Science news articles about 'wide swath'

... of the northern hemisphere. The bodies of these mammoths were found throughout a wide swathe of northern Siberia. Their dates of death span roughly 47,000 years, ranging ...

... landowners in developing nations not to cut down wide swaths of forested land to make way for agricultural uses. Tropical deforestation, the cutting and burning of trees ...

... atoms have energy levels that correspond to a very wide swath of frequencies, ranging from tens to hundreds of gigahertz. That makes standard spectroscopy costly and difficult ...

... advantage of the broad availability of Envisat ASAR wide swath acquisitions taken over the hurricane region, the corresponding sea surface roughness map, wind ...

See scenes of Hurricane Ike's devastation from a wide swath of coastal Louisiana and Texas, including flooding, fires and wind damage in Galveston and Houston.

... during a meningitis epidemic. Meningitis epidemics occur nearly every year across a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, dubbed the "Meningitis Belt". Outbreaks are caused by specific bacterial ...

... and cost-effective system for safeguarding and securing wide swathes of property. Prof. Yoram Shapira and his Tel Aviv University Faculty of Engineering ...

A potentially spectacular sight might be visible across a wide swath of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

A new study shows that wide swaths of America play video games, use broadband Internet and have cellphones and PCs.

... now allows it to study the Universe's across a wide swath of the light spectrum, from ultraviolet light all the way to near-infrared light. In addition, scientists ...

... heats up the disc, causing it to emit across a wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum. NGC 2623 is so bright in the infrared that it belongs to the group of very ...

... : If teachers' unions have no clear impact on such a wide swath of measures, why unionize at all? "One possible answer to this puzzle is teachers perceive organization increases ...

... group from Boston; a step that, if it pans out, could impact a wide swath of cancer drug development. The research is still in its early stages - mouse models - but the potential ...

... the structure of viruses themselves, and may potentially cure a wide swath of disease ranging from influenza to AIDS to Ebola. For all the complexity of the diseases they cause, viruses are very ...

... Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers' plots of the solar system--no other bodies were known to dwell beyond ...