.INSIDE SCIENCE RESEARCH---PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
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TO OUR READERS: PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE has been prepared by the Media and Government Relations division of the American Institute of Physics. Since its founding almost 18 years ago, PNU has aimed to provide science journalists with breaking news from physics journals and meetings. PNU has now joined forces with another AIP news service, Inside Science News Service (ISNS). ISNS reports on breaking news and the science behind current affairs and is distributed to newspapers, to reporters who do not normally cover science, and to science journalists. PNU will now transition into "Inside Science Research --Physics News Update," the research section of this broader AIP news service. We hope that the readers of PNU will appreciate this effort to keep physics in the news by preparing reports suitable for a wider audience, a step taken in order to address the increasing scarcity of science reporters and science sections at newspapers. Some of the news items presented here will be longer than before and will provide a more general background. We invite reader comments on this evolutionary development at the following address: insidescience@aip.org
WORLD ON FIRE. Every summer, hundreds of wildfires burn millions of acres across the United States. The Santa Ana wind drives fire across Southern California, and forest fires fill the skies over the Western U.S. with smoke. NASA has turned its high-tech eyes toward the fires in a new website called "Fire and Smoke," unveiled just last week at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/index.html. The site, with its stunning images of the world on fire, is an interactive combination of images from NASA satellites, aircraft and other research tools. The images are so good, and the fires so widespread, that the Earth begins to look like something out of a high-quality end-of-the-world science fiction movie. You can watch the smoke plumes drift for hundreds of miles from the California fires, or switch to a NASA image of the carbon monoxide being generated by those fires. There are images of fires in Greece, biomass burning in South America, and atmospheric particles from fires in Alaska. There is even a link to a NASA Goddard site that shows all of the past year's fires on a rotating globe.
TO OUR READERS: PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE has been prepared by the Media and Government Relations division of the American Institute of Physics. Since its founding almost 18 years ago, PNU has aimed to provide science journalists with breaking news from physics journals and meetings. PNU has now joined forces with another AIP news service, Inside Science News Service (ISNS). ISNS reports on breaking news and the science behind current affairs and is distributed to newspapers, to reporters who do not normally cover science, and to science journalists. PNU will now transition into "Inside Science Research --Physics News Update," the research section of this broader AIP news service. We hope that the readers of PNU will appreciate this effort to keep physics in the news by preparing reports suitable for a wider audience, a step taken in order to address the increasing scarcity of science reporters and science sections at newspapers. Some of the news items presented here will be longer than before and will provide a more general background. We invite reader comments on this evolutionary development at the following address: insidescience@aip.org
WORLD ON FIRE. Every summer, hundreds of wildfires burn millions of acres across the United States. The Santa Ana wind drives fire across Southern California, and forest fires fill the skies over the Western U.S. with smoke. NASA has turned its high-tech eyes toward the fires in a new website called "Fire and Smoke," unveiled just last week at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/index.html. The site, with its stunning images of the world on fire, is an interactive combination of images from NASA satellites, aircraft and other research tools. The images are so good, and the fires so widespread, that the Earth begins to look like something out of a high-quality end-of-the-world science fiction movie. You can watch the smoke plumes drift for hundreds of miles from the California fires, or switch to a NASA image of the carbon monoxide being generated by those fires. There are images of fires in Greece, biomass burning in South America, and atmospheric particles from fires in Alaska. There is even a link to a NASA Goddard site that shows all of the past year's fires on a rotating globe.
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Another resource for you: http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=physics
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