Monthly Archives: May 2010

Coral and Global Warming: Diversity in Some Coral Populations May Affect Their Survival

An international team of marine biologists has found that existing diversity in some coral populations may significantly influence their response to extreme temperature disturbances — such as those predicted from climate warming. The team demonstrated that natural selection acting on … Continue reading

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Climate Change and Mountain Building affects Mammal Diversity Patterns

If you travel from the tropics to the poles,  you’ll notice that the diversity of mammals declines with distance from the equator. Move from lowland to mountains, and you’ll see diversity increase as the landscape becomes more varied. Ecologists have … Continue reading

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Amazing Image of Icelandic Volcano Ash

The ash-cloud image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows a thick plume of ash blowing east and then south from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Clouds bracket the edges of the scene, but the dark … Continue reading

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Intelligent robot porter system using LiDAR

Researchers from Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are creating autonomous robots that use LiDAR in a new way. Rather than having a robot simply follow a one-step process of LiDAR measurement, the new process has two steps.The first step is … Continue reading

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