News articles tagged with 'turbulence'
NIH-funded study finds new possible risk factor of heart disease
— 16 Feb 2011 04:59 | HealthAbnormal heart rate turbulence is associated with an increased risk of heart disease death in otherwise low-risk older individuals, according to a study funded by the National Heart,…
'Healthy' patients at high risk of cardiac death identified
— 16 Feb 2011 04:26 | HealthThe way the heart responds to an early beat is predictive of cardiac death, especially for people with no conventional markers of cardiovascular disease, according to new research from…
Wind turbines may benefit crops
— 18 Dec 2010 13:42 | EnvironmentWind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops…
Optimising large wind farms
— 24 Nov 2010 22:18 | TechnologyWind farms around the world are large and getting larger. Arranging thousands of wind turbines across many miles of land requires new tools that can balance cost and efficiency to provide…
Spacecraft will enable scientists to study space environment around moon, Earth
— 29 Oct 2010 14:03 | AstronomyTwo spacecraft are now beginning to study the moon's environment as part of NASA's ARTEMIS mission, whose principal investigator is Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA professor of Earth…
Cluster helps disentangle turbulence in the solar wind
— 5 Oct 2010 03:43 | AstronomyFrom Earth, the Sun looks like a calm, placid body that does little more than shine brightly while marching across the sky. Images from a bit closer, of course, show it's an unruly…
Mimicking fish and tailoring radar to warn of bridge peril
— 2 Sep 2010 15:25 | EnvironmentFloods cut down more bridges than fire, wind, earthquakes, deterioration, overloads and collisions combined, costing lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage…
Taking the twinkle out of the night sky
— 5 Aug 2010 10:19 | AstronomyIf you are like most people, you probably enjoy the twinkling of stars that blanket the sky on a clear summer night. If you are an astronomer, chances are you find it extremely annoying…
Eddies against the wall
— 28 Jul 2010 10:30 | PhysicsFluids experts writing in the journal Physics of Fluids, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, are projecting it will be many decades before we can accurately probe…
Levitating magnet may yield new approach to clean energy
— 24 Jan 2010 19:34 | TechnologyA new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some…