Category Archives: Science

NASA infrared imagery shows well-defined eye in Category 5 Celia

By Guest PostJune 25, 2010Scienceairs, atmospheric infrared sounder, baja California, category 5 storm, celia, eastern pacific, ed olsen, hurricane celia, infrared image, moderate imaging spectroradiometer, modis, nasa aqua satellite, nasa jpl, national hurricane center, tropical cyclones, tropopause, troposphere

Celia has exploded into a monster hurricane in the Eastern Pacific, and is now a Category 5 storm over open waters.

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared image (that shows temperature) of Celia’s clouds and clearly shows an eye in the storm.

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Dinosaur-chewing mammals leave behind oldest known tooth marks

By Guest PostJune 24, 2010Scienceadrosaurid, alberta, aquatic reptile, canada, ceratopsid, champsosaurus, cleveland museum of natural history, deer, dinosaur, dinosaur-chewing mammals, Epoch, femur bone, journal paleontology, late cretaceous, mammalian tooth marks, marsupial, michael j. ryan, multituberculates, nicholas longrich, ornithischian, paleontologists, royal tyrrell museum of palaeontology, university of alberta laboratory for vertebrate palaeon, yale university

New Haven, Conn. — Paleontologists have discovered the oldest mammalian tooth marks yet on the bones of ancient animals, including several large dinosaurs. They report their findings in a paper published online June 16 in the journal Paleontology.

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Revealing China’s ancient past

By Guest PostJune 7, 20101 commentCulture, Scienceamerican association for the advancement of science, arts & sciences, China, environmental change, han dynasty, henan provincial institute of cultural relics and archa, mississippi river, mulberry leaves, pleistocene era, plow shares, rural life in china, sanyangzhuang, silk cultivation, silk road, society for american archeology, st. louis, t.r. kidder, washington university, western china, yellow river

An archeologist at Washington University in St. Louis is helping to reveal for the first time a snapshot of rural life in China during the Han Dynasty.

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Fragmented forests result in more snakes, fewer birds

By Guest PostMay 25, 20102 commentsScienceagriculture, badgers, cache river state, circumstantial, coyotes, eastern north America, florida keys, forest edge, foxes, fragmented forest, gerardo carfagno, hawks, natural area, ornithologists, parental activity, patrick weatherhead, predator, prey, raccoons, rat snakes, southern Illinois, southern Ontario, texas, unfragmented forest, university of Illinois, video cameras, wooded or semi-wooded habitat

About half of all bird nests don’t survive due to predators, particularly in fragmented forest areas, but why?

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Plant’s role in global warming

By Guest PostApril 30, 2010Environment, Scienceandy mcleod, atmosphere, Bangladesh, campus, carbon dioxide, earth, forestry and agriculture, global warming, methane, moulana bhashani science and technology university, ozone, percent of earth’s emission, plants, santosh, school of geosciences, tangail, university of edinburgh

Plants remain an effective way of tackling global warming despite emitting small amounts of an important greenhouse gas, a study has shown.

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Now, get to know yourself

By PravdaApril 26, 2010Health, Science: umbilicus, apatite, aragonite, bacteria, calcite, christobalite, leonardo da vinci, nerve impulse, sperm cells, vitruvian man

Now spend few minutes to know some amazing facts about your own-self. 😉

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‘Unexpected’ Discovery a Clue in Solving Galactic Mystery

By Guest PostApril 23, 2010Sciencebiosignature, Christine dellert, columbia university, earth-like planet, galactic mystery, joseph harrington, kevin stevenson, massachusetts institute of technology, methane-free world, NASA, neptune, oxygen, physics professor, smallest exoplanet GJ 436b, spitzer space telescope, ufc, university of central florida

A Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting a small star about 33 light years away could be a key stepping stone on the path to making sense of an Earth twin.

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Eyjafjallajokull

By PravdaApril 19, 2010Scienceecological catastrophe, eyjafjallajökull, fluoride gas, gravity, iceland-mountains glacier, Icelandic volcano, katla volcano, laki, maria neira, NASA, newtonwise, particulate, sulphur dioxide, terra satellite, volcanic plume, world health organization

Eyjafjallajökull. While some say it is “unpronounceable”, it would be a good idea to get used to the name because for sure it is going to be around the international media for a long time to come.

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