'green' building code July 17, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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California on Thursday adopted a new building code aimed at improving energy efficiency and water consumption in all new construction projects across the state. | |
 Iceberg Scour Affects Biodiversity July 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is ... | |
Measures to help species cope with climate change? July 17, 2008 | User rating: 1.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Many species must move to new areas to survive climate change. Often, this seems impossible. Species stranded on mountain tops in southern Europe that are becoming too hot for them, for instance, are unlikely to be able ... | |
 Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere. | |
 A single boulder may prove that Antarctica and North America were once connected July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North ... | |
Scientists demonstrate the sharpest measurement of ice crystals in clouds July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Scientists have created an instrument designed to help determine the shapes and sizes of tiny ice crystals typical of those found in high-altitude clouds, down to the micron level (comparable to the tiniest cells in the human ... | |
 Scientists: $200M loss from Great Lakes invasives July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Foreign species that slipped into the Great Lakes in ballast tanks of oceangoing cargo ships cost the regional economy at least $200 million a year, according to a University of Notre Dame study released ... | |
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