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- Wind Speeds Dropping by Up to 15%
- What Killed the Victims at Pompeii?
- Kenya Geothermal Project
- New Species of Dinosaur with Powerful Hands Discovered
- Sounds and Marine Mammals
| Wind Speeds Dropping by Up to 15% Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:44 PM PDT National Geographic has a story about decreasing wind speeds across the globe. The study analyzes 30 years worth of data, citing drops in average annual wind speed by as much as 15%. |
| What Killed the Victims at Pompeii? Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:42 PM PDT Since the discovery of Pompeii, many archaeologists believed that the people who died there suffocated under a heavy ash fall from Mount Vesuvius. Others believe that they died in a matter of seconds from the intense heat of pyroclastic density currents. A research paper on the pyroclastic density currents with temperature estimates through the city can be seen at Earth-Prints.org. |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:40 PM PDT The demand for electricity in Kenya is growing at a rate of about seven percent per year. A new geothermal steam power plant will tap the country’s estimated 10,000 MW of steam resource. |
| New Species of Dinosaur with Powerful Hands Discovered Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:32 PM PDT A new species of dinosaur, Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis, has been discovered in Arizona. This species sports an unusual characteristic: a pair of powerful, clawed hands. |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2010 10:01 PM PDT Researchers recently tagged and tracked several species of marine mammals in a study that monitored how the mammals responded to various types of sounds – such as naval sonar, which some researchers believe is harmful to the mammals. Related: What does an earthquake sound like? |
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