Huge waves from 1 storm slam coasts some 6000 km apart
...adar (SAR) ESA Wave Mode products, as shown in the animation above. "The extreme swell systems originated from the same storm, which moved rapidly and had two main strong wind periods," Chapron said. "As illustrated in the animation, the resulting waves were organised into two main swell systems that follow...Predicting an answer to the threat of flooding
The latest advances in computer flood modeling and animation that could help to improve the way we protect the UK's towns and cities from flooding will be highlighted at this year's BA Festival of Science in Norwich. By improving the prediction and visualisation of the speed, direction and extent of water f...Animation can be outlet for victimized children, a tool for research
...n. Tettegah believes so strongly in the value of animation specifically "animated narrative vignette simulations" that she sought out a computer science professor at Illinois, Brian Bailey, to help develop her concept for a child-friendly program for producing them. The program that resulted, called Clov...How the brain sees people in motion
...ects' brains while showing them only "point-light" animation of human movement such as jumping or throwing. These animations consist only of a small number of white dots on a black background, not portraying skin, clothes, or other specific features of a human in action. As a control, to separate effects of vi...Protein that regulates quiescent blood stem cells may enhance recovery from radiation and chemo
... that enables HSCs to exist in a kind of suspended animation until they are recruited to promote rapid repopulation of depleted blood cells, as would be needed following treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy. MEF-deficient mice accumulated quiescent HSCs with the capacity for repopulation and demon...Street-level London air pollution warnings coming via mobile phones
...don this happens most often during the winter the animation above shows citywide pollution patterns during the...en such a high pollution event took place. "This animation was created by us for the Building Exploratory, an interactive exhibition in the London borough of H...