Aerosol pollution slows down winds and reduces rainfall
...ts can accumulate in the atmosphere and reduce the speed of winds closer to the Earth's surface, which resu... to study the effects of aerosol particles on wind speed and rainfall. Slower winds, less rain Aerosol particles floating in the atmosphere absorb or ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2007
...m. The unit also benefits from the use of variable speed components that have operating rates that can be adjusted to meet current loads efficiently. A number of other factors, including the availability of mass-produced products such as brushless permanent magnet motors for compressors and fans, are seen ...Nitrogen study may improve ecological predictions
...oil types, microbes present, or other factors. The speed of the process is affected by climate, particularl... The overall decomposition process, he said, does speed up in warmer or wetter conditions, which many anticipate as a result of climate change and global wa...Bats in flight reveal unexpected aerodynamics
...laser imaging device, which captures the position, speed and direction of the particles in her wake. By combining the information from dozens of flights, the research team was able to build a picture of the location and strength of the wake structure at each point in the bat's wing stroke. The detail of t...Method devised for diagnosis of ocular diseases
...ers. The ease of use of the system and both its speed and simplicity (a positive testing sign in the form of a coloured band) enables the system to be employed on a daily basis in the clinic. The markers on which the design of this diagnostic system is based are being analysed throughout the research pr...Defective movement of cell's power plants implicated in commom inherited neurological disorder
...h a fluorescent microscope in order to observe the speed at which the mitochondria moved. In normal cells, mitochondria are highly mobile. However, in the neurons with mutant MFN2 genes, movement is significantly reduced. Still unknown is exactly how the mutated MFN2 protein alters mitochondrial transpo...Environments resilient in the face of hurricanes, but questions remain, says journal special issue
...cteristics of the storms themselves: direction and speed of approach, point of landfall, and intensity all made a difference in the extent of environmental damage. Storms that carried more rainfall seemed to do more long-term damage than "hit-and-run" storms with higher winds. "The research compiled in t...JDRF applauds important passage of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007
...husiasm and commitment to work with legislators to speed the discovery of cures for themselves and their loved ones is both admirable and heartening, as we explore a wide range of scientific opportunities in our search for a cure."...New study sheds light on 'dark states' in DNA
...Still, a picosecond is not so fast compared to the speed of some chemical reactions in living cells. In tests of single DNA bases, the dark state lasted for 10-150 picoseconds -- much longer than the bright state. The chemists reported their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...'Red tide toxins' leave beachgoers breathless
...tored air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed and direction. During active K brevis bloom exposure periods, significant differences were found for all participants between pre- and post- beach report of symptoms and pre- and post- spirometry. During exposure periods, participants reported a si...Physicians face significant new liability risks with advent of personalized medicine era
...lity for not employing pharmacogenomic testing may speed the pace of its adoption. While drug manufacturers, health insurers, and even pharmacists face some liability risks, physicians are most at risk for lawsuits alleging that they did not recommend genetic tests before prescribing drugs that may harm p...UGA study underscores importance of rapid reponse in curtailing disease outbreaks
...el that takes into account how factors such as the speed at which information is gathered about a disease and how quickly that information is disseminated to the public affect the final size of an outbreak. The model, published in the journal PloS (Public Library of Science) One finds that in the 2003 SA...Complexity constrains evolution of human brain genes
...urns out to be difficult to measure. To assess the speed with which both humans and chimpanzees accumulated many small differences in gene sequences accurately, Wu and colleagues in Taiwan and Japan decided to sequence several thousand genes expressed in the brain of the macaque monkey and compare them wit...NASA data helps pinpoint wildfire threats
...creating fire spread computer models that use wind speed and direction forecasts to determine where fires will travel. And in the near future, scientists will likely be able to map fire severity to get an indication of the overall impact of a wildfire on the landscape and environment, including the amount ...On the golf tee or pitcher's mound, brain dooms motion to inconsistency
...eir reaches. Then the researchers would record the speed of the resulting motion. Over a series of thousan...the scientists found the small variations in reach speed were predicted by small variations in brain activity during movement planning, before the movement e...Mayo researcher discovers target site for developing mosquito pesticides
...it of teraflops, which is a processor capable of a speed of one trillion floating-point operations per second. A single teraflops computer is comparable to a computer that can search at least 50,000 Manhattan phonebooks in one second. Terascale systems are among the most powerful computers available today....News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...s, indicating that complete androgen depletion can speed up AD-like pathology. These effects were prevented if the castrated mice were treated with androgen....Gene chip technology shows potential for identifying life-threatening blood infection
...lop a simple bedside blood test that would greatly speed the diagnosis of sepsis," says J. Perren Cobb, MD, director of Washington University's Center for Critical Illness and Health Engineering and a surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. "We could in a few hours determine if a patient had a blood infection a...Sniffers show that humans can track scents, and that two nostrils are better than one
...accuracy significantly while nearly doubling their speed along the scent trail. In one experiment, the au... they could improve. All were able to double their speed along the track within just a few days and deviated much less from the scent trail than on their fir......igh. My results show that there is every reason to speed up the work being done to clean the air in the underground." Every year, some 5,300 Swedes die premature deaths from inhaling the microscopic particles of coal, asphalt, iron and other materials that pollute the citys air. These particles, which ar...