Hurricane
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Hurricanes and water go hand in hand. But researchers from Purdue University and MIT have now made a surprising discovery by tweaking a hurricane simulation – the storms can occur under much colder and drier conditions than previously thought, which may be common on other planets.
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Canadian construction firm JD Composites has completed its first concept home, made from about 612,000 recycled plastic bottles. Beach House is located in Nova Scotia, Canada, and is not only a great example of how recycled plastic can be put to good use, but it's also hurricane resistant.
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According to a newly published paper, powerful solar storms were responsible for communication outages in 2017, as professionals and volunteers alike worked to provide emergency aid in the wake of the devastation caused by hurricanes Irma, Katia and Jose.
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NOAA flew a scientific aircraft right through Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Now, the researchers have reported their findings, including the detection of a beam of antimatter being blasted towards the ground, accompanied by flashes of x-rays and gamma rays.
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The Atlantic’s biggest hurricanes are getting stronger more quickly than they were 30 years ago. And they’re now gaining power in different parts of the Atlantic than was previously the case. It’s mainly down to a mysterious ocean cycle which may be coming to the end of a period of warming.
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ScienceDepending on where they occur, tropical cyclones are also known as hurricanes or typhoons. No matter what you call them, though, they're caused by the evaporation of warm ocean surface water. Norwegian scientists are now looking at stopping them, by using bubbles to cool that water down.
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Those familiar with Margot Krasojević know not to expect a dull, run of the mill design from the experimental architect and her latest work doesn't disappoint. The Self-Excavation Hurricane House would use the power of the wind to dig itself into the ground when a hurricane strikes.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first batch of images taken by the GOES-16 satellite, including a breath-taking image of Earth's full disk.
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ScienceResearchers are developing a system to predict the path and intensity of hurricanes by harvesting data from inside the storm itself.
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Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have completed a successful test flight of their Coyote Unmanned Aircraft System, a drone designed to retrieve important data from the eye of the storm to improve hurricane forecasting.
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Lots of houses nowadays are designed to minimize the amount of energy they use and to generate their own electricity. Fewer, though, are designed to withstand extreme coastal weather conditions as well. The high-tech and feature-loaded Sure House does all of this.
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ScienceA freshly built indoor tank designed to study category five storms is now open for business at the University of Miami. As the only one of its kind in the world, it is hoped to bring a new understanding of these destructive superstorms.
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