3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of Quake Sites
Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape, and it’s giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team of...
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Infrared Sounder on NASA’s Suomi NPP Starts its Mission
A powerful new infrared instrument, flying on NASA’s newest polar-orbiting satellite, designed to give scientists more refined information about Earth’s atmosphere and improve weather forecasts and our understanding of climate, has started sending its...
Of orbits and ice ages, Axis Tilt
Though it was first suggested well over a century ago, the hypothesis that changes in Earth’s orientation relative to its orbit influence the growth and decline of ice sheets was only recently tested. As...
Google’s HUD glasses have been sighted
The prototype for Google’s HUD glasses has been seen, according to tech news site 9to5Google. And, supposedly they resemble Oakley’s Thump glasses, which makes them look a lot like something the Terminator might wear....
Chile blames wildfires for rats spreading hantavirus
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile declared a public health alert Monday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others. Health Minister Jaime Manalich said wildfires in the southern...
Russian scientists reach buried Antarctic Lake Vostok
A group of Russian scientists in Antarctica has succeeded in drilling to a lake buried two miles beneath the icy landmass, Russian news service Ria Novosti reported — following a week of radio silence...
Nepal in poultry cull after bird flu found
HEALTH workers in Nepal are to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the southeastern part of the Himalayan country. “We sent samples for investigation to...
Virus strikes cruise ship out of New Orleans
(AP) NEW ORLEANS – A stomach virus outbreak delayed the departure of the cruise ship “Voyager of the Seas” from New Orleans in one of three outbreaks of illness aboard U.S.-based cruise ships reported...
Europe cold snap death toll rises
More deaths have been reported from the cold snap across Europe, which has already claimed more than 200 lives. Ukraine continues to be hardest hit, with another nine deaths overnight. Officials say 131 have...
Dead dolphin tally reaches 81 on Cape Cod
(CNN) — At least 81 dolphins have been found dead or died shortly after being discovered on Cape Cod in a series of largely unexplained strandings that began early last month, according to the...
