Since 1988, this meteorological breakthrough has nearly doubled tornado warning times, giving communities crucial minutes to seek safety. You can demonstrate it at home with a simple experiment!
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Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...
Earlier this month, a Food and Drug Administration panel concluded that a common decongestant ingredient used in drugs like Sudafed and NyQuil doesn’t work. The panel agreed that while the ingredient, ...
A new study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, mountain habitats from refuges into traps. Think of it as the 'butterfly effect' ...
In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...
Geochemical reactions from thawing permafrost are leaching toxic metals into rivers throughout the Brooks Range in northern ...
The impact of scientific research extends far beyond the laboratory. Breakthroughs like insulin and innovations like the ...