Aerosol pollutants in atmosphere likely masking global warming
New observations with space-borne instruments by Daniel Rosenfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem showing aerosols over land can modify clouds, suppress precipitation and reflect light is a "huge leap forward" in understanding the interplay between pollutants, clouds and greenhouse warming...Record breaking temperatures seen as evidence of faster rate of global warming
...ratures. This, Karl notes, was unprecedented since instruments began systematically recording temperature in the ...olina, analyzed data from land based and satellite instruments for their study. They conclude that the rate of warming since 1976 is clearly greater than the avera...Lung ailments come with the paycheck for wide swath of workers
...thma. . Hospitals. The chemicals used to sterilize instruments can sometimes cause allergies. . Janitorial services. Custodians can be exposed to dangerous gases if they mix bleach with common detergents. . Manufacturing. Cleaning products, paints and other chemicals can cause allergies and asthma. . Tool Fabric...Large air pollution center established at NYU School of Medicine
...near NYU Medical Center), with a set of collection instruments in order to characterize the air that New Yorkers breathe. Another will develop models for tracking the route of ultrafine particles into the airways using CT (computerized tomography) scans. Still another will determine the specific components of pa...Millenium bug found by CSIRO scientists
...shwater all over Australia. "Insects are very fine instruments for indicating the biological health of their environment. The goal here was to identify the various species of small water striders so we know exactly what they can tell us about the health of our streams and waterbodies." Bugs from the Veliidae fa...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...aw". Jurisprudence has developed a series of novel instruments and principles in this field designed to master the institutionally and economically complex world of environmental protection; Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff occupies a leading position in this field. Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst (43), Theoretical Ph...El Niño's dramatic impact on ocean biology and carbon dioxide captured by unique monitoring system
...he equatorial Pacific Ocean. Data from an array of instruments on buoys, on ships, and in space, including NASA's...tinuous set of biological measurements from moored instruments and satellites during an intense El Niño, and we've never seen such low chlorophyll concentra...Fall Meeting: updated press conferences and special events
... of volcanic eruptions on Io from various Galileo instruments and from Earth. (This press conference will consist of new results and will not duplicate the November 19 NASA Space Science Update on Io.) Panel: Laszlo Keszthelyi, Galileo imaging team, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson...UB establishes institute for research on lasers, photonics and biophotonics
...a include research into new cancer treatments, new instruments and laser training formedical, dental and aesthetic applications. Funding to launch the institute is provided by the UB Office of the Provost, with faculty support from the College ofArts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,...Future uses of MicroElectricalMechanical (MEM) systems to be featured at Santa Clara show
...cal or microwave communications. Microsensors are instruments that detect their surroundings, bringing the sensesof sight, smell, touch and hearing to devices. Applications include scanning theatmosphere for toxic gases. Logic circuits contain millions of transistors with features as small as avirus, and permit...Air pollution hits children with asthma hardest, USC study finds
...llutantswere collected from outdoor air monitoring instruments in each of thecommunities. McConnell et al. found that children with asthma who lived Southern Californiacommunities with high levels of pollutants were more likely to have hadbronchitis and phlegm, reflecting exacerbation of asthma. These results w...The Sagan criteria for life revisited
...lileo spaceprobe swooped by Earth in 1990, all its instruments were pointed towards us. As Galileo flew toward our planet, the Earth was centered in the windshield and then again in the rear-view mirror as Galileo continued on its journey to Jupiter. Galileo's close encounter with Earth framed one of the most...Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...with information to assess one's health as well as instruments likestethoscopes and thermometers. The first box will be placed in a remote CostaRican village later this summer, and several more are planned for Costa Rica, atleast 20 in the United States, and dozens more throughout Latin America. "It's a ...1999 Spring Meeting: Information For Media Representatives
... 111 Scientists using three unique auroral imaging instruments on the Polar GlobalGeoscience Satellite will describe two major discoveries--a "midnight gap" inthe aurora and the locations of substorm onsets--and two importantmeasurements--the total energy stored in the magnetosphere and the total powerpumped int...Vesicle Chemistry: A New Way To Get Life-Like Reactions
... according to Zare, they can usea variety of other instruments to measure these micro-chemical reactions.Many of the reactions that take place within a cell do not work in the same wayat larger volumes. That is because the molecules inside the cell -- driven bythermal energy -- are continuously careening off eac...Largest Acoustics Meeting In History Expected
...sounds from such devices and discuss novel musical instruments that may be possible with this approach--including trombone-like contraptions and "thermoacoustic organs" (2aPAa3). Gregory W. Swift of Los Alamos National Lab( swift@lanl.gov ) has built a thermoacoustic natural-gas liquefier, which cools and lique...X-Ray Concentrator Will Expand Window On High-Energy Universe
...ed only by coded-aperturepinhole cameras and other instruments that give a coarse view of the skies. Thismakes the 10 to 100 keV range one of the great unexplored frontiers inastrophysics. The closer you look,the more you see No one is sure what will be seen at higher energies, but the scientists aregoing o...More Research Needed To Reach Green Goals
...s,atmospheric pollution,transport systems, control instruments and life style, with regard to, forexample, the relationbetween various toxic pollutants, how they spread and the risk for cancer andother respiratoryillnesses. This also includes the combined effects of emissions that affect theclimate and the ozone...Fall Meeting: Updated Press Conference Schedule
...a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun. Using instruments on NASA's Polar and Wind spacecraft, they have detected that the flow of "polar wind" increased substantially in response to a CME that hit Earth on September 25, 1998. In effect, pressure from the CME and solar wind squeezed ions out of the ionosphe...Scientist Finds Asteroid Fossil That May Have Caused Global Dinosaur Extinction
...nch long, Kyte wasable to deduce its origins using instruments from UCLA's electron microprobe andneutron activation laboratories. These instruments, which can identify thechemical components of a given substance, found the fossil to be high iniridium, an element found in relative abundance in asteroid meteorit...