Posts Tagged ‘temperature’
Top Stories - Dec 9, 2011 11:26 - 7 Comments
Snowflake science: Why so thin and flat?
CALTECH (US) — New research from “snowflake guru” Kenneth Libbrecht sheds light on the mystery of why “stellar” snowflakes wind up so thin and flat. (more…)
Top Stories - Nov 10, 2011 10:54 - 0 Comments
Apply heat. Watch materials shrink
CALTECH (US) — Most materials expand when heated, but a few actually contract. Now engineers have figured out how one of these curious materials does the trick. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 1, 2011 12:04 - 1 Comment
Trees lag behind climate change
DUKE (US) — More than half of eastern US tree species examined in a massive new study aren’t adapting to climate change as quickly or consistently as predicted. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 24, 2011 10:02 - 3 Comments
No real warming from urban ‘heat island’
STANFORD (US) — The urban ‘heat island’ effect contributes less than 5 percent to overall global warming, far less than greenhouse gas or black carbon, new research shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 8, 2011 15:47 - 0 Comments
Crystal takes temperatures to extremes
U. WARWICK (UK) — Researchers have developed a form of crystal that can deliver highly accurate temperature readings, ranging from -120 to +680 degrees centigrade. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 13, 2011 13:27 - 1 Comment
Reset plants’ clock to wintertime
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — A circadian clock helps plants know when it’s time to kick their tolerance to freezing temperatures into high gear. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 8, 2010 12:16 - 1 Comment
Heat helped hasten life’s beginnings
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US) — The time required for evolution on a warm earth is shorter than previously thought, according to new research investigating the effect of temperature on extremely slow chemical reactions. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 18, 2010 13:57 - 0 Comments
When do newborns first feel cold?
USC (US)—Cold sensing neural circuits in newborn mice take around two weeks to become fully active, according to a new study. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 4, 2010 10:58 - 0 Comments
Early haze likely shaded Earth from UV
U. COLORADO (US)—A thick organic haze that enshrouded early Earth several billion years ago may have been similar to the haze now hovering above Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and would have protected primordial life on the planet from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 10, 2010 14:21 - 0 Comments
English summers heating up earlier
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—The onset of summer-like temperatures in England has been advancing since the mid 1950s, a new study shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 8, 2010 13:18 - 0 Comments
Mega-tsunamis stoke up solar atmosphere
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—Physicists from the University of Sheffield are scheduled to reveal their recent discovery of transition region quakes on the Sun. The finding could shed light on solar mega-tsunamis. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 12, 2010 12:07 - 4 Comments
Track climate change with tennis balls
U. WASHINGTON—Measuring snowmelt is as easy—and economical—as launching a tennis ball into a tree. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 15, 2009 16:39 - 0 Comments
‘Triple whammy’ takes toll on Arctic erosion
U. COLORADO (US)—The combined effect of declining sea ice, warming seawater, and increased wave activity is causing the northern coastline of Alaska to erode by up to one-third the length of a football field each year. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 24, 2009 18:12 - 12 Comments
Slow CO2 absorption may speed climate change
YALE (US)—The world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide, which could mean an acceleration in the pace of climate change, according to a new study. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 23, 2009 17:58 - 5 Comments
Rising temps likely to flare African conflict
UC BERKELEY/STANFORD/NYU (US)—Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by more than 50 percent within the next two decades. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 5, 2009 12:01 - 0 Comments
Model suggests it’s raining rocks on exoplanet
WASHINGTON-ST. LOUIS (US)—An exoplanet discovered last February by the COROT space telescope is close enough to its star that its “day-face” is hot enough to melt rock. Theoretical models suggest the planet has a gaseous-rock atmosphere and boiling oceans on its surface. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 31, 2009 11:06 - 0 Comments
Dancing with high-temp superconductors
CORNELL (US)—High-temperature superconductors may have the potential to go even higher, according to new measurements. The finding opens the door to creating room-temperature superconductors, or at least those that will work with conventional refrigeration. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 17, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
Harbinger of hurricanes to come
PENN STATE (US)—In an effort to foresee future hurricane activity, a team of scientists looked to the past and reconstructed 1,500 years of hurricanes using two independent methods. (more…)
