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Global Temperature Report: December 2013

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If recent news that University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers observed the largest gamma ray burst ever has you nervous about getting blasted into extinction, the UAH researchers say chances of that are exceedingly rare.

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Global Temperature Report: November 2013.

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An intrepid atmospheric science department team from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is tracking and measuring lake-effect snowstorms from the southern banks of Lake Ontario, all in the name of better future weather forecasting.

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Dr. Richard Miller, a high-energy astrophysicist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is leading a team effort to apply new techniques to better characterize hydrogen, or water, at the moon's poles and map its distribution.

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A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming recorded during the past 50 years, according to new research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

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Global Temperature Report: October 2013

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A University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) aerospace engineering undergraduate student’s idea for a new, more efficient way to package rocket engines has won him and two UAH professors a recent patent.

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Using technology found in cell phones, inexpensive sensors being tested by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) at Monte Sano State Park might one day soon save lives by giving advance warning of deadly landslides in at-risk areas.

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Theoretical modeling work by Department of Mathematical Sciences Chair Dr. Jia Li at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) can provide researchers useful tools in their battle against disease-carrying mosquitos.

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A senior design class and the Office of Technology Commercialization at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are working with an 89-year old former von Braun rocket team member on a device that will make semi trucks turn better.

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A new study of an April 2011 tornado outbreak apparently affirms some new theories about factors that might enhance tornado development.

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September temperatures (preliminary)

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A space-based laser system proposed to NASA by University of Alabama in Huntsville researchers could be a cost-effective way to nudge small asteroids away from a collision course with Earth.

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A University of Alabama in Huntsville graduate student and a recent UAH doctoral graduate are exploring surprising data from Voyager 1’s crossing of the heliopause into the interstellar medium of our galaxy.

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UAH graduate student John Bennewitz will be a visiting lecturer at Space-X in Hawthorne, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 27, to talk about his success in applying band-limited white noise to neutralize combustion instabilities.

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Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade.

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Getting immersed in the community and fostering a community atmosphere among customers aids a retailer’s bottom line, according to research co-authored by a University of Alabama in Huntsville associate professor of marketing.

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A device developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville has become a valuable tool in researchers’ quest to determine how lightning is spawned, to map strikes and to better predict severe weather.

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Two University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professors who last year sent tremors through the research world with findings that some academic journals engage in editorial coercion now have a new grant to expand their research.

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Patented at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, (UAH), a smart pill bottle that notifies you to take your medications or reminds you if you missed a dose could be en route to medicine cabinets as soon as 2015.

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Global Temperature Report: July 2013.

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Three new solar modeling developments at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are bringing scientists closer to being able to predict the occurrence and timing of coronal mass ejections from the sun.

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Scientists can study how supercell thunderstorms work by using the data from just one Doppler radar unit and an analysis technique called synthetic dual-Doppler (SDD) that normally requires two.

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New areas of extragalactic study may emerge from research by University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) astrophysicists using data from the Chandra Space Telescope to conclude that baryons making up all visible matter – once thought to be missing from clusters – are present in the expected ratios in large, luminous clusters.

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Global Temperature Report: June 2013.

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You are what you eat – and so are your offspring. And in the title bout featuring protein versus sugar, protein is the winner. That’s what a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) found while studying the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as part of a multi-institutional team.

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With billions of dollars of past space research at risk of being lost forever, 85-year-old Dr. Charles Lundquist of the University of Alabama in Huntsville sleuths for past research from the Army, NASA and private papers for the UAH Archives.

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For the first time, visually impaired mathematics students will be able to remotely communicate with teachers in math’s precise written language by using a system developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in cooperation with gh LLC.

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Dr. Carmen Scholz of The University of Alabama in Huntsville has been working on the customized synthesis of biocompatible polymers that can coat sensors that are then implanted into the body to cloak them from the immune system.

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Begun over 20 years ago at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to study medicinal properties of Costa Rican plants, the Natural Products Drug Discovery Group has branched out to Africa, Australia, the Bahamas, Yemen and Cuba.

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Global Temperature Report: May 2013.

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What if you could save farmers money, protect the quality of the water in a watershed, help keep invasive plants out of waterways, protect biodiversity and prevent potential oxygen-depletion mass fish kills all with one predictive tool?

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With campus safety and security in mind, engineering students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are working with the campus police department to perfect unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies for use on-campus.

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Blending the healthcare profession and systems engineering, two professors at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are applying manufacturing efficiency systems to healthcare settings to promote better patient satisfaction.

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Global Temperature Report: April 2013.

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University of Alabama in Huntsville assistant biology professor Dr. Leland Cseke and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology researcher Dr. Jian Han have joined forces to identify invasive plant species that are sneaking into the US.

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A company partnership between The University of Alabama in Huntsville and chemical engineering professor Dr. Krishnan Chittur is in the design phase for a device that can provide physicians one-hour pathogen testing capabilities.

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New research indicates that teams improve their performance when they meet in a structured environment in which each member reflects on his or her role and how it relates to the overall performance of the team.

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A rotary fuel delivery valve developed by a UAHuntsville team led by Dr. James Blackmon just might help us get manned space flights out of our immediate neighborhood one day.

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UAH climate dataset offers new products. Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade.

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A wireless personal health monitoring system using smartphones to upload data via the Internet will revolutionize the U.S. healthcare industry, its pioneering creators say.

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Engineers will be able to design better fuel systems for everything from motorcycles to rockets faster and more inexpensively because of a mathematical fuels model developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntville) has been selected by NASA to participate in a mission designed to investigate the highest energy cosmic rays, single sub-atomic particles, each with as much kinetic energy as a major league pitcher’s fastball. The Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) mission seeks to identify the nearest sources these extremely energetic particles.

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Global Temperature Report: February 2013 – Global average temperature anomalies that jumped almost three tenths of a degree Celsius from December 2013 to January 2013, fell by more than three tenths through February, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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A critical instrument on a mission to the sun is being tested after development by a partnership between The University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).

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Global Temperature Report: January 2013.

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A new platform to support and extend the viability of proteins for scientific study has been developed through work done as part of the doctoral studies of a recent University of Alabama in Huntsville doctoral graduate.

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By bringing nanophotonics technology to traditional optical spectroscopy, a new kind of optical spectrometer with functions of sensing and spectral measurement has been recently demonstrated by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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Work done in part by The University of Alabama has enabled a group of solar scientists to see into the sun’s corona in unprecedented detail.