Science news articles about 'white smoke'

... M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. As with whites, smoking was a significant risk factor for lung ... risk. This decreased risk was confined to those who had quit smoking more than ten years prior to diagnosis; these patients ...

... with a small black centre speeding toward Earth before burning out in a trail of lingering white smoke.Roland Herwig, spokesman for the US ...

... catastrophe is happening underground. "If you see smoke it is because the dried-out peat under the ground ... , the fire breaks to the surface, sending up puffs of white smoke. Scientists warn the wetlands are losing ...

... that has turned bone dry through mismanagement of water resources and is now on fire underground, white smoke now rising from areas where ...

... , such as reactor No. 3, which is still billowing white smoke or steam--a possible indication of a breach in the thick steel and concrete that contains the nuclear core ...

... as her subject: Space shuttle Endeavour soaring from a bank of clouds, its towering plume of white smoke lighting the azure sky ...

... last launch of AtlantisA silent blast of white smoke shot out from under the colossal main ... , the only evidence of its existence a thick trail of unmoving smoke that connected the launchpad to the sky.Defying poor ...

Progress during the papal conclave will be measured in the colors of the smoke that will emerge after the voting, but just how those colors are made remains a mystery.

... telltale release of white smoke and an hour of suspenseful fanfare, Vatican leaders on Wednesday announced the new head of the Roman ...

... white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City last month and a new pope ...