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MIT’s D “double bubble” series design concept is based on a modified “tube-and-wing” structure that has a very wide fuselage to provide extra lift. The aircraft would be used for domestic flights to carry 180 passengers in a coach cabin roomier than that of a Boeing 737-800. Brussels, Belgium — Billboards of European Health Commissioner John Dalli and President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso depicted as chefs cooking up ‘GE recipes for disaster’ were placed around Brussels today. This is part of Greenpeace’s response to the controversial Commission approval of GE potato cultivation in Europe – the first such approval since 1998. [...] Iceland volcano: Pitt researcher compiles first high-res images; plume receding but internal heat upPITTSBURGH—High-resolution visible and thermal infrared images captured by a joint NASA-Japanese satellite sensor and compiled by University of Pittsburgh volcanologist Michael Ramsey provide the first clear glimpse of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull that has disrupted air travel worldwide since it began erupting April 14. [...] Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei: A frog with no lungs, a “ninja” slug firing love darts at its mate, and the world’s longest insect are among new species discovered in the three years since the Heart of Borneo conservation plan was drawn up by the three governments with jurisdiction over the world’s third largest island. New WWF report Borneo’s New World: Newly Discovered Species in the Heart of Borneo details 123 new species discovered since the February 2007 agreement by Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia to conserve 220,000 km2 of irreplaceable tropical rainforest, designated the Heart of Borneo (HoB). [...] Global warming is a hot topic, and it’s causing concern for scientists studying winter annuals in the Sonoran Desert. While desert winters have become warmer and drier over the years, climate changes have pushed the arrival of winter rains later in the year, forcing winter annual plants like the curvenut combseed (Pectocarya recurvata) to emerge later when temperatures are colder. In 1982, Larry Venable, an ecologist at the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, began a study at the Desert Laboratory on nearby Tumamoc Hill in order to investigate adaptive “bet-hedging” in plants. [...] A chance meeting and a common interest in tectonic faults took Cristiano Collettini and Chris Marone to the Isle of Elba to sample a tectonic fault that breaks most of the rules of fault mechanics. Their work reveals why these faults slip. In May 2008, Cristiano and I were at a workshop in the Italian Apennines to discuss a possible drilling project into the low-angle, normal faults (ones that occur when the Earth’s crust is stretched) in that region. The faults in that region are an enigma because standard analysis shows that they shouldn’t exist. [...] Earlier snowmelt, altered water supplies, result On spring winds, something wicked this way comes. At least for the Colorado Rocky Mountains and their ecosystems, as well as people who depend on snowmelt from these mountains as a regional source of water. “More than 80 percent of sunlight falling on fresh snow is reflected back to space,” says Tom Painter, Director of the University of Utah’s Snow Optics Laboratory. “But sprinkle some dark particles on the snow and that number drops dramatically.” That’s exactly what’s happening in Colorado’s Photo showing zebra stripes of dust and snow on the snow surface in Colorado mountains. high peaks. [...] Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner – who suggest that the Earth has entered a new age of geological time. The Age of Aquarius? Not quite – It’s the Anthropocene Epoch, say the scientists writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. (web issue March 29; print issue April 1) [...] Fragments of plastic in the ocean are not just unsightly but potentially lethal to marine life. Coastal microbes may offer a smart solution to clean up plastic contamination, according to Jesse Harrison presenting his research at the Society for General Microbiology’s spring meeting in Edinburgh today. [...] |
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