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Hummingbirds are capable of performing spectacular aerial maneuvers when flying through the rain. These maneuvers help them eliminate water from their plumage, allowing them to remain aloft even when other birds are grounded.
Scientists were puzzled to find out that this is the case, especially since it is widely k... |
10 November 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Scientists with the US Geological Survey (USGS) have calculated that leaves falling off trees in the autumn transfer as much mercury from the atmosphere to the environment as precipitations do.The work was focused on surveying the quantities of hazardous mercury that makes its way into the environment. According to r... |
3 August 2011
03:13 GMT |
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Warner Bros. Interactive, the publisher of the recently launched Mortal Kombat fighting game, has announced that it will make the four pieces of downloadable content that will be launched on the Xbox 360 available for a reduced price for those who pick up a Season Pass.The new Pass is set to cost 1200 Microsoft Point... |
20 June 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Over the centuries, experts have noticed that only certain clouds produce massive amounts of rain, while others produce only limited or moderate precipitations. Experts with the American space agency and colleagues from other research groups are coordinating a large scale effort to clear up this mystery.NASA is appar... |
28 April 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Geological studies of the planet's rocks seem to point at the idea that vital chemical elements life uses today were not indigenous to Earth, but were rather brought here by extraterrestrial raining seasons. Hydrogen, carbon and phosphorous are all elements without which life on this planet would be impossible. ... |
19 April 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Investigations conducted by the NASA Cassini spacecraft late last year allowed experts to discover that the deserts on Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, were not as arid as first thought. Planetary scientists say it's no doubt the space probe readings indicate the presence of methane rain above them.At fi... |
18 March 2011
04:57 GMT |
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An University of California in Irvine (UCI) engineering professor and his team are at the forefront of precipitation analysis, with a series of new maps they are producing for the United States and countries around the world.Increasingly often, authorities from a variety of nations turn to UCI professor Soroosh Soroo... |
11 January 2011
03:48 GMT |
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The Australian “Wheatbelt,” an area of the country that, as the name implies, is responsible for producing the majority of the country's grains, has just turned green from yellow, after being drenched by powerful rains. This change in fortune for farmers in the area came in late 2010, and was so inte... |
23 December 2010
06:57 GMT |
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An international team of investigators says that using Doppler radars for keeping an eye on monsoons could significantly improve the accuracy of predictions as to when the events will hit. The approach could also yield more viable data as to how intense and strong the weather event will be. This is very important con... |
5 October 2010
04:53 GMT |
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Clouds may be interacting with each other in the sky, a new investigation finds. Researchers believe that rain clouds may be forming synchronous patterns, depending on signals clouds in a cloud field get from other such atmospheric structures. The basic principle is the same underlying the communication pattern firef... |
12 August 2010
05:10 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have demonstrated a mechanism through which laser beams shot into the air can promote the formation of water droplets. According to the team of optical physicists behind the work, it could be that the technique will be used in the future to promote the formation of rainfall ... |
3 May 2010
03:48 GMT |
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If a species of animal lives in the rain forest, one would expect that they have grown accustomed to the rain. In some instances, water can fall from the sky for days on end, and all creatures living in these areas need to be perfectly adapted to surviving in this environment. However, it would appear now that not al... |
7 April 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Oxygen-isotope readings have for many years been used as the main source of information regarding the speed with which the Andes Mountains of South America rose. Many experts still believe that the mountain range rose quickly from the surrounding land, due to cataclysmic events caused by the tectonic plates nearby. B... |
2 April 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Over the past 15 years, astronomers have been puzzled at a seemingly-inexplicable mystery. When the Galileo space probe first arrived at the gas giant Jupiter, back in 1995, it revealed the fact that the upper atmosphere of the planet was poorer in the noble gases helium and neon than anyone anticipated. These are th... |
22 March 2010
11:10 GMT |
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According to current knowledge, our ancestors first appeared in eastern Africa, where the oldest, human-like fossils were found. They are believed to have then left the continent in successive migrations, eventually spreading across the planet and beginning their domination of the world. However, historians and paleo... |
10 November 2009
04:57 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study from researchers in China, it may be that raindrops play a much larger role in nature than first believed. The experts theorize that the small droplets may have been one of the largest driving forces behind the evolution of flowers, and their shapes. They believe that some species ... |
6 August 2009
06:47 GMT |
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The appropriate jailbreak tool for iPhone 3G S devices has reportedly been released for the Mac platform as well. Last week, as Softpedia reported the tool’s availability, supported platforms included Windows machines only. This week, a Mac version of PurpleRa1n is available to the public. On Friday, July 3, ... |
6 July 2009
02:38 GMT |
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A blogger going by the name of George Hotz has posted what looks like the appropriate tool to jailbreak an iPhone 3G S. Going by the screen name of George Hotz or GeoHot, the author of the Purplera1n tool reveals that the method is currently supported on Windows platforms only, while Windows 7 is not compatible with ... |
3 July 2009
06:20 GMT |
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The scientific theory that holds that bacteria in clouds may be, to some extent, responsible for rain formation has drawn immense criticism from the scientific community when it first appeared, a good 25 years ago. Ever since, a small number of researchers have continued their investigations into this belief, and the... |
15 June 2009
18:41 GMT |
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A new scientific study shows that, during heavy storms, the smaller droplets of water falling from the sky are actually traveling faster than others, and also faster than they should be able to. The find, which scientists say is like discovering the meteorological equivalent of breaking the light-speed barrier, could... |
13 June 2009
03:33 GMT |
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The ritual of rain-making has been with humans since our race first began harvesting plants for consumption. Since the very survival of the individuals depended entirely on the crops, the need for such a ritual came with the territory, anthropologists say. It was the shaman's job to learn the right words, and to... |
20 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that bacteria are everywhere around, near and even inside us. In fact, the human body is host to countless species of bacteria, and is entirely dependent on them for its very survival. Now, researchers begin to uncover a new role that bacteria seem to possess, that of being able to summon t... |
12 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Although people take it for granted, it doesn't mean that clouds remain up there in the sky just because we're accustomed to. There is a number of reasons for which this happens, and these include water particles' size, air and wind pushing or weight.Surely, this is a question that reminds us of the Ig... |
17 October 2008
02:55 GMT |
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It is clear that once there was plenty of water on Mars. The recent findings of NASA's Phoenix Lander indicated that currently, the red planet is pretty much covered by an underground layer of water ice (non-carbonic). However, it remains to be seen exactly to what extent the Martian ice spreads. But what form d... |
27 September 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Today, Sahara is a huge desert area, with erratic dunes (ergs) and plains covered by rugged rocks (hamada), punctuated by mountains with heights of up to 3,400 m (11,000 ft), covering 8.8 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), a surface bigger than that of Australia. At great distances one from another... |
9 May 2008
05:03 GMT |
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When the rain dance fails, turn to cloud seeding, say the Chinese officials. With the imminent approach of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is seriously taking into consideration the use of technology to clear pollution in the city and inhibit the rain from falling from the sky when it is not required, which basically mean... |
29 February 2008
09:05 GMT |
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Samsung just released one of its latest music phones, Samsung Anycall MusiCall F258, a pretty little slider that brings lots of features to users who mainly want music capabilities from a cell phone. The new handset is specially designed for the fans of Rain. And if you haven't heard about Rain (real name: Jung ... |
16 February 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Since the day was coming to an end, I thought why not hit Apple Discussions to see what iPod/iPhone users have been at lately. A laugh is always guaranteed since not everyone takes appropriate care of their Apple devices, but some go to extremes in killing their electronics. This poster claims his iPod "was in the ra... |
6 February 2008
11:53 GMT |
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Oh no... it's starting again! I mean I like all these energy converting devices that try to harness the full potential power resulted during a natural physical process, but what's enough is enough. I know the universe is all about energy and all the different ways it is converted, but all the trouble one ha... |
22 January 2008
10:59 GMT |
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Many of you haven't even heard of Rain, the Korean artist who sings numerous hits in Asia and attracted lots of fans. But what's interesting is that his website was hacked and more importantly, it was modified to host a money mule fraud attempt as the folks at F-Secure wrote on the official blog of the comp... |
14 November 2007
05:04 GMT |
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Many acids result from the combination of a nonmetal oxide with water.Water can be found in nature, the oxides can be dumped by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels. This is how acid rains result: rains filled with acids. The main causes are the nitrogen and sulfur oxides, that give nitric and sulfu... |
5 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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There is music and there is music. Of course, this music has to be recorded somewhere and processed by someone before you buy the CD. Now, as today's audio is getting more and more complex, with highly-advanced processing and most subtle sound effects, it would take months to have your album ready with yesterday... |
4 June 2007
03:27 GMT |
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Many people are afraid that the global warming will turn many areas into deserts, besides flooding low areas and melting the mountain glaciers and polar ice caps. But a new analysis of 20 years of satellite data shows that rising temperatures will bring in fact more rainfall, challenging classic climate model concept... |
1 June 2007
08:24 GMT |
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The Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile and reaches a small part of southern Peru (South America), climbing up to 3,200 m (10,670 ft) altitude on an area of 181,300 square km (72,500 square mi). It spreads like a rather narrow stretch between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains over a distance of 960 km... |
23 May 2007
11:33 GMT |
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The Twilight Umbrella is definitely not the type of umbrella you often forget at home. If you leave in a hurry for work, there's no way you could miss its built-in tiny lights. An umbrella that sparks, how's that for visual stimuli, eh? You can choose from two flavours: one is black and studded with plenty ... |
30 April 2007
11:48 GMT |
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Spring in the temperate areas is the time when a cycle interrupted by the winter is restarted. Many people are worried by the fact that the extremely warm winters - due to the current man made global warming - could make trees bloom in January or February. But this is not going to happen, as plants and most animals r... |
17 April 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Now, I have been telling you about what Rain Recordings are up to on the face of the Earth: they're sworn to keep on producing the coolest and the most efficient recording equipment when it comes to PC, whether we're into laptop or desktop systems. This time, Rain outdid themselves and stepped boldly forwar... |
13 March 2007
11:14 GMT |
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