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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:43:20 -0600 (CST)
Subject: White Roofs May Successfully Cool Cities
White Roofs May Successfully Cool Cities
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool off cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, results of a new study indicate.
The research, the first computer modeling study to simulate the impacts of white roofs on urban areas worldwide, suggests there may be merit to the idea of turning roofs white.
But the study team, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., cautions that there are ...
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:52:27 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle
Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle
Through an expedition to the Gobi Desert of China, scientists have solved the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds--independent of birds.
The discovery extends the fossil record of the family Alvarezsauridae--a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs with a large claw on the hand and very short, powerful arms--back 63 million years, further distancing the group from birds on the evolutionary tree.
Until now, there was no direct evidence that dinosaurs of ...
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