Plumes of several anthropogenic pollutants (especially particulate matter and carbon monoxide) located near ground level over China have for the first time been detected from space. The work was carried out by a team at the Laboratoire ...
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Scientists said on Friday they had mapped ground-level air pollution in China from space for the first time, a feat that should help the fight against a notorious health hazard. French and Belgian atmospheric scientists used an infrared ...
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CIOs at midmarket and large companies in Europe and the U.S. will spend 4.5 percent more on IT products and services this year than in 2013 as they focus their budget priorities on cloud computing, ERP and analytics software. That’s ...
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This week a new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada's Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice dynamics and the region's changing ...
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Buyers, suppliers, manufacturers and the curiously blue-lanyarded “Industry Affiliates” have been savouring the 2014 International CES, walking up and down the enormous venue to see high-concept and large-scale stands from major ...
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Tropical Cyclone Ian has been battered by wind shear and infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that the bulk of the precipitation has been pushed east and southeast of the storm's center. On January 13 at 0900 UTC/4 a.m. ...
Given North America's recent record-breaking cold with its thousands of cancelled airline flights, ice and aviation are very much in the news-especially the ice that cakes up on wings and tails, requiring trips to de-icing stations on the ...
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An LMU team has, for the first time, created volcanic lightning in the lab and captured it on film. The new findings may permit rapid characterization of ash clouds released by volcanic eruptions and improve forecasting of their behavior. ...
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A virtual-reality headset from Sony almost puts you inside a video by allowing you to widen your view when you turn your head up, down or side to side. Sony's $1,000 "Wearable HDTV" worked as intended in a demo. But a few quirks made me ...
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Amidst a drop in sales of clothing items, Japanese mail order company, Felissimo Corporation witnessed a slight dip in sales revenue in the nine months ended November 30, 2013. The company, which is engaged in the mail order sale of ...
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Poring through data from a large sky survey, astronomers have found more than 100 small, dwarf galaxies with characteristics indicating that they harbor massive black holes feeding on surrounding gas. The discovery confounds a common ...
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The year 2013 was a blessing for Pakistan’s textile industry, especially for the spinners. The country’s spinners made the most out of their competitiveness over India, courtesy good production of short staple fibre. Din Textile ...
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Gemini Planet Imager's first light image of Beta Pictoris b, a planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star, Beta Pictoris, is blocked in this image by a mask so its light doesn't interfere with the light of the planet. In addition to ...
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Ten years after NASA landed two rovers on Mars on a 90-day mission, one rover is still exploring, and the project has generated hundreds of thousands of images from the Martian surface. Now the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
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Americans are living longer than ever and their life expectancy is increasing every year, federal health officials reported Monday. People born in 2009 can expect to live 78.5 years. That's an increase from just a year before (when life ...
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