"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Scientists may have solved a key riddle about Antarctica - and you're not going to like the answer   (Chris MOONEY, Washington Post ; September 20, 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/20/scientists-may-have-just-solved-a-riddle-about-antarctica-and-youre-not-going-to-like-the-answer/?utm_term=.fdbfbec7aeb8 The Sirius Debate - Antarctic Glaciers (HAMBREY, 2014) http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacial-geology/the-sirius-debate/ Selected Publications: Wind blown Pliocene diatoms and East Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat (SCHERER et al. , 2016) http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12957.pdf The Mount Feather Diamicton of the Sirius Group:  an accumulation of indicators of Neogene Antarctic glacial and climatic history (WILSON et al., 2002) http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=geosciencefacpub Antarctic Neogene Landscapes - In Refrigerator or in Deep Freeze ( GSA Today ; April 1998) http://ww...

Number sickened in Hep A outbreak linked to scallops hits 252 ( Hawaii News Now Staff ; Update - September 7, 2016) http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/32680042/number-sickened-in-hep-a-outbreak-linked-to-scallops-hits-241 Hepatitis A Outbreak sickens 70; linked to imported frozen strawberries ( Healio Infectious Disease News ; September 2, 2016) http://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/gastrointestinal-infections/news/online/%7Ba127d24c-6b43-4201-8684-80ca14874325%7D/hepatitis-a-outbreak-sickens-70-linked-to-imported-frozen-strawberries Selected Research Articles: Processing Strategies to Inactivate Hepatitis A Virus in Food Products:  A Critical Review (SÁNCHEZ, 2015) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/1541-4337.12154/asset/crf312154.pdf?v=1&t=istxcb79&s=6d5488103c2ec769d96b322a8625ef3a77c755fb Large and Prolonged food-borne multistate Hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with the consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014 (SEVERI et al. ...

An unexplained event occurred in Earth's stratosphere for first time since records began (Aristos GEORGIOU, International Business Times UK ; September 5, 2016) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/unexplained-event-occurred-earths-stratosphere-first-time-since-records-began-1579734 Mysterious Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind Pattern (Sarah STANLEY,  EOS ; September 2, 2016) https://eos.org/research-spotlights/mysterious-anomaly-interrupts-stratospheric-wind-patter n Why the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation matters [Media Center, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ; March 26, 2015] http://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2015/why-quasi-biennial-oscillation-matters Selected Research Articles: The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (BALDWIN et al ., 2001) https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/related_files/baldwin0101.pdf The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO):  Some Points about the Terrestrial QBO and the Possibility of Related Phenomena in the So...

Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet (Seth BORENSTEIN, Associated Press ; August 31, 2016) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f8406b09b59946d9a4a95ecc768dd757/scientists-find-37-billion-year-old-fossil-oldest-yet Scientists find signs of life in Australia dating back 3.48 billion years (Greg BOTELHO, CNN ; November 14, 2013) http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/13/world/asia/australia-ancient-life/ Selected Research Articles: Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures Recording an Ancient Ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia (NOFFKE et al , 2013) http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/ast.2013.1030 Morphological record of oxygen photosynthesis in conical stromatolites (BOSAK et al , 2009) http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10939.full.pdf Evidence of Archean Life:  Stromatolites and Microfossils (SCHOPF et al , 2007) http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geology/courses/greenstein/paleo/schopf_07.pdf ...