je.st
news
Tag: alter
Cities alter weather for thousands of miles downwind, study finds
2013-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Had a slushy ski trip to the mountains this winter? The nearest big city might be to blame. A region's weather can be swayed by the nearest big city, even if it's 1,000 miles away, according to new research. Scientists found that the heat streaming from major metropolitan areas can widen the jet stream and tweak other workings of the atmosphere, according to the study, published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Many of the northern hemisphere's cities lie directly under major atmospheric...
Tags: study
miles
cities
weather
Big Cities Could Alter Weather Of Areas Over 1,000 Miles Away
2013-01-28 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Large metropolitan areas could be drastically impacting the weather where you live, even if theyre hundreds of miles away, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO); the University of California, San Diego (UCSD); Florida State University (FSU); and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) claim in a new study. The researchers, who report their findings in the journal Nature Climate Change, discovered that the heat generated by day-to-day human activities in large...
SNPs Associated With Breast Cancer Risk Alter Binding Affinity For Pioneer Factor FOXA1
2013-01-27 17:05:57| Biotech - Topix.net
Dartmouth scientists showed that more than half of all the SNPs associated with breast cancer risk are located in distant regions and bound by FOXA1, a protein required for estrogen receptor-I function according to a paper published in the journal Nature Genetics .* Jason Moore, PhD, a Third Century Professor of genetics, director of the Institute ... (more)
Tags: risk
factor
cancer
alter
Alter Sells CVS-Leased Distro Center to Sentinel
2013-01-18 04:00:00| National Real Estate Investor
The Alter Group has sold a CVS-occupied distribution center near O'Hare to a New York firm.
Tags: center
alter
sells
sentinel
New 'Aaron's Law' aims to alter controversial computer fraud law
2013-01-16 03:31:25| CNET News.com
Silicon Valley congresswoman wants to change a 1984 law that was used to prosecute Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last week. [Read more]
Tags: computer
law
alter
fraud
Sites : [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] next »