Hospital superbugs are being unleashed inside a bunker built by scientists exploring how the killer infections are spread. The new facility at Bradford University is one of the largest biological test chambers in the world, experts said.
Exact replicas of hospital wards will be created inside the secure bunker.
The £175,000 project, funded [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Humid superbugs
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
New NASA AIRS Data to Aid Weather, Climate Research
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
There’s an old saying, “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” When it comes to global climate change, it’s not hard to spot the “trees” — they’re in the news headlines nearly every day. To see the “forest,” however–that is, to gain a more complete understanding of the climate variations we’re seeing–scientists use satellite [...]
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microclimate monitoring system
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
A portable and user-friendly weather monitoring system based on the PIC16F876 microcontroller is described. This instrument measures three parameters: temperature in the range from ?10 to +70 °C within ±1 °C using an LM335 temperature sensor, wind speed from 0 to 10 m/s within ±0.1 m/s using a heated bead thermistor, and solar radiation from 0 to 1000 W/m2 within ±10 W/m2 using a solar cell. These [...]
Raining bunnies
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
Something odd is happening to the weather along hundreds of miles of bunny fence in Southwestern Australia.
Two scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville are part of an international team that will spend August studying why most of the clouds that form in that region form over the native vegetation north and east of [...]
Origin of atmosphere…
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 29 (UPI) — U.S. researchers have discovered what might be evidence of the origin of Earth’s breathable atmosphere, similar to the planet’s current oxygen-rich air.
Ohio State University geologists and colleagues said the study suggested upheavals in the Earth’s crust initiated a kind of reverse-greenhouse effect 500 million years ago, cooling the world’s [...]
What causes rain…
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
The creation of rain is the result of a variety of physical processes. These processes influence each other and play out both at an extremely small scale (several micrometres) and on a very large one (100 kilometres). The spatial scale of weather models is a few kilometres, and physical processes which occur at a smaller [...]
Climate is too complex for accurate predictions
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
* 19:00 25 October 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
* Jim Giles
Climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, according to a new study.
The result will provide ammunition to those who argue not enough is known about global warming to warrant taking action.
The [...]
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Preservation of treasures ‘miraculous’
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
Koki Okamoto / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
Shoso-in in Nara has successfully preserved many precious artifacts, Buddhist ceremonial articles and other items with international flavors dating back to the Nara period (710-794).
The term “Shoso” originally referred to an official warehouse at governmental offices and large temples nationwide during the Nara period and the Heian [...]
Global warming opinion
Posted by GBoyd in October 30th 2007
Ian Sample in London
October 30, 2007
CUTTING greenhouse gases and switching to sustainable development are unlikely to prevent disasters caused by climate change, one of the world’s respected environmentalists has warned.
Professor James Lovelock, an independent environmental scientist, claims that even the most pessimistic outcomes predicted by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fail to recognise [...]
Labview weather with .net
Posted by GBoyd in October 27th 2007
Downloads
Filename: getweather.zip
Requirements: View
The attached GetWeather VI shows how to call a .NET Web service in LabVIEW 7.0. You can use the .NET functions to call public and private .NET assemblies. You also can use the .NET framework to create assemblies that communicate with .NET Web services. The GetWeather VI calls a .NET assembly that [...]