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The Earthquake Monitor That Could Have Given Nepal a 20 Second Warning Published Apr 27, 2015 at 12:09 PM EDT Updated Mar 27, 2016 at 6:15 AM EDT People gather on a road as traffic is affected by a landslide caused by an earthquake, in Kurintar, Nepal April 27, 2015. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nepal's record of earthquakes dates to at least the 13th century, with significant

Back in 2150 BC, Emperor Yu sealed his place in China’s history of eminent rulers by controlling the Yellow River’s annual flood, saving waterlogged crops. Today China’s rulers face the opposite problem: It’s water scarcity that threatens farms. So instead of the Yellow River, the Chinese government is controlling the rain. It does that by “cloud-seeding,” the colloquial term for rocket-launching

Back in 2150 BC, Emperor Yu sealed his place in China’s history of eminent rulers by controlling the Yellow River’s annual flood, saving waterlogged crops. Today China’s rulers face the opposite problem: It’s water scarcity that threatens farms. So instead of the Yellow River, the Chinese government is controlling the rain. It does that by “cloud-seeding,” the colloquial term for rocket-launching

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Definition: “Powerful HF transmitter (2.8 to ­10 MHz) that induces controlled temporary modification to the electron temperature at desired altitude”. What does that mean? Heater antenna arrays pump electricity from the ground into space. This artificial electrical alteration of our ionosphere creates many different effects. Scientists doing these experiments do so without any oversight. These exp

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For the first time in at least a decade, portions of the nation's three largest metro areas — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — were all under heat wave alerts Friday morning. Daryl Herzmann, a scientist at Iowa State University, said reliable records for such data only go back to October 2005, meaning the last time all three were under such an alert could go back much farther. Other big cities

Definition: “Powerful HF transmitter (2.8 to ­10 MHz) that induces controlled temporary modification to the electron temperature at desired altitude”. What does that mean? Heater antenna arrays pump electricity from the ground into space. This artificial electrical alteration of our ionosphere creates many different effects. Scientists doing these experiments do so without any oversight. These exp

Protesters marching to the United Nations base housing Nepalese peacekeepers in Mirebalais, Haiti, on Oct. 29, 2010.Credit...Associated Press For the first time since a cholera epidemic believed to be imported by United Nations peacekeepers began killing thousands of Haitians nearly six years ago, the office of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has acknowledged that the United Nations played a role in