Uncategorized

  1. Health & Medicine

    Tracking down an emerging disease

    By examining geographic patterns of outbreaks of a disfiguring skin disease in tropical nations, scientists are finding tentative clues about how the ailment spreads.

    By
  2. Earth

    . . . and churn up big waves, too

    As Hurricane Ivan approached the U.S. Gulf Coast last September, sensors detected the largest wave ever measured by instruments.

    By
  3. Earth

    A hurricane can dump a lot of rain . . .

    Hurricanes can drop enormous amounts of precipitation in a short amount of time, a phenomenon that residents of Puerto Rico experienced in spades when Hurricane Georges struck the island in 1998.