Science news articles about 'time of year'

  • Ten Times the Turbine

    Sky Serpant Cost to Develop: $250,000 Time: 9 years Prototype | | | | | Product Today’s largest wind farms are the size of small towns, made up of turbines 30 stories ...
  • Exercisers face the challenge of dark times

    This time of year tries runners' souls as much as their soles, and the same goes for cyclists and walkers. Really, almost anyone who exercises outdoors in the fall and winter has to deal ...
  • Wikipedia seeks $6M -- 3 times last year's amount

    ... appeal to donors Wednesday, seeking $6 million to cover the costs of the volunteer-created Internet encyclopedia. That figure would be a threefold increase from what the campaign raised last year.
  • It's that time of year: Medicare shifts

    This is the time of the year when we give thanks. And also talk about Medicare. The two topics are not necessarily related.
  • Timing is everything when it comes to childhood asthma

    ... season have a greater risk of developing childhood asthma than children born at any other time of year, according to new research from Vanderbilt University Medical Centre. In the Tennessee Asthma ...
  • Later school start times may improve sleep in adolescents and decrease risk of auto accidents

    ... filled out the same questionnaire. School times during Year One were 7:30 a.m. for high ... auto accidents after the change in school start times to improved vigilance, as the students were able to get ...
  • Science's breakthrough of the year: Cellular reprogramming

    ... news editor Robert Coontz. Two years ago, in experiments with mice, researchers showed ... order. Exoplanets – Seeing Is Believing: For the first time this year, astronomers directly observed planets ...
  • Making Time for Science

    ... teach science using hands-on techniques, to limited time; I think this is a major missed opportunity ... eliminate themselves. I can't remember a time this year when we've had problems during science ...
  • It's daylight science time

    It’s that time of year again, when most Americans lose an hour’s sleep setting their clocks ahead. Here are answers to your questions about the time switch - and about sleep.
  • Advance Cuts Brain Mapping Time from Years to Months

    ... Moran Eye Center and the University of Colorado at Boulder report technical advances that have reduced the time it takes to process high-speed "color" ultrastructure mapping of brain regions down to a ...
  • Mars Orbiter malfunctions for fourth time

    PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- NASA says its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has put itself into safe mode for the fourth time this year, but is maintaining communications.
  • The Future Will Be Tastier: Scientists Discover Key To Year-Round Soft Shell Crabs

    ... , soft shell crabs always come out delicious. Unfortunately, this delicacy is only available a few times a year. But hopefully not for long. Scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have ...
  • Skin flaps deliver cancer-fighting therapy, ASPS study reveals

    ... tremendous success. Since skin flaps are used thousands of times each year in cancer patients, this may potentially open up an entirely new area in plastic surgery and bring the ...
  • The Natural Artificial Foot

    K3 Promoter Cost to Develop: $100,000 Time: 8 years Prototype | | | | | Product Gordon Link, a diabetic and foot amputee, is not looking to climb Mount Everest, run a ...
  • A Lifesaving Beacon for Miners

    InSeT System Cost to Develop: $475,000 Time: 2 years Prototype | | | | | Product In January 2006, an explosion rocked West Virginia’s Sago coal mine, trapping 13 miners. ...

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