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Hurricanes?Can We Move Them Somewhere Else?

September 14, 2005
After Katrina, scientists are trying to learn how to prevent hurricanes from making landfall by calming them down offshore or steering them off course. Hurricanes are created when tropical storms pass over warm water, and due to global warming, there?s... continued

An Amazing New Way to Dry Clothes

September 14, 2005
Newswise - Clothes dryers use up a lot of valuable energy, but most of us don't have a place to hang our wet clothes out on a line. But if clothes were less wet when they went into the dryer,... continued

West Nile Perspective

September 14, 2005
On The Daily Show recently, Jon Stewart made jokes about how Americans tend to get worked up over new threats to their health, while they are comfortable with old threats that are much more dangerous. Maybe a little perspective is... continued

Katrina Impact on Distant Crops

September 13, 2005
Newswise - Hurricane Katrina could lead to smaller crop yields in corn and soybean fields in Indiana. How can a gulf coast hurricane effect crops so far away? It's because these farmers have lost access to shipping routes along the... continued

Major Air Route Closed–No Reason Given

September 13, 2005
A temporary flight restriction has been issued by the FAAfor a major North Pacific air corridor, covering air routesR-222, R-580 and A-590. The restriction covers the datesSeptember 10-15. The cloture of these major routes is highlyunusual, is said to be... continued

Superbugs Spreading in Food

September 13, 2005
E. coli bacteria is found in food that hasn't been adequately refrigerated or has been mishandled during preparation, often by people who don't wash their hands after visiting the bathroom. It gives most people no more than a stomach ache,... continued

How LA Caught Potential Terrorists

September 12, 2005
Intelligence experts have intercepted recent al-Qaeda threats against Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. Since these are transmitted between members of the terrorist group in coded images, they must be carefully analyzed for meaning. Before September 11, 2001, investigators later found... continued

Same Mistakes in Iraq & New Orleans

September 11, 2005
Folding FEMA into Homeland Security may have made it inevitable that the same mistakes were made in both places, whether we are battling insurgents or the weather. Vice President Cheney's former corporation Halliburton has been put in charge of housing... continued

No Interest in Sex

September 10, 2005
A small number of adults have absolutely no interest in sex?in the UK, anyway. A psychologist looked at a poll of 18,00 people taken in 1994 in the UK, asking people about their sex lives, which contained the statement, "I've... continued

Can Four Million Kids All be Sick?

September 10, 2005
ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) is being diagnosed in so many children, that over four million children in the US are now officially classified as having it. The highest rates of diagnosis are among Caucasian children from educated families, probably because... continued