... have found that during the hours before sunrise, freeway air pollution extends much further than previously thought. Pollutants were found 1.5 miles from I-10 in California during early morning hours.
... gain. The normal-weight rats ran significantly more than their bulkier peers, logging in about two and a half miles a day on their wheels, and kept off weight proportionally to how much they ran. The ...
... intense pressure -- similar to what someone would experience more than a half-mile beneath the ocean's surface -- stimulates cartilage cells to grow new tissue with nearly all of the ...
... is essentially a giant glacier 60 miles wide and one-half mile thick. The data show that ... his colleagues in 2001-2003 at a location about 500 miles away from the ice stream.
"At first we didn't ...
... the birds there. Then he'd drive another half mile, repeat the process and continue until he had stopped 50 times in 24.5 miles for the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Trying to finish ...
... migrate at night, when most bird migration occurs. But nighttime tracking of tiny flying objects a quarter mile to a half mile up is no easy task. They have used stationary light beams, ...
... be measured only with very precise instruments. For example, though the Parkfield instruments were more than a half mile below ground, the setup was sensitive enough to measure fluctuations in air ...
... of Maine. The local receivers, about the size of a standard flashlight and spaced about a half mile apart, act much like the EZ pass system at highway toll booths - when a fish ...
... keep tabs on their loved ones by phone when they're apart, and now new research shows elephants do nearly the same thing with rumble vocalizations that can transmit over one and a half miles.
... one of the features we examined is three times larger than the city of Los Angeles, and up to one-half-mile thick, and there are many more," said John W. Holt of The University of Texas at Austin's ...
... event. The nationally renowned space museum and tourist attraction constructs a punishing course - a half-mile of hills and craters simulating the lunar surface - on the looping sidewalks and paths ...
Forty feet below the surface of Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse Bay, a mysterious pattern of stones can be seen rising from an otherwise sandy half-mile of lake floor.
... was funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
The scientists examined material from a half-mile-deep core drilled in the Pilbara region of northwest Australia. They looked specifically at ...
... One-third of the children walked to and from school. Parks located within approximately one half mile had the strongest association with walking in this age group. A greater number of parks were ...
... aged 8-10, for every additional park located within a half-mile of their home, girls were twice as likely to walk to school. Boys were 60 percent more likely to walk in leisure ...
