Flu peaks in temperate zones when the humidity is low. In the tropics, it surges when it's humid and rainy.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Natural Gas Dethrones King Coal As Power Companies Look To Future
American Electric Power's natural gas-burning plant in Dresden, Ohio, is
one of the energy company's new investments in alternatives to
coal-burning plants.
Michael Williamson/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Starbucks Admits Its Strawberry Drinks Are Colored with Crushed Parasitic Beetles
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http://inhabitat.com/starbucks-admits-its-strawberry-drinks-are-colored-with-crushed-parasitic-beetles/
Bad News for Big Bird
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Humans have tried to save the California
condor, but a new study reveals that lead poisoning remains a threat to
the endangered species.
Credit: Susan Haig, U.S. Geological Survey
Watch Liquid Bounce Off Amazing New Superomniphobic Material - Video
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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/video-liquid-bounces-new-superomniphobic-material
Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics - YouTube
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http://loyalkng.com/2011/03/31/quadrocopter-ball-juggling-eth-flying-machine-area-by-mark-muller-sergei-lupashin-raffaello-dandrea/
Bees Learn the Electric Buzz of Flowers
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On the right-hand halves of flowers, a dusting of electrically charged
particles (color in adjacent rectangle) reveals natural patterns. Bees
can sense at least simple patterns in floral electrical charges, new
research says.
Credit: D. Clarke et al./Science 2013
Steve Spangler Shoots the Audience With Smoke! -YouTube
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Steve Spangler and Ellen DeGeneres make giant smoke rings as part of a demonstration… (from Steve Spangler/ )
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-11-09/lifestyle/35506608_1_science-experiments-magic
Friday, March 1, 2013
BP Oil Spill Clean-Up Tech - YouTube
http://thegrio.com/2013/01/29/judge-oks-4b-bp-oil-spill-criminal-settlement/
Slick Solution: How Microbes Will Clean Up the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
MIGHTY MICROBES:
Tiny bacteria, such
as Alcanivorax borkumensis pictured here, will ultimately clean up the
ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Image: Courtesy of Heimholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI)
Oil Spills and Marine Life - YouTube
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/cleaning-oil-spill1.htm
Oil Spills in the Ocean and Oil Pollution - YouTube
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/cleaning-oil-spill.htm
Oil from Deepwater Horizon Disaster Entered Food Chain in the Gulf of Mexico
Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico.
(Credit: Photo by James Pierson.)
Research, Responses for Future Oil Spills: Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon
A view of the oil source as seen during an overflight on May 20, 2010.
(Credit: NOAA)
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