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#Why a Cold Spring Delays Cherry Blossom Blooming It's been a dull spring for cherry blossom watchers so far.
It's a constant struggle to keep our remote infrared cameras running in that cold and power cables snap like twigs.
Then she pointed to an infrared thermometer which measures temperature based on thermal radiation at the tree trunks the koalas were hugging.
Fruits and vegetables are good sources of potassium study co-author Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller a researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New york said in a statement.
We won't be able to fully understand the extinction dynamics until we understand what normal ecological processes were going on in the background study researcher Hans Larsson of Mcgill University said in a statement.
But besides the plane's engine and weight the pilots and the engineers and mechanics who work for them are free to experiment with their planes'designs Mangold said.
and infrared goggles to kill elephants in the dead of night. What if unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
Increased battery life and flight duration greater payloads cheaper infrared sensors and affordable real-time transmission of imagery would all make a major difference.
what effect destruction events like this have on the dynamics of illegal ivory trade. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
We think we have uncovered the mechanism for the appearance of seasonal greening of Amazon forests shadowing within the canopy that changes the amount of near-infrared light observed by MODIS lead study author Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Near-infrared light is just beyond the visible spectrum and plants with more chlorophyll reflect more near-infrared light.
Here's how Morton and his colleagues diagnosed the problem. In the tropics in June the sun is low casting long shadows when the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites snap images
but see a large amount of near-infrared light which plants primarily reflect. Scientists use the ratio of red and near-infrared light as a measure of plant greenness.
By September around the time of the equinox the sun is directly overhead and the forest canopy is shadow-free and highly reflective in the infrared.
That makes it appear very green according to satellite vegetation algorithms though in reality the forest canopy hasn't actually greened the study found.
For this to become a viable possibility NASA engineers would have to solve some daunting technological materials-science and physics issues.
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or the next generation of colliders to spot these Higgs components saidthomas Ryttov a particle physicist at the University of Southern Denmark.</
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However it is more effective at trapping infrared radiation (the greenhouse effect. Methane gas comes from natural sources such as decomposing plants in wetlands
and will reportedly use infrared and visible-light LEDS to detect the wearer's heart rate. Sapphire is very transparent over a very wide wavelength range so it's going to be excellent at transmitting any signals that come from your body like infrared heat Tuller said.
Transmitting these types of signals through sapphire rather than traditional glass will most likely be clearer though Tuller admits the difference is probably minuscule.
First Fire-Scorched Petrified Wood Found SACRAMENTO Calif. After serving nearly 30 years as a doorstop for a nuclear physicist a hunk of petrified wood from Arizona has finally been recognized as a one-of-a-kind find.
His father Cleo Byers was a nuclear physicist for Los alamos National Laboratory in New mexico and took his children on hikes throughout the Southwest Bruce Byers said.
Just trust me on this this drink really will require flavoring Keith-Thomas Ayoob nutritionist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine told ABC News
magnetic field scientists say. By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon which was discovered first by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009 scientists are learning more details about the conditions
and what IBEX is seeing study leader Nathan Schwadron a physicist at the University of New hampshire told Space. com. Previously maps from ground-based observatories showed researchers that clusters of cosmic rays extremely high-energy
The ribbon is roughly perpendicular to the interstellar magnetic field while cosmic rays stream on average along the interstellar magnetic field.
The particles themselves are created from interactions between the solar wind and interstellar matter. In the longer term Schwadron said work like this will help scientists better understand more about the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.
Voyager 1's measurements of the magnetic field from the edge of interstellar space show a starkly different direction of the magnetic field inferred in the IBEX ribbon Schwadron said.
It seems like we now have good independent confirmation that the IBEX ribbon is ordered by the interstellar magnetic field
The few studies examining this issue showing little consensus. An October paper co-authored by Schwadron in Astrophysical Journal Letters argued that Voyager 1 could be measuring interstellar plasma coming in through magnetic field lines
What is really missing here is our understanding of the physics Schwadron said adding that reconnection between magnetic field lines could be an example of something that changes the conditions of the boundary region.
Infrared cameras that can locate leaks are required under a recently approved Colorado regulation. Car-mounted devices sample the air
Cows Toot Out Most Methane Magnetic field is weakening: Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening.
Researchers believe these are the beginning signs of the flipping of the magnetic poles yet it is weakening faster than expected.
Earth's Magnetic field Is Weakening 10 Times Faster Now Why seahorses growl: Warning growls are for more than the likes of dogs and bears.
Ligands in a cationic grip Using a number of techniques including the X ray crystallography beam at the Synchrotron in Melbourne they were able to describe the structure of the active component which only worked
The other eight of us sat around the dive hole staring into the vertigo-inducing dark-blue waters snacked some more (Fig Newtons this time#ou have to eat constantly in Antarctica to keep your body temperature up)
but fluoresce under ultraviolet light. My Ohio expedition took me through some of the state s most picturesque areas including the sandstone gorges of the Hocking Hills where
but given the complicated nature of glacial dynamics all of these attempts have been limited and prone to error.
but was involved not in this study thinks the study provides the best models yet of this particular glacier's dynamics.
Physicist Stephen Hawking even addressed the crowd via telecast. While the hors d'oeuvres were in keeping with the intrepid spirit of the evening Gene Rurka the man behind the menu had another motive in serving creepy crawlies to A-list explorers.
so that the body's center of gravity balances on top of its legs. Their thin legs give them great speed and maneuverability too.
Traditional LED lights lack the ultraviolet rays plants need to thrive he said but new bulbs do a better job of mimicking the sun. The lights use less electricity
For this discovery Kiyoshi Mabuchi Kensei Tanaka Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai took home the Ig Nobel in Physics.
When pooping dogs prefer to align their bodies along the north-south axis of Earth's magnetic field.
versus a beautiful one while being shot in the hand with a laser beam. For their 2008 aesthetic study the team took home this year's Art Prize.
The angle of inclination allowed them to figure out the coefficient of friction between the snakes and the surface which is related to how much force the snakes must produce to support their body weight Byrnes said.
Sloths in the wild though sleep about as much as humans according to research by the Planck Institute for Ornithology in Starnberg Germany.
The Edmi gazelle also known as the Cuvier's gazelleis the only gazelle that lives in the mountains.
For example the Cuvier's gazelle's population is estimated at only 1750 to 2950 according to International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.
and increased exposure to ultraviolet or UV light brought on by climate change may be behind chemical changes in the bark of cork oaks.
More pooping leads to more weight loss Seems like this one is aligned with the laws of physics:
Four separate experiments found a joint value for the top quark of 173.34(+/0. 76) gigaelectronvolts divided by the speed of light squared scientists announced Wednesday (March 19) at a physics conference in Italy.</
so it is far from secure that the coprolites they worked on are said from humans Michael Richards a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany who was involved not in the study.
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but is about 34 times more potent at trapping infrared radiation (the greenhouse effect) than carbon dioxide which is more abundant
The researchers used remote spectrometers on the ground to measure and compare emissions from the San juan Generating Station with those of the Four Corners Generating Station two large coal-fired power plants in northwest New mexico near the city of Farmington.
but two Italian sausages it s clear that caloric extremism still rules the roost at many of America s chain restaurants said Paige Einstein a dietitian at CSPI.
says David Fahey, a physicist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
If grown in unnaturally high temperatures or strong ultraviolet light plants do produce small amounts of methane.
Frank Keppler of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, a co-author on the original report on plant methane emissions,
observes that recent studies point to a strong link between methane production and ultraviolet radiation, and that methane can come from parts of plants that do not give off water4,
Rainforest loss in Xishuangbanna also has implications for carbon dynamics and climate change in the region.
NASA can also perform some CO2 monitoring with the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, launched aboard the Aqua satellite in 2002.
Frank Postberg at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear physics in Heidelberg, Germany, likes the ocean idea.
Reich and Kueppers use infrared heating lamps which have the advantage of not enclosing the sides of test plots,
By studying experimental rice plots and real farmland, Chris Butenhoff and Aslam Khalil, physicists from Portland State university in Portland, Oregon, together with Xiong Zhenqin, an ecologist at Nanjing Agricultural
The researchers report in the Journal of Zoology1 that the bats had an average maximum bite force of 10.9 newtons,
The week ahead 5-7 october The 2009 Nobel prizes for physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry are announced. http://nobelprize. org 5-7 october Singapore hosts the Stem Cells
Canada, is to predict the dynamics between the organisms under various climatic conditions. We should be able to look at particular genes
A former Los alamos nuclear-weapons physicist says that he is under investigation for espionage. The researcher, P. Leonardo Mascheroni, spoke to the Associated press on 22 october,
& the Press News maker Large Hadron Collider Physicists last week injected particles into the accelerator for the first time
The physics prize went to Charles Kao, for his work on how light can be transmitted through optical glass fibres;
and industrial representatives converge on Brussels to discuss the region's space programme. www. spaceconference. eu 15-25 october Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical physics (see Nature 461,
'The Gran Sasso National Laboratory offered shelter to physics students and teachers from the university and conditions slowly improved over the summer.
says Inez Fung, an atmospheric physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. She presented the results of her team's study on 14 december at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San francisco
Sweden. go. nature. com/PUFASN 11 december NASA's orbiting infrared telescope, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, is scheduled to launch. http://wise. ssl. berkeley. edu 14-18 december The American Geophysical Union meets in San francisco,
California. www. agu. org/meetings/fm09 Number crunch 221 The number of days unmanned underwater glider Scarlet Knight took to cross the Atlantic ocean, gathering water data.
Radial-velocity measurements typically exploit the visible bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. But VB10 is a very dim star
and gives off most of its light as infrared radiation. At the Very Large Telescope in Chile, Bean placed a gas cell filled with ammonia in the path of the starlight,
enabling him to calibrate the instrument for the infrared. We would definitely have seen a significant amount of variation in our data
Events Wise delivers infrared wisdom NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has offered up the first pictures
Whereas the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope honed in on specific objects, WISE, with its huge field of view, will take an infrared census.
It should complete 1. 5 sweeps of the sky before its cryogens run out around October.
Physicists Anton Zeilinger, John Clauser and Alain Aspect share the prestigious 2010 Wolf Prize in Physics for their work on quantum entanglement.
and oceans to futuristic'solar-radiation management'techniques for example, creating haze in the stratosphere to act as a cheap layer of sunscreen.
Testing solar-radiation management techniques on a global scale is given particularly daunting that detecting changes in the climate system caused by geoengineering would be nearly as difficult as measuring global warming itself.
says Mark Stitt at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany.
These were fed then into a mass spectrometer, which measured the isotopes in each layer. From those, the scientists could calculate the conditions under which each layer formed.
a physicist at the University of California at Berkeley who announced the discovery on 3 march at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference near Houston,
and rocked by supernova shock waves and cosmic rays. The grains were far harder to catch than the comet particles.
Indian space agency ISRO's first test flight of a homemade cryogenic engine powered by fuels that are liquid at very low temperatures ended in failure on 15 april,
right), will now be used to shield the CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) detector,
Events Large Hadron Collider ends data drought Physicists have started to gather experimental data from the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
which called for a doubling of research funding in the physical sciences. See go. nature. com/asmylx for more.
says Ingeborg Levin, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Levin is one of many scientists developing air-sampling networks,
Levin has been regularly measuring carbon-14 content in air samples from Germany using a version of a Geiger counter,
Eye in the sky The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has made its first airborne observations
and can make infrared observations that would normally be obscured by water vapour in the lower atmosphere.
In particular, he is pushing for NASA to prioritize a mission called the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (Hyspiri),
says committee-member Peter Clarke, a professor of physics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Russell says that the review panel analysed this independently obtained data and produced essentially the same shapes of graph as that reported by the CRU scientists,
Michael Tomasello, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, comments on the misconduct investigation into prominent Harvard university psychologist Marc Hauser.
and the Nizhni novgorod region southwest of Moscow, according to figures from the Global Fire Monitoring Centre (GFMC), part of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, based at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
Chinese researchers presented their findings on China's phosphate use at the 4th International Symposium on Phosphorus Dynamics in the Plant-Soil Continuum in Beijing.
tweezers and teaspoons to gather sediment samples into small plastic vials before taking them to an infrared spectrometer set up on a folding table at the edge of the site.
The chemical clues yielded by the spectrometer gave immediate feedback to the diggers as they collected further samples.
he and his colleagues show how infrared spectrometry can reveal the distinctive origins of seemingly identical layers of calcite, a form of calcium carbonate (L. Regev et al.
a nuclear physicist at the Weizmann Institute, is a regular participant in digs, where she can be seen on her hands
and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of technology, has been known for her work on hurricanes, Arctic ice dynamics and other climate-related topics.
what might happen with ice dynamics (although the authors caution that considerable uncertainty remains about the projections).
But in a way, that's a consequence of failing to acknowledge that all science has these political dynamics.
'According to figures from the Global Fire Monitoring Centre (GFMC), based at the University of Freiburg in Germany and part of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, around 7 million hectares including 800,000 hectares of forest,
Changing the magnetic field may disturb their magnetic orientation, he says, leading to less precision in dance communication.
the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Observatory (SOFIA) has published its first images of the sky, focusing on the Orion star-formation complex.
The 2. 5-metre, mid-infrared telescope is mounted on the back of a Boeing 747 that flies in the stratosphere above much of the atmospheric water vapour that absorbs infrared light.
People Murder in Iran Majid Shahriari, an Iranian nuclear physicist, was killed and his wife injured in a bomb attack on 29 november in Tehran.
and includes the latest results from the Kepler mission's hunt for exoplanets. aas. org/meetings/aas217 10 14 january Researchers meet in Paris to discuss the status of the Planck mission,
Mohamed El Raey, a physicist at the University of Alexandria, told Nature Middle east that support for education,
People Developing world Romain Murenzi, a physicist and Rwanda's former science minister, was named on 7 february as the new executive director of TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world.
Research Einstein telescope A network of European researchers released designs on 19 may for an ultra-sensitive gravitational-wave observatory.
The'Einstein telescope''to be constructed around 2025, would be ten times more sensitive than even second-generation detectors expected to come online around 2015,
and funded five decades ago 墉 had confirmed at last predictions of general relativity. The US$750-million satellite flew from 2004 to 2005,
The aim is to spot pockets of plant growth by combining a measure of the'greenness'of an area with infrared data that reveal water content.
physicists with the T2k (Tokai to Kamioka) multinational collaboration reported on 15 june (T2k Collaboration http://arxiv. org/abs/1106.2822;
Physicists hope to eke out 12 before the 26-year-old machine shuts down at the end of September.
The team's work combines physics biochemistry and ecology, beginning with measuring subtle differences in the way the forest canopy absorbs
and reflects solar radiation. The signal varies depending on the leaves'concentrations of nutrients, minerals, pigments such as chlorophyll,
Capable of registering more than 400 frequencies of light, from ultraviolet to infrared, the instrument will take 60,000 measurements per second, with great accuracy.
and brought it to bear in the most advanced airborne imaging spectrometer ever built, says Rob Green,
We're getting more like the physical sciences in the sense that we have to have bigger projects with enormous amounts of information,
COMCATTLE seem to align with magnetic field lines, but researchers are in disagreement over the finding. A follow-up study by Burda and his colleagues showed no such alignment near electric power lines,
Nobel physicist dies Atomic physicist Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel prize in Physics, died on 4 november, aged 96.
where he developed improved methods for probing atomic structure by measuring the response to electromagnetic radiation.
For a more consistent picture, he and his colleagues charted the population dynamics of woolly mammoths
its main research payload was the Italian Space agency's Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES, pictured: sphere on top of the rocket's payload) which will study the Lense-Thirring effect,
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, mapped every position in the genome an average of 30 times, improving on the 1. 9-fold coverage in their 2010
PEOPLE China science prize Chinese physicist Xie Jialin, who pioneered the building of China's first high-energy linear particle accelerator in 1964,
these atoms are unaffected by the Sun's magnetic field. Mccomas says that it takes about 30 years for particles to cross the bubble wall at the heliosphere s edge
says Donald Olson, a physicist with an interest in historical astronomy at Texas State university in San marcos,
To Tom Manney, an emeritus professor of biology and physics at Kansas State university, which is located adjacent to the NBAF site,
Higgs papers Researchers at ATLAS and the CMS, the two main physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, posted their papers describing a new Higgs-boson-like
D. PARKER/SPLBERNARD Lovell dies Physicist and radio astronomer Bernard Lovell who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester,
and 146 papers that had more than 1, 000 authors most of them in physics
Brazil s fund for low-carbon agriculture lies fallowrice cultivation has received a boost in Brazil
The physics prize was won by Serge Haroche and David Wineland, for their experiments in quantum optics.
says atmospheric physicist David Crisp of NASA s Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California, who is the science team leader of OCO-2."A timely launch of this satellite should be among the highest priorities of ESA.
and the ant behavior and signaling dynamics could add to research about pest control for agriculture.
which used satellite measurements to estimate forest greenness using reflected solar radiation is that the data can be muddied by clouds and atmospheric aerosols.
Funder concessions The Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Britain s biggest public funder of physics
an infrared sensor scans the horizon, silently mapping carbon dioxide levels across Los angeles. In the city below,
Tuned to near-infrared wavelengths, the sensor measures the proportion of the heat being absorbed by CO2,
and NASA will contribute 20 infrared detectors, valued at around $50 million in total, for one of the instruments on the spacecraft.
As increasing force (as measured in newtons) is applied to the diamond pyramid, the material s ability to resist indentation levels off at its so-called asymptotic value (as measured in gigapascals).
The data in the new study only show how the nano-twinned boron nitride responded to indentation loads with up to seven newtons of force."
In that work, published in Applied Physics Letters, Dubrovinskaia and her colleagues presented data from Vickers testing with loads of up to 10 newtons
by using sucrose to lure them into a Faraday pail an electrically shielded bucket that reacts to the charge of anything inside it.
and will, respectively, monitor Earth s magnetic field; global wind profiles; and clouds, aerosols and radiation.
Ernest Moniz, a physicist at the Massachusetts institute of technology in Cambridge. Moniz, who served as an undersecretary for energy under former president Bill clinton,
and to monitor the peculiar growth dynamics of tropical forests. For instance, most of the trees in a mature tropical forest are hardly growing,
says Markus Reichstein, a carbon-cycle scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, who coordinates CARBO-Extreme.
a plant geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in T Â bingen, Germany, who co-led a study published today in the journal elife1."
Hawking row Physicist Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge, UK, has pulled out of a high-profile conference in Israel.
To look for more pears, Peter Butler, a physicist at the University of Liverpool, UK, and his colleagues fired a high-energy proton beam at a piece of uranium carbide in the ISOLDE isotope mass separator facility at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland."
With two known pear-shaped nuclei, physicists can now start to tease apart the theoretical models.
At ISOLDE, a team led by Deyan Yordanov, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear physics in Heidelberg,
Germany, analysed the spectrum of ultraviolet light emitted by cadmium ions, which is influenced subtly by the shape of the nucleus. Cadmium nuclei are nearly spherical,
Even more enticingly, the experiments could probe basic physics. The standard model of particle physics, which describes the strong and weak nuclear forces and the electromagnetic force, leaves several basic questions unanswered.
similar to the magnetic field of a bar magnet. If that is so, pear-shaped nuclei should have the strongest electric dipoles,
says nuclear physicist Gavin Smith of the University of Manchester, UK, who is not a member of Butler's team
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