Have you ever watched a dog drink water and wondered how he was able to quench his thirst from what appeared to be some rather sloppy and haphazard actions? Well, it turns out the parched pooches know exactly what they’re doing, and according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Tech, they’re actually executing […]
Virginia Tech Researchers Learn How a Dog Drinks Water
Posted December 14th, 2015 at 3:13 pm (UTC-4)
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Rising Levels of Human-Caused Water Vapor in Troposphere will Intensify Climate Change Projections
Posted July 28th, 2014 at 7:01 pm (UTC-4)
When it comes to greenhouse gases that contribute most to global warming, most people think of substances such as carbon dioxide, methane or even hydrofluorocarbons. But did you know that, for a while now, scientists have considered the vapor of the most important ingredient in sustaining life on Earth – water – as one of […]
New Dating System Could Reveal Secrets of Earth’s Ancient Climate
Posted April 21st, 2014 at 7:51 pm (UTC-4)
Scientists have a new tool in the quest to learn more about Earth’s ancient climate, including the mechanisms that plunged our planet into and out of ice ages. The new tool is a scientific technique called radiometric krypton dating, which recently allowed researchers to accurately determine the age of a 120,000-year-old Antarctic ice core sample. […]
Move Over Cleopatra, Chinese May Have Loved Cats Before Ancient Eyptians
Posted December 18th, 2013 at 5:17 pm (UTC-4)
Researchers in China and Missouri have traced the origins of today’s domesticated cat back 5,300 years to an ancient Neolithic Chinese agricultural village located in the modern-day Shaanxi Province. Like in the old Mother Goose nursery tale “This is the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack […]
Cosmic Impact May Have Caused Prehistoric ‘Big Freeze’
Posted September 3rd, 2013 at 7:39 pm (UTC-4)
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Scientists say they may have found a link between a dramatic climate shift nearly 13,000 years ago and an asteroid or comet that struck the Canadian province of Quebec. Researchers at Dartmouth College say the comet/asteroid strike took place at the beginning of a global cooling event known as the Younger Dryas stadial or the […]
Flu Forecasts Could Soon Join Weathercasts
Posted November 30th, 2012 at 8:10 pm (UTC-4)
Imagine that one day soon when you tune in to your favorite radio or TV station for the latest weather forecast, you’re given a flu forecast as well. Adapting techniques used in modern weather prediction, scientists at Columbia University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have come up with a way to produce localized […]