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Story tips from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory — March 2011
When a Rhode-Island-sized ice chunk separates from Greenland, is the calving due to typical seasonal variations or a long-term warmer world? A project called the Scalable, Efficient, and Accurate Community Ice Sheet Model, or SEACISM, on the Jagua…
Dry lake reveals evidence of southwestern ‘megadroughts’
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, February 28, 2011 — There’s an old saying that if you don’t like the weather in New Mexico, wait five minutes. Maybe it should be amended to 10,000 years, according to new research.
In a letter published recently in the jo…
Building mental muscles through theoretical physics
INDIANAPOLIS — A grant from the D. J. Angus-Scientech Educational Foundation has made it possible for a student from a suburban Indianapolis high school to co-author, along with his mentor and two other scientists, a theoretical physics study in…
How hummingbirds fight the wind
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 21, 2010 — Hummingbirds rank among the world’s largest and most accomplished hovering animals, but how do they manage it in gusty winds?
A team of researchers at New Mexico State University, Los Alamos National L…
Plasma as a fast optical switch
Just like an electrical switch allows the flow of electricity into electrical circuits, relativistic transparency in plasma can act like a fast optical switch allowing the flow of light through otherwise opaque plasma. Modern day lasers, such as the…